Kozachenko Y. Organizational-Pedagogical Bases of Communicative Culture Formation of Medical Colleges Students in Great Britain and the USA

The thesis is devoted to the the organizational and pedagogical bases of communicative culture formation of medical colleges students in Great Britain and the USA and the possibilities of creative use of American and British progressive experience in the context of the research problem in Ukraine. The theoretical bases and historical stages of the organizational and pedagogical bases of students' communicative culture in medical colleges in the UK and the USA are outlined. It is found out that communicative culture is seen as a social phenomenon and the component of person's development in the national scientific thought. Communicative culture is considered in the context of the organizational theory in the foreign research and is defined as strict norms and rules of corporate ethics. It is proved that this category is often replaced with the concepts of "communicative skills" and "communicative ability" in the medical vocabulary of Great Britain and the USA. It is determined that communicative culture formation is a complex process of person's development of communicative qualities, communicative knowledge, abilities and skills with the aim of realization them at practice. The normative bases of students' communicative culture in medical colleges in the UK and the USA are characterized. The official documents were analyzed for forming measures and syllabuses that are directed with the aim of increasing the quality of students' communicative culture in order to outline the normative principles of students' communicative culture formation in medical colleges in the UK and the USA. The skills of interpersonal communication, effective interaction with the patient which is based on humane attitude and communicative skills are common to both countries. The content bases of students' communicative culture in medical colleges of the UK and the USA are overviewed. The procedural bases for the development of students' communicative culture in medical colleges of Great Britain and the USA are explored. The state educational standards, curriculum and plans of medical colleges in Great Britain and the United States were analyzed to summarize the content and procedural bases of student's communicative culture. It is approved that common to both countries is the combination of high-quality clinical training with communicative one, that is aimed at communicative motivation formation and humanistic values, mastering communicative skills, techniques of verbal and nonverbal communication, the development of communicative independence, critical thinking and leadership qualities of a medical worker. The procedural bases (strategies, principles, forms, approaches, methods and means) of communicative culture formation of medical students in the UK and the USA are analyzed. It is proved that procedural bases of the development of students' communicative culture in medical colleges of Great Britain and the USA are common. The possibilities of creative use of American and British progressive experience in the context of the research problem in Ukraine are revealed.