THE DEFINITION OF EFFECTIVENESS OF FUTURE DOCTORS’ SPEECH CULTURE

Improvement of professional education quality of future doctors, in accordance with new Government Standards, require to develop future doctors’ speech culture, as an integral part of personal and professional culture. Analysis of the definitions “speech”, “culture”, “professional culture”, “communicative culture”, “speech culture” makes it possible to consider professional speech culture as an integrative personal quality, based on the complex of standards, theoretical and practical skills, referred to medicine, that makes professional communication process successful. The meaning “professional speech culture” is composed of structural (cognitive and professional) and functional (normative, professionally-communicative and personality oriented) components.

The definition of the process of development of medical college students’ speech culture is interrelated with formal revision of the content and structural elements of this notion. It requires to detach criteria and parameters in order to determine the level of future doctors’ speech culture.

As the criteria were chosen: normative, professionally-communicative and personality oriented components of cognitive activity. As a result we have three levels of medical students speech culture: advanced level (productive), medium level (reproductive), low level (acceptable). The usage of these criteria helps to detect changes in development of speech culture of medical college students, during all their educational period.