DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF THE FUTURE PHYSICIAN AS COMPLETE OF ITS PROFESSIONAL READINESS

The essence of communicative competence of the future doctor as one of the important components of his professional readiness is considered. The possibilities of its development in the process of educational and non-initial activity of the student of a medical institution of higher education from the standpoint of the environmental approach are determined, the actual directions of research of this phenomenon are outlined. The readiness of future doctors for professional activity is considered as a complex multilevel entity, which manifests itself as a person's compliance with the requirements for certain activities, and availability of readiness for activities is a prerequisite for the implementation of the activity itself.The communicative competence of the future physician implies the assimilation of the  rules and norms of oral and written language, the ability to use them in various life-professional situations. It is communicative competence - one of the basic characteristics of the professional competence of medical specialists. Further research requires the communicative competence of a doctor in accordance with the typical situations of communication with patients in the context of a modern organization of medical care in Ukraine.