The article deals with interpretation of terminological concepts of tutoring as effective methods of educational process individualization. Changes in learning models contribute to expansion of teacher’s role, who serves not only as educator, but also provides pedagogical support of individual curricula for the learners are characterized in this article. Tutoring covers these tasks and the tutor is a co-developer of academic projects and programs, an advisor in education services, combining the roles of a mentor and developer of educational schemes. The main stages of tutoring origin in the context of historical development are clarified. It is emphasized that the implementation of tutoring is an integral aspect of individualization of education in medical schools and is carried out by mastering the ability to motivate educational and pedagogical activities of students. Attention is placed on the need to analyse various methods and approaches to the implementation of tutoring trends in the educational process. The most important criteria of educational process, created by the tutor and student are examined: implementation of the successful tutorial support of training, formation of the personality and lifestyle of the future specialist; multiplicity and variability of educational proposals satisfaction; design and implementation of an individual educational and training program. The basic skills necessary for valuable professional activity are characterized: the formation of fundamental methodological knowledge and the ability to apply them in the process of professional activity; the ability to deal with pedagogical problems and perform tasks in the methodology of teaching subjects in higher educational institutions; mastering of strategies for the implementation and using of information and communication technologies in the educational process; ability to design and project activity; skills to motivate learning activity; ability to manage project activities of students; motivation for continuous self-education and self-improvement.

The article deals with interpretation of terminological concepts of medical specialists’ communicative culture in the context of foreign language communication. The essence of speech culture is clarified, which is an important component of the professional profile of a future healthcare worker. It is emphasized that the formation of foreign language competence of a medical student is an integral aspect of professionally oriented education in medical institutions of higher educationand is carried out by mastering the features of communicative culture.Emphasis is placed on the need to analyze various methods and approaches to the formation of communicative culture in students with different levels of knowledge and skills. The issues of content and efficiency of the process of foreign language communicative competenceformation, selection of educational material, development of communicative component in the process of students’ mastering the basics of communication culture, modeling of foreign language communicationphenomena, analysis of speech situations are examined.The basic skills necessary for valuable professional activity are characterized; the principles of formation of future specialists’ communicative culture during studying of foreign languages are considered (humanization, individualization and differentiation, variability, emotional expressiveness, competence, coherence and continuity); the need to learn vocabulary for the correct formulation of the statement is emphasized; the main dominants of communicative culture (emotional, cognitive and behavioral components) are outlined. It is proposed to structure the formation of students’ speech culture in directions that involve the development of emotional, cognitive and behavioural components. It was found that the terminological vocabulary of the communicative culture of the future specialist covers the concepts of individual-personal component, motivational-volitional, social-communicative and speech activities, which complement each other in professional activity.

The paper points out the speci cs of medical students' professional culture formation, analyses its components and conditions. The experience of virtual training programme use in Latin classes for medical students is summarized. Development of professional culture is sure to enrich the man's inner world, as well as to contribute to his (her) professional development and personal self-improvement. Any person reveals himself (herself) most vividly while interacting with the others in performing professional duties, the outcomes often depending on the proper conduct, speaking, hearing, and language.Training of future medical professionals is an element of professional education and is aimed at providing specialists with a certain level of professional skills alongside with the formation of proper professional qualities and development of general personal culture. Medical educational institutions are supposed to provide future specialists with adequate amount of knowledge, necessary for the work in their eld and to make them aware of their professional perspectives and able to in uence the process actively and effectively. It is in this aspect that the professional culture is involved, that is demeanour, speaking, hearing, and language matching the generally accepted standards and principles, primarily moral, and the requirements set to the particular profession.Professional culture of the future medical workers is not the sum of professional knowledge, abilities, and skills only, but a part of general spiritual culture that manifests itself in professional competence, readiness for analysis and evaluation of professional and ethical issues, decision-making, communicative skills, as well as conscious striving for self-education, self-development, and constant professional self-perfection. Formation of medical students' professional culture is a "teacher-student" indissoluble connection based on humanism, creative activity, and common search for new goals and tasks, which increase future specialists' motivation to attain new peaks in the professional activity.Key words: culture; professional culture; formation of professional culture; medical students.Анотація. У статті вказано на особливості формування професійної культури студентів-медиків, проаналізовано компоненти професійної культури та умови її формування. Узагальнено досвід використання віртуальної навчальної програми на заняттях з латинської мови у студентів-медиків. Зазначено, що розвиток професійної культури внутрішньо збагачує людину і сприяє її професійному становленню та особистісному самовдосконаленню. Найбільш яскраво людина виявляється у діяльності з іншими під час виконання професійних обов'язків. Від культури поведінки, говоріння, слухання та мови часто залежать результати професійної діяльності.Підготовка майбутніх медиків є складовою професійної освіти і спрямована на забезпечення фахівців певним рівнем професійної майстерності, формування у них відповідних професійних якостей з одночасним розвитком загальної культури особистості. Завдання навчальн...

Abstract. The article analyses scientists’ views on the specifics and structure of medical students’ foreign language communicative competence. The researchers have been found to interpret differently this concept and its content, the latter containing from 3 to 6 components according to the data of various scholars. A concept of foreign language communicative activity is described in the article. Today, the ongoing reforms in the society call for the formation of comprehensively developed competent doctors, possessing high level of professional language and capable of revealing professionalism in business communication situations. In this regard, changes in the approach to future doctors’ foreign language training are on the agenda. Therefore, solution of the challenge of developing language capacity and forming foreign language communicative competence in future doctors is very important. Foreign language communicative competence is essential for training advanced specialists in view of the further use of knowledge, abilities, skills, and personal qualities gained in the foreign language environment as well as for providing multilingual, multicultural, and interpersonal communication. Formation of foreign language communicative competence has been found to include the knowledge of a language, sufficient to meet professional needs, implementation of one’s business contacts, and further professional self-education and self-improvement. It has been found that foreign language communicative competence includes discursive, strategic, and reflective components which are interactive, complementary, and functioning as a unified system.

The article reveals the role and importance of the project method of Latin teaching; to represent the sample of the project “Latin and Greek medical terminology and their corresponding national equivalents in English”. The basic terminology competence of medical students is formed in Latin lessons because Latin vocabulary is used in Anatomy, Histology, Chemistry, Biology, as well as further clinical disciplines. Thus, the principle of close interdisciplinary integration helps students better understand the nature of the anatomical, histological, pharmaceutical, and clinical terms. Project-based learning to teach Latin and Greek medical terminology contributes training in logical thinking, boosting cognitive processes essential for medicine, and causes the development of research and creative skills of medical students, the ability to independently construct their knowledge, navigate the information space and think critically. It has been found that the use of project learning combined with all necessary elements of co-operating training of future medical workers greatly facilitates their creative training, development of communicative skills and contributes to independent decision-making. The efficient using project-based learning to teach Latin and Greek medical terminology in higher medical educational institutions in combination with conventional teaching and technical support provides the highest quality of the educational process.