Communicative competence as an integral component of the doctors’ professional activity

The article deals with the formation of communicative competence in the "doctor-patient" context. The authors determined the most important factor at the stage of diagnosis and treatment as well as the importance of undergraduate stage in the doctors’ professional development. To analyse the relationship of communicative competence and professional success of doctors. In order to confirm the established hypothesis, the authors used a sociological survey method based on the developed questionnaire questionnaire for doctors. The number of respondents amounted to 97 people. This sample was divided into two groups. The paper provided a comparative assessment of communicative literacy of respondents analysed the importance of communicative competence in the doctors’ professional activity, gave ranking results of communication skills study among doctors. The authors determined the attitude of respondents to the course "Communication skills" and the opinion regarding the necessity of this course within the training cycle, estimated practical use of relevant knowledge and skills, provided by the course, determined the subjective assessment of proficiency in effective communication. The State General Education Standard implies the study of communication skills in the first and second year, 36.0 per cent of all respondents consider that time allocated for this discipline is insufficient. Thus, 46.2 per cent of all men and 56.5 per cent of women use the acquired communication skills for practical purposes.