FORMATION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS’ GENERAL CULTURAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES WHILE STUDYING THE DISCIPLINE "LATIN LANGUAGE" (CLINICAL TERMINOLOGY SECTION)

Relevance. The formation of general cultural and professional competencies in the process of professional development and improvement of the personality of a future doctor is one of the fundamental factors of modern medical education. The authors focus attention on the exceptional role of the discipline “Latin language” in the development of a doctor's personality and professional competence. They also highlight the special opportunities of the Latin language for connecting the educational process with the future practical professional activities of students.

Materials and methods. To achieve these goals, the authors used a scientific methodological framework, giving priority to theoretical methods such as definition analysis, synthesis, and comparison, as well as practical research methods such as observation, experiment, and situational modeling.

Results. The authors emphasize the role of clinical terminology in providing students with basic knowledge of the most commonly used clinical terms, which include names of various clinical specialties, symptoms of diseases, methods of their treatment, diagnostics and prevention, surgical techniques, names of devices and instruments, etc. Special attention is given to the ability for conducting structural and semantic analysis of a term, which is the foundation of clinical terminology. The study distinguishes clinical terms by their structure and identifies three groups: unmotivated terms - simple words, terms - phrases, motivated compound terms. Each of these groups has its own grammatical and structural-semantic features, which should be taken into account when introducing this section to the students. They are provided with practical training exercises to prevent possible difficulties in mastering the material in the classroom and to avoid erroneous judgments and interpretations of medical professional vocabulary in the future practical activities. For this purpose, practical tasks have been compiled, where attention is drawn to the combinatoriality of Combining Forms.

Conclusions. Based on the analysis conducted, it can be concluded that complex lexical units are highly frequent in the studied segment of medical terminology, and their semantics are determined by their word-building structure. To ensure the competent and purposeful use of clinical terms in professional practice, students need to acquire knowledge of Greek and Latin root and affi elements, as well as an understanding of term-building models. As a fi result of mastering clinical terminology, students should acquire the skills of structural and semantic analysis of clinical terms, followed by determining their meaning based on the meanings of term elements.

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