The role of the Russian language in the professional training of international students of medicine at Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University

The article considers the importance of Russian as a foreign language in the professional training of medical students studying at Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University. The article indicates the importance of cooperation between the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language of the Faculty of Philology and specialized departments of the Medical Institute as an effective tool in linguistic and professional training of international students, future doctors. We present the system of training international medical students from the countries of the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific Regions based on the academic discipline “History of Medicine”. The article describes the joint work of a medical teacher and a teacher of Russian in drawing up a “road map” for teaching Russian to international students who, as a rule, do not speak this language. We recommend the teacher of Russian as a foreign language to use tasks on working with a thematic thesaurus, to expand professionally oriented vocabulary and to develop oral coherent speech, based on adapted educational texts, using modern information technologies. The article concludes that this approach to training enables international medical students to actively participate in the educational process in such forms as: collage compiling on the topics and sections under study, reports on the history of medicine in their countries for participation in the conference “A Week of Youth Science” and in various versions of the business game “Medicine Yesterday and Today”. The methodology presented in the article can be used to create an educational and methodological complex unity that contributes to a more effective teaching of the Russian language to international medical students. Thus, interdepartmental cooperation in teaching the Russian language to international medical students plays an important role in the professional development of future doctors.