SPEECH CULTURE AS A COMPONENT OF PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNICATIVE TRAINING OF FUTURE MEDICAL SPECIALISTS.

 The article examines the problem of forming a speech culture among medical students in the context of professionally oriented Russian language teaching. The starting point of the study is the critical position that the traditional model of language training, based primarily on the assimilation of terminology and grammatical structures, is insufficient to prepare the future doctor for real communicative interaction with the patient. The purpose of the work is to substantiate and test a set of modern methods aimed at developing the professional and speech competence of first-year medical students. For three months, an AI simulator of the doctor-patient dialogue, speech simulators with feedback, clinical speech scenarios, genre tasks and elements of the AXIS format were used in the educational process. The results showed that these methods contribute to the development of coherent oral speech, improve the accuracy of medical formulations, develop skills of empathic explanation and a conscious choice of speech strategies. However, the study is of a pilot nature and requires further quantitative verification. The scientific significance of the work consists in considering the culture of speech as an integrative component of the professional training of a future doctor, and not as an auxiliary section of a language course.