Pedagogical Factors оf English Language Professional Training оf Future Doctors

Abstract

The process of modernization of the higher educational system in Ukraine poses certain requirements to the foreign language (L2) training of future medical specialists at university level. In order to be able to function effectively and efficiently on the job market not only on national, but also on international level, medical students need to possess transversal competences, digital and entrepreneurial skills, as well as mastery in at least one foreign language. With regard to this, the aim of the current article is to present the pedagogical factors and conditions at the heart of interdisciplinary L2 training of the future medical specialists in Ukraine. It provides a theoretical analysis of these two issues and outlines their key role in the L2 teaching and learning process at tertiary level. The article also highlights the main interdisciplinary principles underlying the foreign language preparation of future doctors in the Odessa National Medical University. The shared insights could serve as a trigger to the updating of all foreign language training programmes of English for specific purposes implemented on a national level in Ukrainian higher education institutions.