Shaping English language academic communicative competence of Doctors of Philosophy in healthcare by distance training methods: review of the problem studies

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of basic studies dedicated to shaping the English language academic communicative competence of the future PhDs in “Healthcare” by distance training methods. The author emphasizes insufficient information coverage of the theme, despite its high urgency. The author defines basic directions of studies: studies of training the future medical PhDs and studies of shaping their academic communicative competence. Another classification of the future medical PhDs training can be classified in the following groups: studies of shaping the scientific research competence in future PhDs, Studies of shapingacademic competence in future PhDs, studies of shaping the pedagogical competence in future PhDs and studies of shaping the professional competence in medical PhDs. The studies of shaping the skills of future research are represented by papers by V.Miniajlo, O.M. Spirin, S. Nikolajeva, who emphasize shaping the research skills of future PhDs as the key training component. The authors stress upon the importance of informational education of future PhDs as the basic components of their training. The article describes the studies of shaping the academic competence within training future PhDs (O. Semenog), dwelling on the modernity of the term. The studies of teaching professional specialized and teaching competences by M. Filonenko and I.Panchenko are dedicated to shaping both the academic and teaching skills during the PhDs training. The significance of academic culture shaping, was studies by several scientists, of which the professional training was covered by V.Lekhan, I.Klishch and L.Lymar. Some Russian scientists studied peculiarities of distance training of the aspirants(postgraduate position in Russia), though they neglect and arrogantly treat this type of education. The article separates basic directions of the studies: studies of teaching the PhDs in “Healthcare” and studies of shaping the academic communicative competence of the last. The author stresses upon the necessity of further qualitative studies of the distance training effectiveness regarding the communicative academic foreign language competence of future medical PhDs.