FORMATION OF READINESS OF FOREIGN STUDENTS-PHYSICIANS FOR THE INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

The article deals with the problem of professional training of foreign students in Ukraine. Special attention is paid to the formation of intercultural communication. The term "readiness" appeared in experimental psychology in the 70s of the last century, but is still debatable. Scientists have differently interpreted the essence of this phenomenon (as a special mental condition that involves the mobilization of all forces of the individual to perform certain actions. Readiness serves as an important prerequisite for the efficiency of future professional activity; as a property of the individual, as a combination of specialized knowledge and skills that contribute to the ability to perform certain activities at a high level; complicated personal formation that has its own laws of existence and development; necessary precondition for the start of activities). The readiness of foreign students-physicians for intercultural communication is individual and professional necessity, because the success of their study, professional activity and satisfaction with the results of their own work largely depends on it. The readiness of foreign students-physicians for intercultural communication can be defined as a personal state, which provides for the subject an image, structure of an action, and constant focus of minds on its successful implementation. It includes various kinds of reasons, focused on understanding the tasks, likely behaviour patterns, constructed in accordance with the available knowledge, the definition of special methods, assess their capabilities in correlation with possible future difficulties and the need to achieve some positive results. The structure of readiness usually includes the following elements: psychological readiness, theoretical readiness, practical readiness (in some cases we can also talk about the physiological and physical readiness). In the context of our study psychological readiness implies a positive motivation to communicate in multicultural space. Theoretical readiness is characterized by the existence of the necessary system of knowledge about intercultural communication. Practical readiness means formation of special skills for intercultural communication.