Interactive and digital teaching methods of international students in communication with patients

The article is dedicated to the analysis of teaching methods contributing to the creation of the optimal conditions for preparing international students for future professional activities, increasing the effectiveness of their communicative behavior in their interaction with colleagues, patients, and their relatives. The authors prepared ways of developing a linguoactive personality, which will be able to solve professional tasks in personalized medicine. Specific teaching methods used in the framework of lessons and their effectiveness are analyzed. The article presents the survey data reflecting the effectiveness assessment of the applied teaching methods from the students' point of view. The article proves the effectiveness of interactive methods creating familiar study conditions for international students, improving cooperation between them and a teacher, and also the need to use informational technologies. A communicative simulator and e-testing of students in the classroom on "Professional Communication" in SSMU named after V.I. Razumovsky are successfully applied. Such digital instruments increase the efficiency of class time using and improve the quality of learning the material and contribute to the consolidation of knowledge and skills. The authors see the further development of teaching methods in the creation of an electronic constructor to provide a wide range of communicative situations that allow correcting and creating dialogue scripts in various systems of medical communication. In the context of the export of educational services, the process of teaching the laws of professional communication requires the development of existing methods and the search for new solutions, some of which are proposed by the authors of the article.