At the Department of Philosophy and Foreign Languages of Shupyk National University of Healthcare of Ukraine, the 2nd year PhD students of intramural studies attending full-time and part-time English Upper-Intermediate educational programmes have successfully completed the training course in obtaining language competence by improving their English proficiency across all skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing) acquired during 240 academic hours.
The program objectives are as follows: 1) developing and improving the students’ skills in monological speech by using extended functional vocabulary, medical in particular, training them to present clearly focused information and points of view ; 2) developing and improving the students’ skills in dialogic speech by using extended functional vocabulary, in particular medical vocabulary, and acquired grammatical constructions; 3) improving the students’ communicative competence necessary for effective communication in a professional medical environment at international conferences, seminars, meetings; 4) improving the students’ skills for writing abstracts, reports, annotations, summarizing themes and analyzing medical texts and specialized articles outside their field; 5) improving students’ comprehension in listening of English texts.
The postgraduate educational programmes, developed by the teachers of foreign languages at the Department, are aimed at enhancing communicative competence level of English which enables PhD students to carry out their professional and research activities more efficiently.