Foreign language as a development tool of professional competence in the modern medical education

The article deals with the problem of forming the professional competence of medical specialists and the role of a foreign language in this process. In modern conditions of the challenges facing health care, the greatest importance is not only the acquisition of knowledge and the development of skills, but the formation of key competencies of future health workers. The article draws attention to the fact that a foreign language as a compulsory academic subject in a medical school has great potential for the development of professionally significant personal qualities of a future doctor.