Филологические науки/7. Язык, речь,
речевая коммуникация
Татосян
Ш.Т., старший преподаватель кафедры иностранных языков
Карагандинский
государственный медицинский университет, Казахстан Алшынбекова З.А., студентка группы 1-002 «Биология»
Карагандинский
государственный медицинский университет, Казахстан
ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN
MEDICAL COMMUNITY
As the statistics
shows most of modern medical universities’ students ask themselves this question.
Urgency of this theme lies in the fact that, according to the research, 63% of
respondents don’t suppose learning English to be important, including 48% who
suppose the English language to be a school subject that doesn’t have any
important influence on professional training of medical workers.
Today in the
world community English is an international language, despite of attempts of
some countries to create a group with their own common language. On an example
of Kazakhstan it is obvious that a specialist who speaks Kazakh can be hired
easily in the motherland, the one who speaks Russian can be hired in countries
of CIS, English speaking specialist can get a job in any place of the world.
Even this lets us conclude that the English language plays an important role in
the process of teaching students, planning study or work abroad.
Moreover, there
is another fact to take into account: intensive integrating of our country in
the world community, which already has the results and causes necessity to
study the international language. Let’s have a good look at the following
example: rather successful graduate of a medical university got job at one of
the clinics in the capital city. In this situation it is important to remember
the fact that the most part of international events are held in the capital.
So, there is a chance for the representatives of other countries or tourists
who don’t speak Russian to need help of a local doctor. Taking into account
long flights, acclimatization and time difference, health problems at foreign
citizens are rather logical thing that can happen to them. In this case there
is no need to explain that knowing English language and ability to communicate
without an interpreter influence on practice of this doctor and his/her career
as well.
Also English
language gives an obvious advantage to medical workers who deal with
pharmaceuticals, since new effective medicines worked out recently are supplied
from abroad. Naturally, all manuals, description of the way a medicine works,
its composition and other urgent information is given in English and the
language of producing country. If a medical worker doesn’t speak the latter, he
has an opportunity to read doubled information in international language. So,
if a doctor speaks the international language, it is much easier to order this
medicine or study its influence on a body of a patient before prescribing.
Apart from
medicines, erratic level of technical development of the countries should be
taken into consideration. For instance, in some countries not all clinics have
a computerized tomographic system or a rheograph. The question of qualified
medical equipment is rather urgent in the most cities and towns of the country;
besides, Kazakhstan doesn’t produce medical equipment independently. As a
result, almost all equipment in our hospitals is either imported or left from
the time of Soviet Union. Usually there aren’t any problems with equipment
supplied by CIS, but in the cases of ordering western medical equipment an
awkward situation can take place – a machine doesn’t work at all or it is used
rarely. The reason is usually the same – unawareness of a foreign language and
principle of work of this machine. Unfortunately, the existence of this problem
is obvious and it raises urgency of a foreign language study on the school
stage and its detailed learning at university.
Almost all
students continue learning the English language in the first year of Medical
University, but by the end of their study achieved skills are usually lost.
This is connected with the fact that the main medical disciplines need more
attention of a student in the reason of their importance and difficulty while
getting medical education. But in the fourth year when it’s time to choose
further specialization, the most students dream about study abroad at the
leading European and American clinics.
Exactly then
appears the necessity of knowledge of the English language. It’s rather obvious
that the lost time never comes back and language skills are lost as well and
it’s impossible to become fluent in any language in short terms; therefore the
most graduates, who want to apply for study abroad, are excluded from the list
of volunteers. But those who keep learning English in spite of anything have a
real opportunity to continue their study abroad. Moreover, the president of our
country supports an idea of English learning and in our sovereign country a
student is given a chance to get Master’s Degree and pass residency in English
speaking countries. As a result, this allows a graduate to get qualified
education abroad and s/he has an opportunity to improve skills of the chosen
profession; that is really important to a future doctor. A doctor can take part
in international conferences and symposiums with his/her reports and master
classes as well as his/her foreign colleagues.
To sum up, it is
true to come to the conclusion about the great role of the English language in
the process of study at all universities and medical one particularly.
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