Maksim А. Sivakov

The article is devoted to the current problem of the formation of professional identity among medical university students. In modern conditions of intercultural interaction, language training is of particular importance, which contributes to the integration of future doctors into the international professional community and provides access to advanced scientific achievements. Modelling the educational process for the formation of the professional identity of medical university students is an important and complex process, including not only the acquisition of medical knowledge and skills by future doctors, but also the development of their personal qualities such as responsibility, empathy and ethics. The aim of this study is to test the results of solving an applied pedagogical problem – the development of a model for the formation of professional identity of medical university students in the process of language training. The article provides an analysis of the literature on the interpretation of the professional identity of students by domestic and foreign researchers, gives the author's definition of the professional identity of a medical university student, describes a model for the formation of the professional identity of medical university students in the process of language training, representing the process under study as a whole and as a set of interrelated elements that reflect the needs of both the medical field as a whole and the medical university in particular in the training of highly qualified medical specialists. The model consists of six units: target, methodological, content-organizational, procedural, criteria-assessment, correctional ones and it is based on the principles of professional orientation, integrity, interdisciplinary integration, communication and contextuality, functionality of the educational environment. The model has a practical orientation and its implementation in the process of language training gradually forms a professional identity for students of a medical university. The research is based on the ideas of occupational, holistic, integrative activity-oriented, communicative-cognitive and environmental approaches. The provisions of the study can become a theoretical basis for further development of the problem of forming the professional identity of future medical specialists in medical universities in Russia.