Past Experience in the Formation Communication Skills of Future Doctors: «Knowing the Past a Doctor Should to Foresights the Future»

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the experience of forming and strengthening the motivation of future specialists in the field of primary health care, prevention and rehabilitation through the formation and using of topical content of aphorisms of the great philosophers and doctors of ancient times. The urgency and scale of the problems of reforming the medical sector and medical education persist for many years. The latest high-tech and expensive methods of teaching are supplemented by classical teaching methods with the appropriate professional level of scientific and pedagogical teams. Professional success, in addition to knowledge, skills and clinical skills, is based on the communicative skills that highlight the attitude of the future doctor to the chosen profession. It’s not necessary to look for new words to prove the role of communication skills. Specially selected statements of the most authoritative specialist – the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, which were exhaustively formulated in the fourth century BC, amaze by their persuasiveness. We recommend to use the topical content of the aphorisms of the great doctors and philosophers as an additional pedagogical method for optimizing the training of students to perform their practical work in the clinic.