SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE FACTORS OF ADAPTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FACULTY APPLICANTS TO STUDYING IN POLTAVA STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Abstract

One of the priority tasks of Poltava State Medical University (PSMU) is to provide foreign citizens with educational services aimed at achieving high results of professionally motivated personality of a doctor whose knowledge meets international educational standards and practical training meets the needs of quality medical care. Problems of adaptation of foreign applicants to study in Ukraine are related to their entry into a completely new socio-cultural and educational-cognitive environment. Citizens of Netherlands, United States, Bulgaria, Israel, China, Tunisia, Turkey, Kuwait, and others receive higher medical education at the PSMU. A certain part of applicants is represented by people from CIS countries: Lithuania, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan. The process of adaptation of foreign applicants is represented by a set of properly organized factors of adaptation to the new education system, language of communication, culture and new climatic conditions. The university staff provides assistance to foreign applicants in adaptation to the conditions of study and living in Ukraine, establishing mutual understanding between different national groups, learning about the history and traditions of the Ukrainian people, implementing healthy lifestyles. The combination of linguistic, socio-cultural and psychologico-pedagogical adaptations provides a positive result in the educational process. One of the main adaptations of foreign applicants is linguistic, which is to master the language of the country where you study. Significant work in this direction is carried out by the Department of Ukrainian Studies and Humanitarian Training, where the Ukrainian language is taught in a professional direction and the Ukrainian language as a foreign language. Socio-cultural adaptation is to adapt to the culture, traditions and peculiarities of life of the Ukrainian people, so the PSMU actively presents Ukraine, its history and life of the people. Applicants together with the international dean’s office and group curators take part in the celebration of Ukrainian holidays and in events to raise respect for the cultural and spiritual heritage of the Ukrainian people, its traditions and history of the state. Socio-psychological adaptation means the entry of a foreign applicant in the system of interpersonal relations, establishing relationships in the student group and the formation of personal behavior in it. The university holds events aimed at maintaining moral norms and fostering friendliness between members of different ethnic groups and religious denominations, the formation of interpersonal relationships and behavior in conflict situations. The educational work of the staff of the international faculty, curators and teachers of PSMU is aimed at creating comfortable conditions for successful adaptation of foreign applicants to study and live in Ukraine, mutual understanding between different national groups and implementation of healthy lifestyles in students.

Keywords

• foreign applicants
• adaptation
• educational process.