SPECIAL ASPECTS OF OVERSEAS STUDENTS’ ADAPTATION AT A MEDICAL HIGHER SCHOOL

The process of the overseas students’ adaptation at the beginning of their study at a higher school is quite complicated and multifaceted. There are a few reasons at the basis of this phenomenon: difference in ideology and education, language and social barriers, etc. At the medical university, the main reasons are accompanied with the specifics of the teaching process which employs cadavers, and this fact, in its turn, affects seriously the entire educational process. It is connected with a different religious confession and religious commitment of the students. As a result, the abundance of news aspects in the student’s life and, therefore, increased physical activity and mental work load may cause stress and fatigue that influences immensely the quality of the educational process. The paper describes special aspects of pedagogical communication and modes of behaviour, which should be used by a teacher in the process of teaching the overseas students. The authors present the ways and methods employed by the teaching staff of the department of general human anatomy at Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University to solve the issues of adaptation process intensification, which can facilitate the university students’ adaptation to the new educational environment. Among all the methods, the most efficient is a specific organization of the educational process, based on the improvement of ways of educational material presentation, as well as the use of “supportive” educational technologies. One of the important moments of the process is to introduce students to scientific and historical values of the Russian anatomical school, expansion of scientific outlook, which can serve a good motivational basis for the students.