Perception of medical terms by foreign students

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of teaching medical terminology, the problems of perception of medical terms. On the example of the experiment, we first studied the influence of the ways of perceiving special vocabulary, depending on the type of personality. Our experiment involved first-year students of the Astrakhan State Medical University, studying in an intermediary language. As a result of the analysis, we found that the medical terms studied by first-year students often function in their minds in a distorted form, since they are based on associations, feelings and require explanation not only in an intermediary language, but also a more accurate interpretation. Depending on the types of personality, there are also different ways of perception, but together they create a harmonious and holistic picture of the world. A variety of teaching aids and a set of various types of exercises help develop such important cognitive processes as memory and imagination, and, consequently, develop all channels of perception.