Integration of Stylistics and Rhetoric in the Practice of Using Case Study Technology in Teaching Future Doctors Patient-Centric Communication

This article focuses on the problems of the methodology for the formation of linguo-rhetorical competence among medical students. The material represents the relevance of the issues of training for professional communication. Patient-centered communication has been chosen as a guideline for the process of forming linguo-rhetorical competence. The paper gives an example of the implementation of case study technology, built on the principle of integrating stylistics and rhetoric, into the process of communicative training of future doctors. The factors of efficiency of this technology application are presented. The article shoes the importance of combining linguistic and rhetorical approaches in the training of specialists whose work is related to mastering words. 
 