HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

Medical students’ practice diary: compositional content and structure

2022. №3, pp. 49-56

Madzhaeva Sanya I. - Astrakhan State Medical University, Astrakhan, Russia

Epanchina Liliya V. - Astrakhan State Medical University, Astrakhan, Russia

The medical student’s practice diary is characterized as a document. It is a medical type of documents by its content and an educational type by its form and purpose. The purpose of the practice diary is to fix and to transfer information about professional training which aim is to improve the health status of the patient and to use and deepen theoretical knowledge. There are informative, communicative, educational and didactic functions of the diary. In accordance with these functions the vocabulary of the diary is described as special and common. The regularity has been established in the use of terms of certain thematic groups. Thematic group «Things and devices used in the medical institution» is typical for the first and second-year students. The third-year student’s diary includes terms from thematic group «Medical procedures». The fourth- and fifth-year student’s diary demonstrates some thematic variety. They use terms of the thematic groups «Symptoms, diseases», «Diagnosis», «Methods of treatment» and also the abbreviations of Latin terms which indicate the accumulation and development of professional knowledge and formation of the linguistic picture of the world of a medical specialist.

Key words: document, medical document, practice diary, documentary text, term, thematic group, vocabulary

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