«Management of a pharmaceutical organization» – practical communicative lectures in English

Abstract

The conditions of the modern pharmaceutical market determine a number of additional requirements to the list of professional competencies of pharmaceutical employees who must be fluent in key aspects of management, search for new active substances, pharmaceutical development, preclinical and clinical studies, registration, as well as marketing and post-marketing research. Taking into account a rather wide and specific range of tasks of the pharmaceutical industry, today there is an urgent need to improve the training of future international-level pharmaceutical specialists with a focus on a more complete realization of their personal potential. The aim of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed methodology of a new format of training a special discipline in a foreign language at a non-linguistic pharmaceutical university. The paper presents the content and structure of the discipline Management in Pharmacy in a foreign language (English), as well as the features of the students groups formation and approaches to teaching, including the provision of materials in accordance with the level of language proficiency of students. The key points of interaction with residents for more efficient work and increasing their motivation in the educational process have been identified. The methodology for effective training of theoretical material in the discipline Management in Pharmacy was developed on the basis of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education SPCFU of the Ministry of Health of Russia, which combines the simultaneous study of theory and the possibility of practicing a foreign language. This method was called practical communicative lectures. The methodology was tested on university residents in the first term of the 2021-2022 academic year. Evaluation of the results of preliminary and final testing shows that absolutely all the students who took part in the experiment have improved their level of English proficiency. This indicates the high effectiveness of the course and methodology for the practice of a foreign language in terms of listening, speaking and reading of professional literature, as well as reducing the language barrier.