THE BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD AS A MEANS OF FORMING THE PROFESSIONAL PERSONALITY AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY OF THE FUTURE DOCTOR (as exemplified by the integration of the study of human anatomy and the disciplines of the foreign language training cycle)

The biographies of 20th-century U.S. physician-writers as an educational resource for medical students

“…In the short story "The Surgeon as Priest" (collection "Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery" (1976), a key place belongs to the portrait of Andreas Vesalius, a Flemish doctor of the 16th century, the founder of scientific anatomy, who was one of the first to start performing autopsies in order to the study of the human body 17,18 . Vesalius' facial expression at the moment of the autopsy prompts the narrator to reflect on the sacred and secretive nature of the profession of a doctor who literally gains access to the patient's inner world: 19 "I understand you, Vesalius.…”