УДК 371.311.4:[378:616.314-053.2]-057.87

The quality of medical communication with patients is of great importance for diagnosis, treatment, prevention and rehabilitation. Not only the timely detection of the disease, but also the patient’s motivation to maintain health, treatment, etc. depends on the extent to which the doctor has the skills to build effective communication during the provision of medical care. It is not enough for a modern doctor to be competent only in the field of medicine, but also to possess the psychology of communication. This highlights the necessity to develop communicative competence in future doctors while still studying at medical universities. The aim of the article is to consider the communicative competence of future dentists as a basis for effective professional interaction in pediatric dentistry and compliance with pediatric patients.

It is generalized that the process of forming communicative competence of future dentists is an integrated system of functional components and personality properties; a form of expression of subject-subject relations of participants in the interactive and communicative process in solving professional tasks. It is substantiated that the formation of communicative competence of future dentists in medical higher education institutions will contribute: updating the content of communicative 

and psychological and pedagogical training; - wide use of innovative learning technologies; - algorithmicity of stages, consistency and systematicity of the process of forming communicative competence of future dentists; intensification of the process of forming communicative competence based on the immersion of future dentists in an interactive professional and communicative environment; individualization of learning based on the implementation of academic counseling (tutoring), mentoring, coaching, as well as a system of practical tasks aimed at developing all components of communicative competence in medical students.

Keywords: communicative competence; future dentists; professional interaction; pediatric patients; communicative training.