Belarusian and foreign students study at the department of Belarusian and Russian languages.
Main disciplines taught:
- Russian as a foreign language. It is taught for foreign citizens at the stage of pre-university training (preparatory department) and at the advanced stage (1-3 courses of the medical faculty of foreign students).
- Belarusian language: professional vocabulary. It is taught for Belarusian students of the 1st course of the pharmaceutical, 2nd course of the medical, preventive medicine, pediatric, military medical faculties and the 3rd course of the dental faculty.
- Russian language at the preparatory department for citizens of the Republic of Belarus (preparation for centralized testing).
- Belarusian language at the preparatory department for citizens of the Republic of Belarus (preparation for centralized testing).
- Russian language for undergraduates (preparation for the candidate exam in Russian as a foreign language).
The goal of studying the discipline «Russian as a foreign language» is complex, including practical (communicative), educational and upbringing goals, which are in close interaction with the tasks of training doctors for foreign countries. The communicative goal is the leading one and is carried out by developing the necessary language and speech skills in students in reading, listening, speaking and writing, providing them ultimately mastering the specialty, communicating in the Russian language environment (educational and professional, everyday and cultural) and the possibility of using the Russian language upon returning home.
«Belarusian language: professional vocabulary» is an academic discipline, the purpose of which is to familiarize
students with the riches of the national culture, to form a communicatively developed personality who can communicate
in their native language in the professional sphere, translate and abstract professionally oriented and scientific
texts, maintain business documentation, speak with scientific messages and public presentations.