Assessment of the communicative competence development of morphological departments’ teachers at Zaporizhzhia State Medical University

Background. The communicative component of the pedagogical style inevitably reflects the general and pedagogical culture of the educator and his professionalism. In connection with the increasing requirements in society for the training of specialists, the need for the development of the communicative abilities of the teacher as a component of education, teaching methods and the achievement on this basis of a new quality of the results of professional education is actualized. Objective: to identify and assess the level of communicative competence of the teaching staff of the morphological departments of ZSMU. Methods: employee questioning and surveys. Results: the indicators of the scales that contribute to the successful communication of teachers and are the most favorable for building interpersonal communication (social and communicative clumsiness, intolerance to uncertainty, striving for status growth, frustration intolerance) are the least expressed in percentage terms, which indicates ease of communication. The highest percentage is observed on the scale "Intolerance to Uncertainty" which was 15.0 ± 4.3 in total. The best indicators on the scale "Frustration intolerance", "Excessive striving for conformity", "Orientation on avoiding failures" indicate that the communicative activity of teachers is at a high level, they easily make direct contact with others, they are very easy to induce to talk. Conclusion: the data obtained indicate a high level of communicative competence of the teaching staff of the morphological departments of ZSMU. Small deviations from the norm can be triggered by the transition to distance learning and the difficulties of adapting to it, especially among older teachers.