THE SATISFACTION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS WITH SOCIAL CULTURAL SUPPORT IN THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

: During education in medical university, foreign students are to adapt both to educational and social cultural environments. The study was organized to investigate satisfaction of foreign students with complex of activities concerning social cultural support in one of medical university of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The study was carried out in the state medical university of city of Semeii of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The sampling of questionnaire survey consisted of 225 students of medical faculty and 87 out of them were foreign students. The statistical processing of data was implemented using SPSS v.20.0 software. The work of supervising professor became the most useful measure of social cultural support from point of view of both foreign and resident students (93.1 and 77.4% correspondingly). The round-table discussion related to struggle with religious extremism and terrorism was considered as the least useful measure of such kind of support (24.1% and 28.5% correspondingly). Out of planned measures of social cultural support, 81.6% of foreign and 30.7% of resident students showed preference to additional courses of Kazakh and/or Russian languages. The usefulness of such supposed measure as establishment and maintenance of contact with parents was supported by 81.6% of foreign and 30.7% of resident students. The social cultural support provided to foreign students in one of medical university of the Republic of Kazakhstan is in general satisfactory though requires certain development. the university is to re- consider plan of activities implemented with purpose of social cultural support by renouncing of the least called-for and focusing on the most required instead.