EPONYMOUS TERMS IN MEDICAL GENETICS

Abstract

Reforming of higher medical education in Ukraine requires reconsidering of existing learning technologies and tools as well as creating the approaches meeting up-to-date demands in order to improve the professional training of highly qualified specialists who can compete in the global medical services market. Medical biology is one of the fundamental biomedical disciplines aimed at familiarizing students with concepts about the basic laws of functioning of living beings at all organizational levels. The knowledge students have gained when studying this discipline is of great practical importance, since theoretical material is associated with a range of clinical disciplines. Modern textbooks, manuals, dictionaries of scientific terms in medical biology contains many eponymous terms. These terms are also used in international publications. The eponymous terms are widely common in biology, anatomy, histology, cytology, embryology, physiology that enables to develop interdisciplinary integral relationships and contributes to the formation of a scientific worldview. The knowledge of these names and their appropriate usage even at the beginning of the special training of future doctors leads to an increase in the intellectual level, contributes to a deeper understanding of the scientific foundations of disciplines through the mastering professional terminology and the language of specialists. The clear perception of eponymous names from different branches of medicine is important for doctors of any speciality. This will facilitate their professional growth through communication with colleagues, help in working with special scientific literature, and stimulate the need for self-education and self-improvement. Eponymous terms are difficult to remember, difficult to transcribe and transliterate, but they help preserve traditions and history, glory the names of scientists and doctors who have made invaluable contributions to the development of medicine. The purpose of the publication is to analyze and highlight the role of eponymous terms that are used through the course of medical biology, in particular, the section of medical genetics, to focus on the structural features of these terminological units.