Feelings and emotions can be a serious obstacle to communicative success.Тo overcome this obstacle, partners must have adequate emotional and emotive competencies. An emotive training text has a great importance for the formation of emotive competence of students. Literary texts stimulate the addressee's sense-creating activity. In an effort to understand them, students analyze, interpret, “pass” the text through their own personality. The article substantiates the need for the use of literary texts of medical subjects as emotive training texts for students, as they are emotiogenic and actively stimulate the development of empathy and the formation of emotive competence in future doctors. To analyze the emotive training text in the class of Russian as a foreign language, it is proposed to use the method of penetrating study of emotions in the text.