The article is devoted to the study of the possibilities of teaching a foreign language for special purposes within the framework of virtual reality technology and its advantages in comparison with traditional forms of education. The potential features of virtual reality as an ideal educational environment are specified. The pertinence of the study stems from the need to optimize the process of mastering the skills of professional foreign language communication of modern medical students by using virtual reality technology along with traditional training technologies. The aim of this study was to study and analyze the use of existing virtual reality technologies in teaching medical students and to consider the possibility of using them when learning a foreign language. Due to the lack of research base devoted directly to the experience of using virtual reality technology in teaching a foreign language to medical students, methods of description, analysis, and forecasting were used. Currently, there are quite a lot of simulators used in medicine, and although these simulators are not intended directly for learning a foreign language, the authors emphasize that they provide a wide range of opportunities for medical students to immerse themselves in virtual reality to work out professional skills, while actively developing professional communicative foreign-language competence. During various manipulations in virtual reality, you can fully reproduce professional communication in a foreign language, practicing medical terminology and language behavior in an authentic language environment. This theoretical study allows us to conclude that today VR technology can be used in teaching medical students a foreign language at a University. At the moment, these technologies are new, and there are many obstacles to their application in Russian universities, but virtual reality is one of the most promising ways of teaching and learning a foreign language by students of generation Z.