Valery N. Tregubov

This article analyzes the experience of organizing and conducting educational work with future doctors at the first Department of Social Hygiene of the Medical Faculty of the First Moscow State University in Russia, which currently bears the name of its creator and its first professor, who was also the first People’s Commissar of Health of the Republic Nikolai Alexandrovich Semashko – the Department of Public health and health care named after N. A. Semashko. With the help of historical, analytical, logical and monographic methods, it was established that until the last decade of the last century, educational work at the department with students had an ideological orientation. Against the background of the changes that have taken place in our country, the approaches to organizing and conducting educational work with future doctors have changed. The main directions of its improvement in the educational organization are to increase the role of the teacher in conducting educational work, creating the necessary conditions for the implementation of the educational process, motivating students to observe a healthy standard of living and ethical principles of the doctor, involving them in the independent study of works of art about the activities of colleagues, timely informing and conducting extracurricular activities with students, etc..