title: [Basic trends in general human pathology and principles of its teaching in higher medical education].
abstract: The paper considers the current trends in the development of biological and medical sciences: their subject, tasks, methods, and place of General Human Pathology among other subjects, its value for the clinical discipline. It defines and analyzes the most topical and disputable directions of General Human Pathology, primarily including those which form the bases for the pathology theory. Arguments are advanced for the necessity of introducing the subject General Pathology of Man into the curriculum of higher medical educational establishments at various faculties. Consideration is given to the specific features of this subject teaching at the faculty training researchers and research pedagogical personnel, at the Pharmaceutical and Higher Nurse Training Faculties of the I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy. A proposal is given to consider and to discuss the most important problems of General Pathology and its teaching, which are listed in the paper.
authors.forename: N K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Khitrov
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Sarkisov
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Romadanova
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010336:Pathology / Q000193:education* / Q000639:trends*; D012426:Russia