[Restructuring of teaching of social hygiene and public health administration based on students' opinion]

This is a continuation of the issue discussed in the article by Academician Yu. P. Lisitsyn and assistant Professor L. G. Perekopskaya "On the restructuring of teaching in social hygiene and public health administration" ("Soviet Public Health", 1990, No. 1). 75.6 percent of students from the Rostov Medical Institute participating in the anonymous survey stressed that the training in social hygiene and public health administration should be preceded by fundamental training in clinical subjects which they considered advisable to study during the fifth and sixth year of training. The students considered it necessary to get specialists in applied public health more widely participate in the teaching process. The issues are raised of the status, clinical bases and material and technical supply of chairs of social hygiene and public health administration. It is considered necessary to provide for a series of lectures on social hygiene and public health administration during the sixth year of training. The students displayed a keen interest in the transition of public health services to the new economic mechanism. The students consider it advisable to study the practice of developed countries in the field of population's health protection. An issue is raised of the necessity to integrate the teaching of social hygiene and public health administration with clinical chairs.