[Development of a moral consciousness in medical schools]

In the conditions of developed socialism, changes in social consciousness are also reflected in one of its forms - the morals. The problems of moral education as an inseparable part of communist education is coming to the foreground. It plays its role in all the stages of the education system, having its unsubstitutable place also in the conditions of universities and technical colleges, the faculties of medicine not excluding. It is its task to form the personality of the student and graduate, to make them, among others, acquire the moral codex of a builder of communism (habits of moral behaviour in professional activities - medical ethics). Such crucial situations must be found that are of cardinal importance for the formation of the medical student's moral profile (transition from the secondary school to university, entering the clinic, meeting the patient, running health institutions, positive and negative influences in the health service). The student must live the moral situation, obtain the experience from moral acting on his own self and be an active participant in the events creating his moral qualities, primarily in collective conditions. We stress the necessity of engagement - mobilisation of students to all-round social activities, connection of the theoretical findings of marxist ethics with their particular problems and actual activities. A special accent is laid on the method of personal example, the moral example of the university teacher himself, in the first place his authority based on all the progressive components of his personality.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)