[Ways of developing economy-related thinking in future physicians at medical institutes]

Highlighted are the problems of economic education of medical students. For the organization of such training it is proposed to introduce a programme of continuous education of medical students in health care economics carried out by the 1st I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Institute. The programme has been prepared on the basis of an original procedure of drawing up continuous programmes. Activity-associated approach to the learning process and its systematization serves as the basis for the proposed technique. In general the programme represents a system of educational aims in economic training developed from the generalized final aim by specialty through general aims of groups of subjects (hygienic, clinical, biomedical, etc.) to specific aim of a separate subject. The aims are determined by knowledge and skills. The final aim of economic training in medical institutes is defined as development of students' skills to determine and appraise economic efficacy of public health facilities involving the work of separate health workers, the activity of entire health care establishments and the state in general. The programme regulates general aims of groups of subjects but also leaves some freedom for choosing the subjects and the means of their mastering. The subjects' aims are presented as examples of problems to be solved by students. The programme introduction requires no extra schedule time since the solution of problems in economics needs only a few minutes. Thus the study of health economics in medical institutes can be significantly intensified.