[Methodological trend in the teaching of pathological anatomy]

On the basis of fundamental concepts of the materialist dialectics and principles of morphological determinism the methodological analysis of the morphofunctional relations in normal and pathological conditions is given, the key concepts of native theory of pathology are presented. The erroneous philosophical concepts (mechanistic determinism and conditionalism , empirism and positivism ) are evaluated critically. The authors, using concrete examples, give the leading principles and the most important forms of teaching at the pathology departments of medical institutes. The necessity of educating in students the habits of independent decisions in the most complex problems of pathology, the formation of the qualitatively new, populationist style of scientific thinking and proper methodological position is grounded.