[Ways of improving chemical training of students at medical institutes]

The paper considers how to extend medical students' knowledge and to provide chemical education within the framework of routine curricula. For this, the paper proposes that the view of regarding general chemistry as chemistry of elements should be given up and that the first part of the routine course of general chemistry should be supplemented with aspects of general inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry, that course of biological organic chemistry should contain chemistry of cell elements, as generally accepted in the world, obviating its irrespective issues of general organic chemistry. The results of introducing the approaches in question into teaching practice at the author-headed Department of Medical Chemistry, Therapeutical Faculty, Tyumen Medical Institute are given.