Modern standards of teaching the course «Care for surgical patients» presuppose the presence of high competition among the teaching staff and practical focus on the formation of clinical thinking of students. Unfortunately, students are not fully familiar with the nuances of applying the theoretical information offered in the course, in practice. To form the full competence of the future specialist, it is important to study the main objectives of the course and teachers could use methods of teaching the discipline that. Examples given of the use of foreign experience, for example, the study of screening systems to determine the patient’s satisfaction with the quality of the medical services provided. Prospects for the study are based on the introduction of additional practical exercises and the observance of existing medical and ethical standards, regulated by the laws of Russia. Attention is focused on the main disciplines studied in the medical college, examining the mental and psychological health of the patient, as well as the ability of medical students to visually identify and fix the patient’s state of the department of surgery. As methods of research, practical experience in teaching, information from domestic and foreign colleagues is taken as a basis, which together forms the tasks and subjects of the course.