Regulatory and methodological issues of hygienic assessment of medical university curriculum

Abstract

The article presents the results of the analysis of the regulatory framework and the hygienic assessment of the study schedule of 1st year students of the medical and preventive faculty of Omsk State Medical University, carried out on the basis of the current regulatory documents of the sanitary service, the developed scale of difficulty of academic disciplines (based on the results of a survey of 348 students of 1–6 courses) and using new methodological techniques for hygienic assessment of the compliance of the schedule with the dynamics of weekly work capacity and the uniformity of the educational load during the school week. The data obtained indicate the need to expand the hygienic regulatory framework for the organization of the educational process at the university, especially for students under the age of 18. Compliance with the mandatory hygienic requirements of the training schedule was established. The high duration of the weekly total educational load was noted, there are comments regarding the correspondence of the schedule to the dynamics of a person's daily and weekly work capacity.