In pursuance of the TUP in the specialty “General Medicine”, according to GOSO-2006, for the 3rd year students a Working Curriculum “Features of childhood” from the 2015-16 school year has been developed. Within the framework of this program, the Elective “Practical Objective Examination of Children” has been approved for 54 hours. This elective is a Required Component, demanded by students over the past two years. According to the analysis of the digestibility and survival of knowledge on “propaedeutics of childhood diseases” among students at the Department of Children’s Diseases, it showed that the possession of practical skills in physical examination, according to Dublin Descriptors, is 78-82% (analysis of the session for 2015).
In the 2018-2019 academic year, a sufficient number of hours in the educational process for the discipline “Features of the child’s body” and the elective “AFF for children at different age periods” (from newborn to adolescent) were allocated for the analysis of semiotics, syndromes and patterns of development of pathology in children, etc. e. directly propaedeutics of childhood diseases. This formulation of the educational process in the third year will allow students to begin practical activities with sufficient knowledge of children’s AFO and the manual skills of examining children in each age period. So, 3rd year students in the specialty “GM” “IMF” and the newly opened pediatric faculty pass: discipline “Features of the child’s body” with final control – stage 2 exam, including testing and interviewing; elective “Practical skills of objective examination of children” with the final control – stage 2 exam, including testing and interviewing.