Aleksei L. Obornev

the authors consider the competency-based approach in high medical education which requires a revision of methods and technological elements to teaching hygiene at the medical faculty as the basis for the preventive medicine implementation.

legislative and organizational provision of mass diseases prevention in the Russian Federation is analysed in the article. The qualitative model of this work has been developed based on the theory of functional systems. Recommendations for improvement of the higher medical education are given.