Abstract:
Modern education of medical university students requires a lot of attention to the
presentation of the theory of medical diagnostic thinking. It is impossible to teach a student
only the methods of studying a patient, it is impossible to make him remember those
symptoms and syndromes that correspond only to a particular disease. He needs to be
trained to properly use the results of his methodical work and consciously conduct the
process of clinical thinking. Practical actions on volunteers or on dummies, rather than on
patients, improve the possibility of initial skill acquisition in the full and consistent
development of each stage, then give the opportunity to practice / train until competence is
achieved (automatism and high quality of execution). And only when competence is
achieved, the application of clinical and practical skills on patients is more interesting for
students, since they understand and successfully perform all stages of the examination.
