Olympiads in history of medicine: organization experience and peculiarities of conducting
For in-depth study of specific subjects within higher medical schools it is conducted student competitions. The "Olympiad" disciplines included "The history of medicine." This course introduces students the scope of his/her future professional activity, attributes love for medicine. First All-Russian Olympiad in the history of medicine was organized in 2013, by the department of the hstory of medicine of the Moscow state medical and dental university of A.I. Yevdokimov. In 2014 the Olympiad acquired the status of the traditional, annual, and has been conducted under the auspices of the All-Russian public organization "Russian Society of Historians of medicine". All-Russian Olympiad in the history of medicine, according to the Regulations - "educational scientific and practical activity aimed at attracting talented young people to the issues of the history of medicine, the development of scientific methods of work, expanding horizons and the formation of high moral and intellectual level of students of medical universities".