[Age-related changes in lungs' vital capacity in Ryazan schoolchildren].

The vital capacity in the 11- and 14-year old boys and 11- and 13-year old girls examined in 1996 to 1999 significantly reduced as compared in the children of the same age. The significant increase in the vital capacity in 15-16-old girls examined in 1996-1999 is due to that in their height, as compared with these indices in those examined in 1976 (by 4.64 and 4.87, respectively).

[On systemic training of preventive medical specialists under the present conditions]. / O sistemnoi podgotovke spetsialistov profilakticheskoi meditsiny v sovremennykh usloviiakh.

The results of a systemic approach to training the students of the Faculty of Preventive Medicine, I. P. Pavlov Ryazan State Medical University during the reorganization of higher medical education in the country, which covered pre-higher higher, and post-higher education are presented. Prehigher education on the basis of school and the university assumes that students will obtain extended theoretical and practical skills in chemistry, anatomy, and biology. Higher education at the stage of propedeutic hygiene forms in students ideas of the significance of environmental factors for human health, the threshold of their action, and sanitary standardization.