[The mastery of the elements of professional activities in the process of the student performance of independent work in a department of skin and venereal diseases].

The authors sum up the experience gained by the chair for skin and sexually transmitted diseases in training the students within the frames of a universal methodological system in accordance with their future specialization as therapists, pediatricians, dentists, or sanitary physicians. The purpose and motivation of training are defined, basic knowledge of the students are checked up, and the contents of students' self-training presented. Written control tests are described, intended to check up the knowledge and skills; these tests include questions in basic theory, treatment and diagnosis strategy, and prophylactic measures used in prevalent skin and sexually transmitted diseases. Such training organization promotes high-quality mastering the profession and adapts the students to physicians' daily routine.