[Reform of epidemiology undergraduate education programme for Polish medical students--the changes threatening essentials of education in medical reasoning].

A concise account has been given of the changes included in the contents, shape and volume of the teaching program of epidemiology included in the current abridged set of proposals of the graduate teaching of the subject. The present slashed set of teaching items gives no real possibility of covering even the shortest agenda or either methodological or natural history oriented parts of epidemiological essentials. Given that epidemiological methodology is increasingly the part and parcel of the modern medical thinking in general, the shape of the reform is the dangerous step back against prevailing scientific currents threatening the very status of the national scientific institutions. The article is expected to find approval among university teachers of epidemiology facing the hard times of being obliged to teach or otherwise difficult and demanding subject.