[Study of the "survival" of knowledge among graduates of a sanitation and hygiene college with regard to epidemiology and ways of improving the teaching of this discipline].

The authors present the results obtained in the survey of graduates from the sanitary and hygienic departments of 4 medical institutes of the Ukrainian SSR carried out in a special pedagogical experiment with the aim to determine the "survival" of their knowledge in epidemiology. As a result, variations in the stability of knowledge in different branches of this discipline, especially in disinfection, the problems requiring the integration of knowledge in epidemiology and hygiene (municipal and alimentary), etc., have been revealed. The authors propose some measures for the improvement of teaching.