On the issue of preventive bias in teaching clinical disciplines

The question of the reform of higher education in all areas, in particular the question of the reform of higher medical education, is urgent and acute in our country. This relevance and acuteness stands in the context of the Soviet socialist attitude, in the sense of a revision of the main fundamental ideological points of view on the tasks of higher education in general, medical in particular, a corresponding revision of plans and educational and pedagogical programs, teaching methods and practice, an appropriate selection of teaching forces, etc. Related to this question is the question of science in general, and the connection of science with state and national economic construction, the question of the role of science in socialist construction, the question of the connection between "science and labor", the question of training new cadres of scientific builders in various branches of state and social life and in our Soviet conditions — the builders of socialism, the socialist way of life. In connection with this issue, we have recently experienced and are experiencing a number of sharp, broad socio-political discussions on the reform of the Academy of Sciences; this question was sharply debated at the last regular meeting (section) of scientific workers in Moscow, according to the report of comrade. Vyshinsky.