[The fighting for history of medicine].

The article considers issues of actual discussion about "death of history of medicine". For a long time, history of medicine was set out the task to substantiate triumph of one national model and tradition over another one and "to place the past at the service of the future". For example, Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of The Lancet, believes that historians of medicine in no way respond to such problems of today as commercialization of medicine, drug abuse, paralysis in public health, catastrophic failures in patient care. He assumes this fact being true sign of that the history of medicine "is creeping towards scientific cemetery". Another reason for appearance of "obituaries" of history of medicine is the regular fact that classical courses almost exclusively consisted of narratives about great physicians and progress of medical science and practice. Moreover, the "medical" history of medicine if is not killed then is severely wounded by arrows flying from all sides - accusations in mistakes, indications on blind spots, myths and deliberate distortion of facts. The analysis of above-listed problems the proposals were developed concerning possible ways of revising academic course according modern requirements: training in the field of critical thinking, communication skills, oral speech and written language, academic writing. These tasks can be achieved by involving materials from museums of history of medicine, museums of universities and medical institutions, by collaboration with historical sources, databases of scientific publications and by engaging invited lecturers of various specialties working with historical and medical topics within the framework of other methodologies.

[The History of International Associations of Museums of Medicine].

The article considers history of activity of international associations of museums of Europe and North America from the moment of organization of the first International Association of Medical Museums existed from 1907 to 1955 and to the European association of Museums of History of Medical Sciences (since 1983) and the Association of Medical Museums (since 1985) both existing at the present time. The analysis is presented concerning their role in unification of scientific community, development of research methods, determination and reconsideration of professional concepts and also alterations of functions of medical collections and museums with the course of time and new trends in medical education, clinical and fundamental medicine and museum business. The existence and development of museum associations is compared with concept of three "museum revolutions": professionalization of museum sector (at the turn of XIX-XX centuries), orientation on education of broad masses of population (second half of XX century), establishment of principles of social inclusion and multi-culturality (beginning of XXI century). The method of study is analysis of such sources untranslated to Russian previously as archives of "Vestnik" and reports and also scientific publications of members of associations involved into their activities. The results of study determined possible directions of work related to coordination of activities of medical museums, development of scientific research and scientific education methods and exposition work. The conclusions are made about an important role of international associations in systematization of knowledge, organization of scientific activities and medical community, development of guidelines for regional museums and also organization of unified information space for workers of medical museums.

[The Social Networks and Organization of Extracurricular Teaching of Students in the System of Higher Medical Education].

The article considers problem of implementation of interactive technologies into educational environment of medical universities. The experience is considered related to usage of the social network "VKontakte" in 2015/2016 academic year and first half of 2016/2017 academic year as a platform for extracurricular activities of the student scientific research circle on history of medicine of the "The I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University". The methodological recommendations are proposed concerning organization of extracurricular activity of the student scientific research circle in social networks. The possibility of implementation of education in habitual for student youth social media environment and availability of large spectrum of technical resources assignable by "VKontakte" permit to draw a conclusion about expediency of application of the given technology promoting efficiency of organization of extracurricular independent activity of students in the educational process.