Clinical medicine is a multi-component and complex dynamic system in which psychiatry is an integral element. The knowledge of psychiatry as a science about the diagnostics, treatment and prevention of mental disorders is especially relevant in the formation of professional clinicians for many reasons with main ones to be specified:

1. Mental disorders in recent decades have come first in terms of the prevalence and severity of socio-economic damage to developed economies, bypassing cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

2. In the structure of the incidence of mental disorders, the frequency of the so-called. “Mild forms” of mental disorders, and the pathomorphism of mental disorders is moving in the direction of somatization of mental disorders (to the forefront of somatic rather than psychological complaints of patients).

3. The responsibility for the treatment and prevention of uncomplicated mental disorders is laid on as the modern methodological basis of the organization of health care puts it, not on psychiatrists and psychiatric hospitals, but on general medicine practitioners working at the primary care level.

The main tasks of psychiatry are:

• The study of the etiology, pathogenesis of mental disorders
• The study of diagnostic methods for the treatment and prevention of mental disorders.
• The study, improvement and development of new methods of psychosocial rehabilitation of the mentally ill.
• A comprehensive study of the phenomenon of stigmatization of the mentally ill and mental disorders in general with the aim of developing measures to overcome this phenomenon in society and reduce discriminatory patterns in relation to persons suffering from mental disorders.

The program of the study of psychiatry is made with regard for the rating of students' knowledge of units. Lectures and practical classes are held in an innovative interactive mode using multimedia equipment.