Public health and healthcare
The compilation of the program is due to the fact that there is a wide range of questions that all students should study regardless of the profile of the faculty and future specialty. These are, first of all, issues of public health and healthcare, social medicine, medical statistics, etc.

Total labor input: 2 credits (72)
Classroom sessions: 36 hours
Students’ independent work: 36 hours
Semester: 8
Final control: test

Bioethics
The problems of biomedical ethics are in the focus of activities of large scientific international conferences with a number of specialized journals published. Specialized committees and comissions on biomedical ethics are established at national medical associations, as well as at a number of international organizations, such as the Council of Europe, UNESCO, WHO, WMA, etc. In 1996, the Council of Europe adopted the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. Biomedical ethics was introduced as a compulsory medical discipline in higher and secondary medical educational institutions in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. In the decisions of the 4th WHO conference on the problems of teaching biomedical ethics (Geneva, 1994) it was noted that the teaching of this discipline should not be selective, but mandatory.

The formation of moral consciousness of doctors should include familiarization with moral traditions in medicine.

The development of biomedical ethics was due to revolutionary achievements in the field of high biomedical technologies, the development of the concept of "brain death" in neurology and resuscitation, fundamental discoveries in transplantology, psychopharmacology, in the field of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, molecular biology and medical genetics (genetic diagnostics and genetic therapy) etc.
The above circumstances make it highly necessary to study the discipline of "Bioethics", which will allow medical students to catch up with the basics of modern bioethical knowledge in relation to the field of their future professional activity. At the same time, teaching biomedical ethics will be an important step in reforming the entire system of teaching social disciplines in medical schools, being as a link between the modern arsenal of humanitarian knowledge and the real and most urgent problems of medical science and practice.

The structure of the program reflects the traditions of teaching biomedical ethics that have developed in world practice, and also complies with the usual plan for the presentation of relevant foreign textbooks and teaching manuals. The inclusion of some specific topics is justified by the tradition of teaching and the fact that the development of the conceptual foundations of bioethics has always been associated with the discussion and development of morally sound approaches to solving some specific problems of medical science and practice. It was namely the moral problems of reproduction, genetics, transplantology, caring for dying patients, euthanasia, the rights of psychiatric patients and AIDS patients that at different times were in the spotlight and stimulated the theoretical development of biomedical ethics.

Total labor input: 2 credits (72 hours)
Classroom sessions: 40 hours
Students’ independent work: 32 hours
Semester: 3
Final control: test

Biostatistics
Long-term practice of teaching the traditional course of mathematical statistics in medical faculties has shown that the student will not gain an understanding of the connection between statistical methods and medical challenges. The study of public health, conditions, lifestyle and quality of life of people, health care activities and, finally, changes in human ecology, as well as the factors that determine them, is possible only through the use of various special research methods. The scientific basis and methodology for studying public health and the factors that influence it is laid down in medical statistics, the part of biostatistics that studies issues related to medicine. Therefore, the basis of biostatistics should be studied by all students of medical faculties, irrespective of the profile of the faculty and future specialty.

Total labor input: 1 credit (36 hours)
Classroom sessions: 18 hours
Students' independent work: 18 hours
Semester: 8
Final control: test

Evidence based medicine (elective)
In the last four decades, a new field of knowledge has evolved in medicine, which is evidence-based medicine. The literal interpretation of it is “medicine based on the facts” or, which more accurately reflects the meaning of the term, “scientifically substantiated medical practice”, or “science and evidence based medicine”. Science and evidence based medicine is a new approach, a direction in the technology of collecting, analyzing, generalizing and interpreting scientific information. This is the integration of the best scientific data with the clinical experience of the doctor and the values of the patient, the conscientious, accurate and comprehended use of the best findings of clinical trials to choose the treatment for a particular patient. In this regard, a modern doctor should not only be informed about the latest medical technologies, but also must know why a particular treatment method can be considered effective and safe.

Total labor input: 2 credits (72)
Class hours: 32 hours
Students’ independent work: 40 hours
Semester: 10
Final control: test

Economy
The basic concepts of health care, public health are the financing systems. The main examples of market insolvency in the healthcare sector are: asymmetries in the awareness of market players, the impact of supply and demand factors on health.

Total labor input: 2 credits (72 hours)
Classroom sessions: 36 hours
Students’ independent work: 36 hours
Semester: 5
Final control: test

Environmental health
In the system of higher medical education, a particularly important role in the formation of the physician's worldview belongs to the main preventive discipline, which is hygiene.
The development of a conscious understanding of the relationship between human health and the environment, factors and living conditions, and labor activity in medical students is a necessary prerequisite for their active participation in conducting scientifically substantiated and effective treatment measures, disease prevention, and promoting a healthy lifestyle.
When training a medical doctor, it is necessary to consider human health as a category that is formed under the influence of a complex, interconnected complex of natural, anthropogenic and social factors.

The teaching of hygiene is of particular significance in the formation of medical activities, in solving problems in the prevention of diseases, in the development of ecological thinking of students.

Total labor input: 4 credits (144)
Classroom sessions: 72 hours
Students’ independent work: 72 hours
Semester: 5
Final control: exam

Epidemiology
The program on epidemiology for students majoring in General Medicine at the International Higher School of Medicine is compiled in accordance with the requirements of the qualification characteristics of the graduate of the “General Medicine” program and with its purpose to provide medical services to the population of the country starting from the primary stages of medical institutions.

The program is based on the requirements of the “Modern Epidemiology” discipline, which are recommended by the CDC and used by WHO.
The program takes into account the provisions contained in the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic on the protection of public health, sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population of the Kyrgyz Republic, as well as other government policy documents, orders and instructions of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic on strengthening the preventive orientation of public education and the arising requirements for the training of medical personnel.
A prerequisite for a successful course in epidemiology is to ensure an initial level of knowledge by the departments of social sciences, general theoretical, hygienic and some clinical disciplines.
Integration of training is carried out with the departments of philosophy, microbiology, histology, physiology, hygiene, infectious diseases, social hygiene and the organization of health care.

Total labor input: 3 credits (108 hours)
Classroom sessions: 54 hours
Students’ independent work: 54 hours
Semester: 9
Final control: exam

History of Medicine
The course of "History of Medicine" is one of the general educational disciplines for teaching students in universities of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Total labor input: 2 credits (72 hours)
Classroom sessions: 40 hours
Students’ independent work: 32 hours
Semester:  2
Final control: test

Communicating for health
Health promotion, along with protecting health of people, is an integral part of public health. As an instrument aimed at promoting health, raising the awareness of the individual and society as a whole, health promotion plays a huge role in improving health and enhancing the quality of life of the population, especially in developing countries.
Health promotion today encompasses a variety of activities aimed at improving the health status of individuals and communities and requires medical personnel to have a wide range of knowledge and skills to increase public awareness of their health and to prevent the adverse effects of environmental factors on health.

Total labor input: 1 credit (36)
Classroom hours: 16 hours
Student’s independent work: 20 hours
Semester: 10
Final control: test

Microbiology, virology and immunology
In the general system of training doctors, microbiology has a special position: it is a science that gives fundamental general biological knowledge and forms medical thinking, and on the other hand it is the basis for studying other disciplines, primarily the clinic of infectious diseases.

Teaching includes three independent sciences: bacteriology, virology and immunology, the amount of information on which is progressively increasing.

At the same time, in recent years, in addition to the accumulated significant amount of new information, infectious pathology has changed significantly: the number of chronic infections and the frequency of persistence of pathogens have increased, antibiotic-resistant strains of microorganisms have become widespread, and the number of diseases caused by opportunistic microorganisms has increased and continues to grow in surgical, therapeutic, obstetric and gynecological and other non-infectious hospitals. As laboratory practice shows, the microbiological diagnostics of infectious diseases in many cases is difficult and complicated. The reason for this is a change in the properties and nature of pathogens that show resistance to many antibacterial and disinfectants used, their widespread carriage among the population and circulation in the environment.

Clinicians' requirements for the knowledge gained by students in the study of microbiology, virology and immunology have increased significantly - they should have a certain focus. The need has emerged for the training of specialists of a new type, who would possess versatile knowledge and skills not only in microbiology, but also in such related fields as molecular biology, genetics, pharmacoepidemiology.

Total labor input: 9 credits (324 hours)
Classroom sessions: 172 hours
Student's independent work: 152 hours
Semester: 3,4
Final control: exam