Comparative analysis of health preservation features among future specialists in the sphere of medicine

The article presents the analysis of empirical data of foreign and domestic medical and social research on the problem related to the features of health preservation among medical students. It was revealed that all the researchers recognized the importance of health preservation for future doctors in the context of perspective patients counseling on healthy lifestyle. It was determined that the academic sphere of a medical school, on the one hand, promotes formation of health preserving practices among students and, on the other hand, resists these practices implementation due to the specificity of training process of future doctors. It was noted that students'' perception of health preservation varied at different stages of training process in a medical school.