Latin language in the sight of the 1st year students

Traditionally during the several centuries Latin language is used in different professional fields of medicine such as anatomy, clinical medicine, pharmacy. Learning Latin in a medical university it is not a sign of respect to the historical role of this language in the world science, but also mastering universal means of communication between the medics all over the world. Results of the survey, which was carried out among the first year students of VSMU named after N.N. Burdenko, indicated that despite of the difficulties in learning of this language, especially in grammar and writing, the vast majority of the students look forward to the benefits from Latin in their further professional career.