Concerning spiritual and moral culture of the medical university students (case study of the North Ossetian State Medical Academy)

The article deals with such an urgent issue of the contemporary medical education as the development of the students' moral and spiritual culture. The undertaken research found that the majority of the respondent students are of a low spirituality level which is expressed in inadequate realization of this culture's impact on the vocational development of the future physicians and its place in the students' value system. As a part of the study the author defines methods stimulating the development of the medical students' spiritual and moral culture.