Educational environment of medical university: ways of integration into cultural and educational surroundings of a region

The article compares the categories of "education" and "educational environment as pedagogic phenomenon", considers the structure and functions of the educational environment of the Medical University with the emphasis on its integrative function. It elaborates the conditions, principles, and criteria of integration of educational environment of a Medical University into professional milieu of a treatment-and-prophylactics type of an institution. It provides the ways of integration into cultural and educational surroundings of the region of educational environment of the Medical University.