Abstract:

This paper views issues relating to the development of the teaching of interdisciplinary undergraduate subjects. Undergraduate educational programs, as a rule, provide for the teaching of interdisciplinary subjects. Interdisciplinary subjects involve establishing links between disciplines of two or more scientific fields based on innovative approaches in terms of understanding, explaining and applying phenomena or processes in practice. The interconnection of scientific areas, in turn, requires mutual exchange and the formation of complex and interdisciplinary skills of researchers of individual specialties. This article discusses the problems and prospects associated with the teaching of some interdisciplinary subjects in natural science and medicine. This applies to teaching the disciplines of medical physics and radiology, biophysics, biomechanics and kinesiology. Teaching these disciplines requires comprehensive knowledge of the latest achievements in medicine, physics, biology, chemistry, rheology, which is quite difficult in the era of modern high technology.

Authors of textbooks in the disciplines of medical physics and radiology, biomechanics and kinesiology, are distinguished by a trend. This means that, for example, a textbook written by a group of doctors clearly suffers from a lack of use of the skills, achievements, and logical reasoning of the exact sciences. Accordingly, there is an incomplete physical, chemical and mathematical analysis of the pathological course of certain diseases, such as cardiovascular, microrheological, ionizing radiation and other processes. While the use of physics, mathematics, rheology, computer modeling greatly facilitates accurate assessments of the pathological state of various organs or cells and, subsequently, the expected risks of developing this pathology. Therefore, a graduate cannot possess these knowledge and skills. Using examples of some processes (aneurysm, atherosclerotic plaque and microrheology), the paper discusses the assessment of the dynamics of the development of pathological processes and the analysis of expected results using the laws of modern physics and rheology. The schemes and calculations given along with the theory will bring clarity and accuracy to the teaching of the above disciplines.

Keywords:

Interdisciplinary subject, interdisciplinary approach, medical physics, biomechanics, microrheology.