The problem of knowledge heterogeneity in medical education

Abstract

Science and the whole array of human knowledge can be symbolically compared with the mythological animal, which, existing for centuries, consumes the surrounding nature and gradually grows not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively, revealing more and more unexpected properties that need more and more comprehension at each stage. Not only the content of specific knowledge of a particular field is flowing, but also the way in which heterogeneous knowledge interacts with each other. There are areas synthetic from the very beginning, like medicine, which combines heterogeneous knowledge. Therefore, especially for medicine, at every historical stage in the development of knowledge, it is relevant to study how exactly different types of knowledge, fields of knowledge and individual sciences interact, forming an intellectual medical environment.