The main aspects of teaching the discipline “Hygiene and Ecology” to students of the Faculty of Dentistry considered in the article. The questions, related to the problem of increasing the efficiency of the educational process under the current conditions of the reform of the higher education system, are analyzed. The importance of the formation of preventive thinking of students and the practical orientation of discipline, which is realized by attracting students to scientific research and sanitary — enlightenment work was emphasized.
