The article deals with the importance of improvements in departments, in the techniques used, in the opportunities offered and in all aspects at our university. The starting point of this work was "Institutional research". This is a special scientific direction that has emerged and is successfully developing abroad, the purpose of which is to solve practical problems of optimizing the educational process. An anonymous questionnaire was developed for this study. Students of the international medical institute and medical facultie took part in the survey. Respondents shared their opinion about the organization of the educational process at the Department of operative surgery and topographic anatomy.

The article is dedicated to Albert Dmitrievich Myasnikov - Professor, Doctor of Medicine, Head of the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of Kursk State Medical University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the International Academy of Informatization. Albert Dmitrievich is a scientist and teacher with a capital letter. In addition to the huge scientific heritage that he left to medical science, A.D. Myasnikov has trained several generations of outstanding doctors and scientists.

Objective: to study the local effects of the chitosan-collagen complex with silver nanoparticles on the wound proress, as well as its hepato- and nephrotoxic effects. Materials and methods. For the study, we used dressing samples based on high-molecular polymers, which were a highly porous sponge made of chitosan-collagen polyelectrolyte complex with the inclusion of colloidal (ultrafine) particles of metallic (zero-valent) silver. The experiment was performed on white Wistar rats. Evaluation of the results was carried out on the basis of planimetric, bacteriological, histological, biochemical, and hematological methods. The results are statistically processed. Results. It was revealed that by the 15 th day the wound area had decreased by 96% of the original size, the maximum healing rate was noted on 1-5 days of treatment, and no significant changes were found in hematological and biochemical blood tests. Histological examination of wound microscopic specimens revealed that by the 15th day the peak of the proliferative phase of inflammation had occurred, the data were also confirmed on the basis of a morphometric study and a hydroxyproline test. Conclusion. The study revealed that the use of chitosan-collagen complex with silver nanoparticles has a positive effect on the course of the wound process by reducing the microbial contamination of the wound, stimulating tissue regeneration, with no negative effect on the liver and kidneys.