At the department there is a studentscientific circle, the SSC included residents of the first year of training in the specialty “CLD” and students of the 5-6 year of the faculty “General Medicine”.Monthly 3 meetings were held, at which the members of the student circle delivered reports, presentations were accompanied by demonstrations of presentations and video films. The most interesting and actual topics of the reports were selected and presented for the 2nd round of the SRW, which took place at the university level. Also, poster presentations, theses and articles in journals were prepared.