Educational work by the department’s staff is conducted according to the directions, according to the strategy of development of KazNMU: control of academic performance, moral and spiritual, patriotic and ideological, professional and legal education, propaganda of a healthy lifestyle.
Students study the history of the university. In connection with the 125th anniversary of S.D. Asfendiyarov with students were conversations about a prominent public and state figure, historian, professor, organizer and first rector of the Almaty Medical University (now KazNMU named after S.D. Asfendiyarov). A presentation was dedicated to the activities of S.D. Asfendiyarov, the ways of becoming his personality. Students also visited the KazNMU museum, saw personal belongings of S.D. Asfendiyarov and his office. The film “Sanjar Asfendiyarov – the pride of the nation” was watched.
A lot of time is given to the volunteer movement. Within the framework of the program “Relay of Good Deeds” in GP No. 5, a master class was conducted on the topic: “Hypertension as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Diseases” within the framework of the Republican Decade for the Prevention of Blood Circulation Disease, timed to the World Day against Arterial Hypertension September 30). A conference dedicated to the International Day of Older Persons (October 1) was organized and held. On the basis of the Clinic for Internal Diseases No. 2 of KazNMU, an open house was organized, The help in the form of medical and consultative help to the population.
The university pays much attention to the moral and spiritual education of students. The Department for Social and Educational Work of KazNMU organizes a meeting with the Office for Combating Religious Extremism, for example, on October 11, 2014, a meeting with Uteshov Zh.A. and the adviser of the rector Nurgazinova S.Zh. At the meeting, they shared information on religious extremism, adherents-solafites and measures to identify a risk group among young people and direct them to the right path.
Employees of the department together with students, interns and residents take part in seminars, conferences, congresses, held in the city, in the republic and abroad. Annually, with the participation of the department, scientific and practical conferences are held with the invitation and participation in their work of scientists from the regions of Russia, Central Asia, etc.). In the “Days of the University” in 2013 – 2016. Heads of departments and leading researchers as Professor Solovyev SK, Beketova TV, A.G.Bochkova, A.V. Smirnov, chief rheumatologist of Belarus Matusevich NA, chief rheumatologist of Kyrgyzstan Lobanchenko O.V. At the scientific and practical conferences “Modern aspects of diagnosis and treatment of rheumatic diseases and osteoporosis”, organized by the department, speeches were given on current issues of general medical practice, therapy and rheumatology, master classes, as well as demonstrative consultations of patients with articular syndrome, diffuse diseases connective tissue in the Clinic of Internal Medicine of KazNMU, which was very instructive for students in future medical activities.
As part of the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Program, KazNMU conducts round tables with students on the topic: “There is no place for corruption in medicine”. Discusses the ethics of the doctor, the communication skills that a future doctor should have.
The chair pays attention to issues of civil defense, patriotism, development of national traditions. Annually there will be meetings with students of curatorial groups round the table to the Day of Nauryz – the eastern holiday of spring. Conducted conversations on the theme: “Rites and traditions of the Kazakh people”, aimed at the disclosure of cultural values, national characteristics of the Kazakh people. It was concluded that the younger generation needs to know and honor the traditions of our ancestors.