physical education

One of the priorities of the Concept for the Student Sports Development in the Russian Federation until 2025 is to improve the legal regulation of the student sports system and the Intersectoral Program for the student sports development until 2024 provides for a comprehensive update of the legislation on physical culture and sports of the regions of the Russian Federation in terms of student sports. This emphasizes the importance of the development of legislative regulation of student sports both at the federal and regional levels.

The relevance of this study is due to the high level of attention of the state policy in the field of physical culture and sports (PC&S), namely in the part of the All-Russian physical culture and sports complex “Ready for Labor and Defense” (VFSK GTO). According to the development strategy of PC&S for the period up to 2030 (the program “Priority – 2030”), the VFSK GTO is given an increasingly significant role in improving the level of physical activity and fitness level of the population.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the formation of general cultural competencies among students of a medical university in the context of the division of the discipline “Physical culture and sport” into two disciplines – “Physical culture and sports” and “Elective disciplines on physical culture”. The study of the theoretical sections of the syllabus on physical culture is limited to the framework of the autumn semester of the 1st year after such a division.