М.В. KROL: SCIENTIST OF THE NON EMPIRICAL ERA
In 2021, BSU celebrates its 100th anniversary, the flagship of the country's higher education, which is the source of medical education in Belarus. One of the founders of the Faculty of Medicine of the Belarusian State University and the Belarusian State Medical Institute was M. B. Krol - Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Honored Scientist of the BSSR, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor. In the memory of posterity, he remained not only as a scientist, clinician, but above all as a teacher, an effective manager of medical education. M. B. Krol is a complex and controversial figure in the national healthcare, whose years of vigorous activity coincided with a tragic and turning point in the history of the state. M. B. Krol was educated in the Russian Empire, he knew the organization of the scientific and medical process abroad. It was difficult for the scientist to accept the realities of the transitional revolutionary period, when established social values are changing. M. B. Krol was effectively integrated into the scientific and practical health care system of the USSR and left behind a significant legacy: the Belarusian State Medical Institute, the Department of Nervous Diseases. Scientific data, methods of treatment are undergoing changes and are subject to progress, but as a teacher and organizer of medical education, M. B. Krol looked far ahead and admired the understanding of the problems and the foresight of the situation, identified by M. B. Croll 100 years ago, which are still relevant and have not been fully resolved.