According to the author, a physics course at a medical university, along with fundamentality, should have a specific ?medical address?, i.e., be profiled. Profiling is selection of material and illustration of possible applications of physics in medicine. Profiling not only motivates students to study physics, it is necessary due to the rather small volume of the physics course in medical institution of higher education.
One of the methodological difficulties of this course is a combination of fundamentalization and profiling. This is one of peculiarities of the textbook. Another one is because biophysics is not isolated as an individual part, but is presented in the corresponding sections as the physics of the animate nature.
Mathematical processing of measurements results and the fundamentals of cybernetics are considered as an introductory section for the basic material.
Description of the equipment is given in the textbook sketchily, as it is done in more detail in the book of I.A. Essaulova, M.E. Blokhina, L.D. Gontsov ?Guide for Laboratory Works on Medical and Biological Physics? (Moscow, 1987) [1]. Examples and problems can be found in the textbook of A.N. Remizov, A.G. Maksina ?Medical and Biological Physics: Collection of Problems'' - the 2nd edition, updated and revised? [2], that is located in the electronic library system "Student's Asdviser. Electronic Library of Medical Institution of Higher Education" (www.studmedlib.ru/extra). References to these editions will be designated in the text of the textbook as [1] and [2], respectively. The textbook and the foregoing manuals form an integral methodological complex.
Chapters 2 and 3 are written by E.V. Faustov, Ph.D., a reader of the Department of Medical and Biological Physics of the N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University. The co-author of Chapter 8 is M.R. Bogomilsky.