The increasingly complex requirements for the training of professionally mobile specialists at a medical university, who are ready to make independent decisions and continuous professional development, involve mastering the methods and techniques of independent work by students of medical universities from the very first days of training. In order to determine the most effective personal-developing approaches to the construction of training, a questionnaire was conducted among students of the pediatric and medical-preventive faculties of the BSMU of the Ministry of Health, aimed at identifying the attitude of students to independent work at the university and analyzing the data obtained in the process of implementing the technology of guided self-study at the departments of the humanities.