For many years, there has been an unfavorable dynamic of the state of health of the population, and morbidity rates have been steadily increasing. In this regard, the training of specialists with knowledge in the field of rehabilitation, methods of solving social problems related to health, methods of restoring the abilities of patients and disabled people to everyday, social, professional activities, skills of forming the mechanisms of interaction of the social environment with persons with disabilities is of great importance. health. These questions include the discipline of "Medical Rehabilitation" module, which is "Fundamentals of Medical and Psychological Rehabilitation". Under the influence of various theoretical currents, the concept of "personality and illness" arose and began to attract even more attention. Disease is understood as the processes of disorganization of the body, accompanied by a violation of the biological and social properties of the individual. The purely biological model of disease has been replaced by the so-called mixed model, which implies the interaction and complementarity of the biological and psychosocial. The biological in a person is always mediated by the social, and the person's personality as an integral concept directly forms a connection between the biological and the social. Due to the so-called biological orientation of modern social and natural sciences, including medicine, the style of thinking changes towards a broader evolutionary-population concept, where the organism is considered in a living connection with the environment.