This methodological manual is intended for students of medical specialties and is written in full accordance with the requirements of the All- Russian Educational and Methodological Center for Continuing Medical and Pharmaceutical Education.

The manual guides students toward independent classroom and extracurricular work. Presented are target tasks, tasks for self-study, a list of objects of study, a list of basic terms for each topic, a detailed description of histological slides, and control questions for the topic.

The manual is compiled on the basis of an approximate program for histology, cytology, embryology for specialty 060101 - General Medicine.