Traditional education is the most common form of education, which involves close interaction between the teacher and students. In the traditional teaching scheme, the teacher is the only source of knowledge in his field. The combined form of education is the interaction of traditional and distance learning. Distance form of education is the receipt of educational services without visiting an educational institution, with the help of modern information and educational technologies and telecommunication systems. The subject of the study was a comparative assessment of the assimilation of the material on the discipline "Fac-ulty Surgery" in the traditional, combined and distance format by foreign students. In the fu-ture, the full-fledged universal development of distance learning, which in its essence can be both an independent form and in addition to full-time education.