The article analyzes the medical and biological aspects of the physical training of students of higher education institutions. The organizational and methodical principles on which the innovative educational technology of implementing the health-forming orientation of modernized physical education is based are highlighted.
 It was established that the level of physical culture of young people is determined, first of all, by special education in this field, the perceived need to use physical exercises and other types of motor activity for the purpose of strengthening health and comprehensive self-improvement. On the basis of the analysis of a complex of literary sources, the goal of physical education is summarized, which consists in improving the health, education and education of student youth.
 The use of medical and biological aspects for the study of physical culture and health measures, where physical training is considered from the standpoint of the formation of skills of motor activity of the individual and the biological properties of the human body, is substantiated.
 The typological characteristics of the modern system of physical education in higher education institutions of Ukraine are determined; the interaction of medical, biological and cultural aspects of physical culture, which contribute to increasing the productivity of educational and physical culture and health activities, is scientifically substantiated.
 Medical-biological aspects include the study of health problems and the physical condition of people, their use for the study of physical culture and health measures is determined by the fact that physical training is considered from the point of view of the formation of motor activity and biological properties of the body.
 The specificity of the motivational and value component of the medical and biological training of future specialists was investigated on the basis of a questionnaire of higher education applicants.
 It has been proven that more attention should be paid to the promotion of sports and physical culture in the institution of higher education, to fully provide classrooms for classes with modern sports equipment and inventory, to actively include student youth in the process of physical education and mass sports events.