The concept of preventive medicine and its methodology witnessed a gradual evolution, alongwith the development of the human society. The term anticipation, namely the successful actions perfomed by the organism for maintaining its life, which add to the attainment of the expected results, appear as empirical proofs about the existence of this concept at living beings level. Data on anticipative processes was accumulated in varied domains of life. In the actual context of technological development, besides the concept of anticipative medicine, other terms appeared, such as precision medicine, personalized medicine, participative medicine, multi-layer medicine. Modern medicine is now increasingly oriented towards prevention, focusing its efforts on attaining a long-term equilibrium between humans and their life and work environment. The major objective of health services is protection of the natural and social surrounding environment, thus promoting communitary health. Anticipative medicine, alongwith the requirements of education, contributes to a participative approaching of the medical act and to its full success
Keywords:- anticipative medicine
- concept
- education.
- prevention