Continuing Medical Education in the Soviet Union

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Abstract
Physicians in the USSR practice within a system organized for flow of health-care services to the public, and for flow of patients to appropriate back-up diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. The present medical-education policy of the USSR Ministry of Health is oriented toward increasing the qualifications of all physicians. This poses a complex problem for postgraduate medical education in the Soviet Union. To meet the challenge the Ministry has evolved an educational system that binds all phases of medical education and is noteworthy for its commitment of personnel, financial and organizational resources to the lifelong improvement of a physician's knowledge and skills. The most important role is that of the 13 Institutes for Advanced Education of Physicians, under the leadership of the Central Institute in Moscow.

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