[Student body selection for a regional medical graduate education training center]

The results of analysis of the composition of experts from the Northwestern region of the Russian Federation, who improved their skills at the Medical Academy of Postgraduate Training, Saint Petersburg, i.e. a regional training center for continuous postgraduate education of medical personnel, are presented in the article. The influence of the selected forms and purposes of such training as well as of the development level of outdoor training sessions and of need in certified personnel was defined. The study results promote the planning of the training-and-production activity of the regional training center for the purpose of meeting, as full as possible, the needs of health care institutions in the sphere of postgraduate training of personnel.