[Some problems in teaching anesthesiology and reanimatology at a higher medical educational establishment]

The paper describes the experience of the Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Chita Medical Academy, in upgrading the quality of teaching at the pre- and postgraduate stages of education and the prestigiousness of the specialty for students. The forms of collaboration of the department's collective body with the Academy's governing body and the territory's health care structures are described. These undertakings have doubled the hours of teaching the subjects that are a sphere of anesthesiology and resuscitation at the pregraduate stage. The authors' experience suggests that 2-year clinical residency is the minimum training period under the present conditions. The innovation approach to solving the organizational and professional problems, which is proposed and tested by the authors, resulted in the provision of the health care facilities of the Transbaikal Territory with educated anesthetists-resuscitators (by 98.8%). The use of innovation educational technologies, including internet bases and internet libraries, and audiovisual and telecommunication technologies for distance education and counseling, makes an educational process interesting to young specialists and, overall, serves to increase the prestigiousness of the specialty.