[Specialization training in social medicine and the organization of health care]

During the last five years the Chair of Social Medicine and Organization of the Health Services began to make greater demands also on the stage of training in the specialty which precedes admission to a course in the specialty of social medicine and the organization of health services. The training last three years incl. the participation in a pre-attestation course. The prerequisite of a high standard of training which begins by admitting the student to the discipline is early selection of a tutor (leading worker, specialist in the discipline of social medicine and the organization of health services). The tutor helps with the preparation of a programme of studies which should ensure high standard selfhanded studies and preparation of the new candidate before admission to the course as well as during periods between different sessions which are part of the courses held in the Institute for Postgraduate Medical and Pharmaceutical Training. The investigation made in participants of three consecutive specialization courses should elucidate the present position and stimulate leading workers in the discipline of social medicine and the organization of health services to devote more attention to the selection of subjects admitted to the discipline and to make much greater efforts as regards training of workers, a reserve of future leading workers. At the same time the results of the investigation should provide more information to workers of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs of the CSR on the state of training in the discipline of social medicine and organization of health services and on the training of workers engaged in the discipline as well as those who are starting work in the discipline.