[Improvement in the combat and special training of the medical service]

The analysis of the existing system of training shows that it has accumulated a certain number of organizational, practicoscientifical, methodical and program-informational problems that need to be solved. Alterations must be made first of all in the whole organizational and program-methodical plan, that will considerably change the elements of structure and the proper contents of combat and special training in medical service. The basic elements of these changes are the following: to assure the continuity between the training and practical work of medical officers in peaceful time and war period; to regard the basic (fundamental) training on clinical and other subjects as a key task of training in the higher military medical establishments; to provide the officers' skill training on the basis of complex qualification tasks; to create methodical cabinets (and more later simulator centers) in each unit or establishment; to form the training centers of medical staff on the basis of internship; to create a basic laboratory of new methods of training and medical education on the basis of Military Medical Division in the Russian Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education.