Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The paper analyzes the evolution of issues faced by the Russian military medical education system during its establishment and development. Such issues arose from many reasons, but we can highlight the most important ones. First of all, the medical training management depends on the country’s leadership perspective on the system of training of medical personnel in general and on the place and role of military medicine in the Army and Navy structure. In this case, regardless of the social system, there has been imbalance, e.g. excessive militarization of education to the detriment of students (cadets) acquiring special knowledge and the discarding of all military medical disciplines from the curriculum. Some issues, including underfunding, protectionism, and other factors, are permanent and have been traced back to more than three centuries. Another threat is ill-conceived pedagogical experiments. As history is cyclical, awareness of the problems we faced in relation to medical training development in the past, along with methods of addressing them by our predecessors and their effects may be indispensable for making new decisions regarding the development of the Russian military medical education.
Source: Humanitarian Military Journal
DOI: 10.17816/hmj643311
Authors: Andrei A. Zhukov, Oleg A. Kryuchkov
Institution: S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy
Language: English
Topic: Health and Medical Education
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4413119653