MEDICAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE

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• Document Release Date: July 14, 2005
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• Publication Date: July 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorised person is prohibited
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COUNTRY USSR
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SUBJECT Medical Education and Practice DATE DISTR.
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aental schools in the USSR:
a.
:here were two basic types of higher medical and
The medical institute (meditsinskiy Institut) or stomatological:institute
(Stomatologicheekiy institut).
b. The medical school (meditsinskiy fakulltet universiteta) or stomatological
school (stomatologicheskiyfacul'tet universiteta).
Entrance requirements for all these schools were ten years of completed education.
The length of the course was five years, divided into ten semesters.
the following schools:
(1) Medical institutes in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev (two), Minsk, Tashkent,
Sverdlovsk, Molotov, Poltava, Odessa, Kharkov, Novosibirsk, Simferopol',
Gomel', Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, and Baku.
Stomatological institutes in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Tashkent,
and Vladivostok.
Medical schools in Moscow, Leningrad, Molotov, Kazan', and Tbilisi.
(4) Stomatological schools in Moscow, Leningrad, Molotov, Kazan', and Tbilisi.
25X1 2. Special "graduate" training was given to students during
their last year in' an institute or in the medical. school of a university
(9th and 10th semesters); during this period, lectures
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were reetesed to a minemem., and much more time was devoted to practi-
cal work in hospitals And clinics, where the stadants actually .sub-
stituted for the doctors. After this training and sneceseful cOm-
pletione:s, final examination, candidates received theirwm,,as
medical aoctorog and with the diploma the right to practice medicine.
In the USSR there was no obligatory training for Medical doctoriv
during their careers. Once graduated, no medical doctor could be,
sent to any medical installation for training, unless he requested
such training in the interests of specialization. After graduation,
however, newly commissioned medical doctors had to accept for three .
years the appointments assigned to them by the Public Health. Depart-
ment. These appointments were made quite arbitrarily; the graduates
were not asked where they would like to serve in the USSR or in what
capacity. After the expiration of the obligatory three-year period,
medical doctor had a right to ask for a transfer, which might or
might notbe granted, depending on service requirements.
could practice,
completion of a
served as a license
here
no special licensing of doctors so they
the diploma a doctor obtained after the
caJ institute or medical school csc a university
to practice medicine.
4. The Public Health Department controlled the regulations relating to
medical practice through its regional agencies, such as the OblZdraV,
Rayldrav, and OferZdrav. This was normally handled by the Public
? Health Department Commissions, which were sent periodically to hos-
? pitals, clinics, and sanitoriums to check on the activity of edical
doctors and on the general condition of medical installations.
However, these inspections.were usually carried out in a routine way;
and unlese there were some complaints about illegal or inappropriate
activity of physicians, nothing was ever discovered to be salvo.'
5. According to established policy, every physician and stomatolegiat
In the USSR had to hold some position in government service. There
were no independent practitioners in the Soviet Union. Everyones
worked in sieve kind of medical or dental institution and received
the govern ental salary stipulated for his position. Although
stomatologists and renowned medical specialists were authorized to
carry on a private practice, they did so only in their off-dUtY
hours. Fees received from private patients were to be entered in
physicians' accounting books and were subject to a high income taxe
T/O's of public health institutions always specified the salaries'
of physicians or stomatologists in any slot. The salary consisted
of base pay (funktsionnaya zarplata), position pay (zarplata za -
zanimayemnvu shtatnuyu dolzhnost,), and longevity pay (nachis).eniye
25X1 za vyslugu let). I 'the starting palfrey for a physician
or stomatologist in government-contrelled medical institutions was
approximately 800 rubles per month, with no allowance for position
pay or longevity pay. When a physician was appointed to a post in
which he was to supervise other physicians, he received an allowance
25X1 for position pay sometimes as high as 25% of his base paY.1
25X1 longevity pay was an extra 5% of the base pay for every
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two years or service.
6. Physicians and stomatologists who were graduates of higher medical
or dental educational institutes were referred to in the USSR as
"vrachn Liquivalent of fpg. They could obtain a doctor's scienti-
fic degree by writing a -dissertation on some medical or stomatologi-
cal subject and presenting it to a government committee. A doctor's
degree meant an additional salary of 4000 rubles per month. Member-
ship in the USSR Academy of Sciences might be awarded a physician or
stomatologist for outstanding research or for scientific or literary
work in a medical field.
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