The state duma adopted a law that prohibits remote learning for doctors

According to him, “the level of training of medical workers who have received new qualifications based on the results of only online courses”, and “people who will not provide the necessary assistance in time can suffer this can be in doubt.”

An exception will be the cases in which electronic learning or distance is determined by federal educational standards. The law is assigned to the development and approval of additional professional medical education programs for the Ministry of Health.

The medical education institutions must receive the conclusions of Roszdravnadzor about the appropriate staff and logistics availability, and additional professional medical training will be subject to licenses by types of programs.

Context. Previously, the head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, said that in Russia there is a lack of around 23.3 thousand doctors and 63.6 thousand average medical staff. According to the official, many older doctors left medicine after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

• At the end of January, the first registry of popular healers appeared in Russia. It was created by the Bashkortostan Ministry of Health, people who can officially participate in traditional medicine are included in the list. The residents of the Republic, “who received permission and have no medical education, operates in the field of traditional medicine under the supervision of a doctor,” the corresponding permit is broadcast for five years, the ministry said.