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Probl Sotsialnoi Gig Zdravookhranenniiai Istor Med. 2016 Jan;24(1):31-34. doi: 10.1016/0869-866X-2016-1-31-34.

[THE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND GLOBALIZATION CHALLENGES].

Problemy sotsial'noi gigieny, zdravookhraneniia i istorii meditsiny

[Article in Russian]
V S Nechaev, O S Saurina

Affiliations

  1. The N.A. Semashko national research institute of public health, 105064 Moscow, Russia, [email protected].
  2. The N.N. Burdenko Voronezh state medical university, 394036 Voronezh, Russia.

PMID: 31491064 DOI: 10.1016/0869-866X-2016-1-31-34

Abstract

The article considers actual issues of medical education initiated by globalization. The impact of globalization on medical education has multi-vector, multi-factor, multi-directional, parallel and cumulative character. This singularity merges all factors, effects, changes and processes adding by globalization to medical education into heterarchy system formed by crossing, manifold, and simultaneously coexisting structures. The alterations of systemic conditions of functioning of medical education as priority of economic principle, substitution of notion "medical care" by "medical service", diseases of rich and diseases of poor, uncertainty factor, chaotization, priority of applied medical knowledge, individualistic paradigm of medical training are considered. The role and value of the World directory of medical schools in international medical organization is demonstrated.

Keywords: World directory of medical schools; diseases of poor; diseases of rich; globalization; heterarchy; medical education

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