Distance education in medicine: the experience of urologists 2012-2019

Introduction. In recent years, the system of postgraduate education in medicine has faced new challenges and need for improvement. Nowadays the old «once in a lifetime» model becomes impossible, and the traditional education models are giving way to innovative forms of distance education. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to present the experience of organizing distance education courses for urologists, andrologists, oncourologists and doctors of related specialties. Educational materials and methods. In 2011 the authors created UroEdu.ru to provide urologists and doctors of related specialties with unique educational materials created on the basis of the latest achievements in urological science, presented by the leading world and domestic leaders in the sphere. Results. In the period from 2012 to 2019 there were implemented 40 distance education courses as part of the project. The official language of the educational resource UroEdu.ru is Russian. Almost all courses have current and final control of the knowledge level...