Institutional conditions for supporting medical dynasties in modern Russian society

This article is devoted to the analysis of institutional environment for supporting professional dynasties of doctors in modern Russian society. Conditions both promoting and impeding professional reproduction in families and workplaces are considered. The author analyzes advantages and disadvantages of interfamily and intergenerational reproduction of the medical profession to determine any possible development prospects of its heredity. The article establishes that professional continuity through the dynasty inclusion constitutes a distinctive social practice in the healthcare sector. Moreover, the state undertakes the responsibility for supporting professional dynasty of doctors, and shifts it gradually from the range of family and corporate task to make it the goal of institutional support of the state. The author highlights elements of institutional support, such as health infrastructure development, targeted personnel policies, measures to increase the symbolic status of the dynasty, and propaganda of the advantages of dynasty in the media. The identified institutional barriers are proposed to be addressed at the federal and regional levels through the development of a comprehensive system of institutional support for professional dynasties of doctors.