Medical education quality as the basis for health care service development

Nowadays everyone has an understanding of the fact that the quality of medical service can't be higher than the quality of medical education. It's necessary to create new forms of personnel training system improvement including independent learning and continuous professional development. In 1982 the faculty of doctors professional development was organized in Kuibyshev State Medical Institute (now SSMU). This faculty was transformed into the post-graduate education institute. In Samara State Medical University (SSMU) the system of quality management was introduced in 2006. The university obtained the international certificate of quality.