Formarea specialiştilor cu studii superioare medicale pentru activitatea profesională în domeniul sănătăţii publice

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the process of the training of specialists with higher medical education for professional activity in the organizations of public health services and the development of current requirements for human resources in this area. For the period of 1963-2012, 2695 students were enrolled in the first year course, and 1941 doctors graduated from the university having got the diplomas of this profile. Since 1991, after the declaration of independence, a number of changes and reforms of the entire health system, including the training of specialists have been conducted. The purpose of the reforms has been the maintenance of the functionality of the sanitary and epidemiological service in the conditions of a deep socioeconomic crisis, the worsening of epidemiological situation due to the decrease of the of organizational measures to fight and prevent infectious diseases, emergence of the new diseases with high epidemiological potential of distribution and reemergence of some diseases, that used to be under control; the latter has presented a trend of the deterioration of many health indicators of the population. In the framework of the Tempus project Master Programmes in Public Health and Social Services, a new curriculum for postgraduate training through Master/Residency Program for the graduates on the specialty Public Health has been elaborated. The curriculum was implemented in 2012-2013 academic year. A questionnaire on the training quality evaluation has been filled in by residents at the end of the teaching modules. 129 questionnaires on the training at 9 of 12 modules have been filled in. The results of the performed study will be used to improve the curriculum of post graduate training, elaborate the requirements for the specialists in the field of public health of the Republic of Moldova