title: Academic medicine in Russia.
abstract: Academic medicine, along with professionalism of the medical community in Russia underwent a remarkable evolution from the Revolution through the decline of the Soviet Union. The Soviet period brought about an enormous expansion of numbers of admissions to medical schools and a corresponding increase in the number of new physicians. Academic medical institutions were separated from institutions of higher learning in general and medical science was separated from the mainstream of science. Many of these features have been reversed in the past 14 years and re-professionalization of medicine has resumed.
authors.affiliation: Eurasian Medical Education Program of the American College of Physicians, Washington, D.C. 20036, USA. ejburger@worldnet.att.net
authors.forename: Edward J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Burger
authors.forename: Lilia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ziganshina
authors.forename: Airat U
authors.initials: AU
authors.lastname: Ziganshin
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D012426:Russia