The resurrection of zemstvo medicine: the realities and perspectives

The federal program "The zemstvo doctor" is in action from January 1 2012. In accordance with this program, the junior physicians aged up to 35 years and who decided to leave for countryside to work during 5 years will get both 1 million rubles as a compensation payment from the federal authorities and other social benefits from local authorities. The article presents the results of questionnaire survey carried out in February-March 2012. The respondent sampling included interns, resident doctors and students of graduate courses of full-time tuition of therapeutic faculty of the I.M. Sechenov first Moscow medical university. The purpose of study became carrying out of survey of junior medical professionals about measures targeted to resurrection of zemstvo medicine in Russia and motivation of junior specialists to work in rural area.

zemstvo medicine, free-of-charge medical care, medical social care, public medicine, junior physician, rural doctor