The First Internet Center of Distance Education The First Internet Center of Distance Education
	on Antimicrobial Chemotherapy in Russia on Antimicrobial Chemotherapy in Russia

The Official Announcement

The Institute of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (IAC), the Department of Clinical Pharmacology of the Smolensk State Medical Academy and All-Russia Drug Information Network Centers under support of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are glad to inform about the creation of the first Distance Education program on antimicrobial chemotherapy in Russia. The project is approved by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

The world experience shows that the traditional forms of further education do not meet the needs of health care professionals in getting post-graduate education. It is especially evident in the countries with large territories.

The offered distance education program, based on the use of up-to-date telecommunicational and computer technologies (primarily, the Internet), gives health care practitioners, medical tutors, post-graduates, registrars and pharmaceutical professionals the opportunity to go through the course of topical improvement in the field of the antimicrobial therapy of internal diseases without having to interrupt their professional activity and get an official certificate of improving their skills in antimicrobial therapy on the basis of the Smolensk State Medical Academy after finishing the course of studies and passing successfully the final examination.

This form of improving professional skills comprises all the best features of other forms of education. It is one of the most promising and convenient forms as well and gives the practitioners in Russia and the countries of the CIS the opportunity to improve their professional level.