REMEDIUMREMEDIUM1561-59362658-3534Joint-Stock Company Chicot166010.32687/1561-5936-2023-27-3-242-246Original ArticleContinuous training as a condition for ensuring the competence level of medical personnelSmirnovaEvgenia K.dr.smirnovaek@mail.ruGurtskoyLev D.gurtskoyld@yandex.ruN. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, Moscow, RussiaRostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia15122023324224614102025Copyright © 2023,2023Lifelong learning is seen as a vital skill for any physician seeking to provide current, safe, and high-quality medical care to individual patients. The purpose of this work is to review the scientific literature on the implementation of continuing medical education as a mechanism for ensuring the competence of medical specialists. The study showed that lifelong learning is defined as an attribute that includes a set of independent actions and information retrieval skills with a stable motivation to learn and the ability to recognize ones own learning needs. Healthcare professionals are expected to be trained throughout their lives due to the nature of their work — to deal with human life, to meet the needs of patients in the field of healthcare — in an environment where knowledge, technology and social requirements are changing rapidly and continuously.professional activitydoctortrainingcompetenciescontinuous trainingmedical personnelпрофессиональная деятельностьврачобучениекомпетенциинепрерывное обучениемедицинский персонал1.Arnold L. Assessing professional behavior: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Acad. Med. 2002;77:28—37.2.Longworth N. Learning communities for a learning century. In: Aspin D., Chapman J., Hatton M., Sawano Y. (eds.) International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Dordecht; 2001:591—618.3.Churganov O. A. Modern development of continuing medical and pharmaceutical education in Russia. Additional professional education in the country and in the world. 2018;1:29—32. (In Russ.)4.Hojat M., Veloski J., Nasca T., Erdmann J., Gonnella J. Assessing physicians’ orientation toward lifelong learning. J. Gen. Intern. Med. 2006;21(9):931—936.5.Davies W. K. European lifelong learning initiative. Eur. J. Eng. Educ. 1993;18:125—128.6.Flexner A. Medical education in the United States and Canada. N.Y.; 1910.7.Madewell J. E. Lifelong learning and the maintenance of certification. J. Am. Coll. Radiol. 2004;1:199—203.8.Piven D. V., Kitsul. I. S. Prospects and possible options for the development of continuing medical education in Russia. Health care manager. 2022;(7):4—9. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.21045/1811-0185-2022-7-4-99.Levina I. A. Designing the content aspects of continuing medical education aimed at developing the professional capabilities of specialists with secondary medical education. Methodology and technology of continuing professional education. 2022;(1):24—26. (In Russ.)