KHABIBULLA OKILOV
The culture of health, medical errors and virtual clinics: Khabibulla
Okilov, the rector of Tashkent Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education speaks about using technologies and achievements of the civilization; and explains about what is changing in the education of
medical personnel.
Uzbekistan is gradually proceeding to medical insurance.
Both equipment and education are expensive; medicines and treatment by themselves are not able to be cheap or, particularly, free.
Our institute aims to ensure continuity of Medicine education.
This year the institute turned 87 this year. Our students are physicians working in the healthcare system of Uzbekistan, who undergo postgraduate education here. Today there are about 80,000 physicians, and about 20,000 more medical professionals who work for other institutions and private sector.
In total, any medical professional must undergo 288 credit hours of advanced training every five years.
Our educational institution has had all-USSR significance since its foundation. Our students were coming from neighbor republics, Siberia and TransUrals region.
Now it is the only institute of postgraduate medical education in Uzbekistan. There are Advanced Training faculties opened up in the State Medical Institutes of Samarkand, Bukhara and Andijan, as well as in Tashkent State Dental Institute.
Now other specialized centers, scientific research institutes and multidisciplinary clinics are also involved in the training process.
In addition, foreign experts conduct their master classes here. Teachers of the Institute go abroad to intern and exchange their experience. With that end in view, we have we have concluded memoranda with leading clinics and universities of Turkey, Israel, South Korea, Spain, France, Russia, Germany, Austria.
We are introducing distance education passionately. We conduct webinars with both foreign and our country's universities.
A teacher may physically stay in Tashkent, Moscow or Paris, and his audience may listen to him from Nukus, Bukhara and Termez.
The future of medicine is simulation education. Together with our Turkish and German colleagues, we have opened up several centers of ultrasonic diagnostics, surgical gynecology and operative surgery: neonatal, pediatric and adult.
One of our dreams is to establish a large simulation center of all medical professions.
In the civilized world, nobody is learned working directly on patients; there are there are computer simulations and robots-phantoms that simulate all situations, pathologies or diseases.
There are new clinics built in our country; the most modern equipment is imported, up-to-date treatment methods and medicines instilled into practice.
There has never been transplantation in Uzbekistan… Still, we have already performed more than one hundred renal transplantations. There were performed four renal transplantations, one after another, under academician Nazirov's leadership in the Surgery Center named after Academician Vakhidov! This is comparable to cosmic exploration for healthcare!
The number and level of complexity of the operations on heart that are made in a country is recognized by the world as an indirect sign of the development level of the country. All types of operations on heart in Uzbekistan are performed on the highest level.
Now there is a turning point in regions. Innovative clinics that are not inferior to the capital ones are opened up there.
People used to go to Tashkent for specialized medical help; now high technology operations are performed also in regions.
Why young professionals would not like to work in regions? Because you know what was there before? A rural medical center with only two or three names of drugs, no high technologies at all. Today operations on both thoracic and abdominal cavities, as well as on both working and stopped heart are widely performed even in regional cities. Surgeons perform difficult operations there.
Scientist and surgeon, organizer of healthcare and medical education. M.D.,
Professor, full member of Russian Academy of medical and technical sciences. A graduate of Central Asian Medical Pediatric Institute. A recognized leader, especially in pediatric surgery field.
Both equipment and education are expensive; medicines and treatment by themselves are not able to be cheap or, particularly, free.
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