[The main directions for improving the medical supply specialists training in conditions of pharmaceutical education system reformation in our country].

The beginning of Russian pharmaceutical education reform requires the new approaches to organization of medical supply specialists' training. The specialized training of medical supply managerial staff for the Armed Forces is conducted in the department of military medical supply and pharmaceutics in the Kirov Military Medical Academy. The completion of pre-graduation training of such specialists is conducted in the Tomsk military medical institute. The reserve officers are trained in the faculties of military education in the Sechenov Moscow medical academy, etc., in the departments of military and extreme medicine in medical higher schools having pharmaceutical faculties. At present the post-graduation training of medical supply specialists is conductedin the departments of the Kirov Military Medical Academy, the Tomsk military medical institute and the State Institute for Physicians' Advanced Training. Realization of pre-graduation conception of military pharmacists' training will require the development of a new list of posts of medical supply specialists in the Armed Forces medical service and clear regular measures for their appropriate use.