Post-graduate surgical training at the Fiji National University (FNU), previously known as the Fiji School of Medicine) has recently been updated by incorporating elements from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) training curriculum. The revised curriculum maintains strong contextual relevance to the needs and pathologies of the Pacific Island nations. This paper outlines why the FNU surgical postgraduate training programme should be applauded as a successful programme in the training of surgeons for the region.
The paper presents long-term experience of interaction between practitioners of the State Sanitary and
Epidemiological Service (until 2005) and Rospotrebnadzor (since 2005), the institutions of science for
Rospotrebnadzor, Ural State Medical University in preparing graduates of a medical-preventive profile,
starting from pre-university work with schoolchildren to the introduction of modern technologies of
practice-oriented training of students, specialists post-graduate training of the State Sanitary and
Epidemiological Service and Rospotrebnadzor.
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