Specialization and advanced training of doctors for 40 years of activity of the Kazan State Pedagogical University named after V.I.Lenin

Kazan Institute for Advanced Training of Doctors named after V.I. Lenin, opened in 1920, was the second institute for advanced training of doctors in the system of Soviet health care, after the Leningrad one, which arose on the basis of Eleninsky Institute Hospital. In the latter, in pre-revolutionary times, on a private initiative, advanced training courses were organized, to which a small number of doctors trained at their own expense were admitted.