Informal medical education in universities

Abstract

World experience shows that one of the regularities of the renewal of society and the productive functioning of the market economy is the organization of education on a scientific basis, the growth of the priority of vocational training in the value system of society. The functioning of formal and non-formal adult education is objectively related to the self-improvement of a person who has a certain professional and life experience. Given the demographic situation in the country, it is important for Russia to solve the problem of attracting adults to the educational process. This is due to the changing forms of social life, the rapid obsolescence of information, the difficulties of intergenerational interaction, the need to integrate elderly people into modern society, which in turn determines the continuity of education, its going beyond age limits and ensures the natural entry of adults into a new stage of life and adaptation to it. At the beginning of the last century, various medical organizations merged into national medical associations in many European countries. At the end of 2019, there are 140 medical associations, public associations, and social foundations in Russia that make a significant contribution to the development of Russian healthcare, the preservation and enhancement of the traditions of Russian physicians, and long-term scientific and practical, humanitarian and educational activities. Representatives of these associations hold plenums, conferences, publish magazines, engage in social activities and informal medical education of the population. In this regard, both informal adult education and the definition of informal medical education for various categories of the adult population realities are becoming relevant.