Д.Медведев.Встреча со студентами томских у-ов.11.02.10.Part 6

Meeting with Students of Tomsk Universities.Part 6 February 11, 2010 Tomsk Встреча со студентами томских университетов. 11 февраля 2010 года Томск Whenever I visited a small town or a rural area, I would see the same thing: sophisticated equipment and little old ladies who, it might seem, had only ever used thermometers and other simple tools, but who were now very adept at using all these new technologies. This means that our people are intelligent, talented, and open to new training. Thus, this is not just a personnel problem, although I do agree that we need to give personnel training the utmost attention. National universities are an important resource, but not the only one. Moreover, I am sure that even if a medical school does not have the status of a national university, it can train brilliant specialists and physicians. After all, you personally did not study at a national university, did you? But you still consider yourself an excellent specialist. This means that everything is going well. Thus, it is important to have well-trained personnel perhaps, this is the most important component for success but we also need to create proper conditions to ensure that our medical facilities are adequately re-equipped with new technology. You mentioned replacing imported pharmaceuticals with national brands. This sector is very important. In the USSR we produced many medicines of our own; they were mediocre in quality, but they were distributed throughout USSR pharmacy …