The Mongolian higher education, until the
dissolution of the former Soviet Union, had been developed on whole dependency on the
Russian education system. The curriculum, subjects and technology of NMUM were almost the
same ones used in Eastern Europe, especially in the former Soviet Union. Now, a
restructuring in the training system for doctors is in progress, with the aim of meeting
international standarts of education and traning, and the higher medical education systems
main goal is to prepare doctors by demand of our country. There are three stages of
education in NMUM.
1.Undergraduate education includes basic
science trainig, medical science and premedical medicine
trainig, study of clinical medicine.
2.Graduate education includes first: specialist education (general practitioners,
master degree of science),
second: subspecialization of doctors of science degree.
3.Postgraduate education or continuing education.
Today, more than 1600 students are atusying in the NMUM, and 1062 of them have been
training at the Faculty Medicine, 158 - at Faculty of Traditional Medicine, 116 - at the
Faculty of Hygiene and Health Managment, 165 - at the Faculty if Dentistry, 101 - at the
Faculty of Pharmacy. On the other hand, about 100 doctors are studying in the master
training course and 50 doctors in the Ph.D degree training. The objectives of graduate
education are to educate specialists with self study skills, train them with Medical
Science degree or without it and produce a new category of doctors called family
physicians, who would effectively treat more than 90% of illnesses in both urban and
rural communities. Currently, our most important and biggest problem in the health
insurance system is how to increase quality of physicians. Since the 1991s
changes in the political area, the Goverment has sought to reorientate completely the
training of health personnel away from previous models and base training materials along
Western lines. This will include more foreword training in Mongolian language,
instead of in Russian, while locally adapting training by using English-language
literature as a model.