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 system’s 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 doctor’s 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 1991’s 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.