Moscow hospital school - а pionner of military-medical education in Russia

The article is devoted to 310-anniversary of the publication of the decree of Peter I on the construction of a military hospital in Moscow where in 1707 was opened a hospital school for 50 students for the training of doctors, which became the first regular medical educational institution in Russia. In 1786 hospital schools were reformed into hospital medical-surgical colleges and in 1798 two of them into the Medical-Surgical Academies. These medical institutions were the main in training of medical staff and played a significant role in medical ensuring in Russia in XVIII century. From the first days the Moscow hospital was a clinical institution, combining treatment and education. The Moscow hospital formed the basis for the Russian clinical medicine; hospital school graduates have made a great contribution to the organization and development of the Russian health care.

history of military medicine in Russia, hospital schools, military and medical education in the XVIII century