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On the 14th of February 2014 Deputy Minister of Health in Russia signed a letter addressed to the heads of higher educational institutions of the country. The letter says that due to the inclusion of osteopathy in the list of specialties of higher education in NWSMU n. a. I.I. Mechnikov, the first osteopathy chair in Russia has been organized according to the rector’s order.
The chair stuff will be presented by teachers from the Institute of Osteopathy. Dmitry Mokhov, director of the Institute, is appointed as the head of osteopathy chair. The chair will begin its work in September 2014 and its main tasks will include the primary training of osteopaths as well as education of teachers of osteopathy. In this regard the following programs were developed: professional retraining program in the specialty of osteopathy and cycle program of thematic improvement "Methodological approaches to the teaching of osteopathy”.
The letter emphasizes that the chair of osteopathy has highly qualified stuff and good educational base, which is sufficient to carry out training of the graduated osteopaths.