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Distance education for doctors may be banned in Russia

20 February 2025 02:31 (UTC +04:00)

The State Duma's Science and Higher Education Committee has supported an amendment that completely bans distance learning for doctors and pharmacists, including in colleges and universities, APA reports quoting TASS.

The authors of the amendment were a group of deputies headed by the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. The amendment is being introduced for the second reading of the bill, which, in the version of the first reading, prohibited the use of exclusively electronic or distance learning in the implementation of basic educational programs of secondary and higher medical, as well as pharmaceutical education.

"The amendment establishes a ban on distance and electronic learning in medical education programs," explained the committee's chairman, Sergei Kabyshev, at a meeting.