Generational experience: nine decades of impeccable training of professional personnel at the Rostov-on-Don Anti-Plague Institute

The Department of Professional Retraining and Advanced Training of specialists of the Rostov-on-Don Anti-Plague Institute of Rospotrebnadzor is one of the divisions on the basis of which specialists are trained to work with pathogenic biological agents and to participate in anti-epidemic measures. An analytical review of information from literary sources and databases of the CyberLeninka and eLibrary electronic libraries, as well as archival materials from the Institute’s library collection, has been carried out. The review provides information on the scientific and practical activities of the Department of professional retraining and advanced training of specialists from the moment of its foundation to the present. Attention is paid to the various stages of the formation of the department, to the staff of the department who have made a significant contribution to the development of Russian science. The experience gained over the years of the department’s work has allowed us to create an effective training system for specialists of various specialties working with particularly dangerous infections.

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