Planning the first training events for the mid-level medical personnel in Dagestan in the first half of the 20th century

Introduction. Modern society is undergoing significant changes in healthcare and medical education. Various reforms are going on, and efforts are made to effectively train future medical professionals and organize healthcare services for the population at a higher level. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that the issue of medical personnel training must be studied using an interdisciplinary approach, that is, by studying history, medicine, and education. In Dagestan, as in many regions of our country, the development of healthcare and medical schools expanded after accession to Russia. The process of developing new territories and settling them was accompanied by the opening of medical institutions and the first medical schools, which replicated the healthcare and education systems of Central Russia. In this article, the author aims to highlight the issue of training mid-level medical personnel in the region. To this end, the author set the task of demonstrating the changes that occurred in the republic in the training of mid-level medical personnel after the establishment of Soviet power.
The materials and methods. The research was conducted using an important methodological principle for understanding the historical process, including the principles of scientific objectivity and historicism, as well as traditional methods of scientific inquiry used in historical science – comparative historical and statistical ones – which allow us to trace the dynamics of the development of medicine and the training of medical personnel in Dagestan. Events and phenomena were examined within a specific historical context.
The research results. Documentary materials from the Central State Archives of the Republic of Dagestan were the primary source of information. Their discovery served as the basis for covering the development of medicine and training medical personnel in Dagestan in the first half of the 20th century.
Discussion and Conclusion. It has been concluded that during the first decade of Soviet power, not only quantitative but also qualitative changes occurred in the healthcare system and the training of medical personnel. A study of the issues associated with the training of mid-level medical personnel in the first half of the 20th century clearly demonstrates that the formation of a corps of mid-level medical workers in Dagestan was consistent with the general changes that took place in Russia after the establishment of Soviet power

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