[The founding and development of day care hospitals as integral structural subunits of therapeutic and preventive care institutions]. / Stanovlenie i razvitie dnevnykh statsionarov kak neot'emlemogo strukturnogo podrazdeleniia lechebno-profilakticheskikh uchrezhdenii.

The experience gained in the complex approach to the organization of day hospitals at curative and preventive facilities in Lvov and Lvov region is described. The problems in the delivery of in-patient care for the population formed the basis for the drafting of programme aimed at developing the network of out-patient departments of active treatment of patients. The description is given of the main components of day hospitals activities, schedule of work, indications and contra-indications for the treatment of patients. The work indicators of day hospitals of different types are provided. Highlighted is the importance of this vasically new and highly effective type of health care for the population. The data on the problem-oriented training of medical directors and physicians of day hospitals at the Faculty of Advanced Training of Physicians of the Lvov Medical Institute is provided, the emphasis being placed on the inclusion of issues on the organization of day hospital activities into the curricula for students and interns.

[Experience in training of general practitioners]. / Opyt podgotovki vrachei obshchei praktiki.

The pedagogical experiment indicated that the effective training of general practitioners could be realized through the system of intern and resident training which made it necessary to prolong the term of study up to 12 weeks for interns in the out-patient departments and up to 4 months for resident physicians. The retraining of district therapists enabling them to work as general practitioners could be successfully effected at the departments of advanced medical training in the course of 5 months.

[Status and improvement in expert evaluation of temporary disability conducted by the therapeutic service]. / Sostoianie i sovershenstvovanie ékspertizy vremennoi netrudosposobnosti, osushchestvliaemoi terapevticheskoi sluzhboi.

The sociological approach was applied to study the organization and status of the expert medical evaluation of temporary disability of the therapeutic patients. 205 internists filled in self-administered questionnaires. 45.4% of those internists worked at the rural treatment and prophylactic institutions. The studies formed the basis for the development and introduction of a complex of scientifically validated measures aimed at further raising the standards of the expert medical evaluation of the working capacity at the medical institutions of the Lvov region of the Ukrainian SSR.