A seminar on clinical pharmacology was held on January 24 and 27, 2005 in Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic), with the aim of extending the teaching of clinical pharmacology to the postgraduate continuing education of family physicians. The seminar was organized as part of the Pharmaceutical Benefit Initiative Program project with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The seminar brought together 38 teachers from the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute for Training and Retraining (KSMIP and PC) and 27 representatives from various units of the Ministry of Health of the Republic (MHIF, DLO and MT, GUKV), as well as employees of various departments of the Kyrgyz State Medical Academy (KSMA).

The seminar participants listened to 32 lectures prepared by leading experts in this field of medicine. Within 2 days, the staff of the Research Institute for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, director, corresponding member of RAMS, professor, doctor of medical sciences L.S. Strachunsky and deputy. Director, MD V.V. Rafalsky gave a course on the clinical pharmacology of the main groups of antimicrobial agents and approaches in the selection of antibiotics for various infections.

The seminar was attended by Professor A. Wertheimer - Director of the Research Center of the University of the School of Pharmacology at Temple University (United States), Professor, MD A.Z. Zurdinov - head. Department of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, KSMA (Kyrgyzstan), Professor, MD N.N. Brimkulov - head. Department of hospital therapy, KSMA (Kyrgyzstan), Ph.D. S.A. Golubev - chief independent specialist in clinical pharmacology of the health service of the regional executive committee of Vitebsk (Belarus).

The conference themes were formulated jointly with the staff of the Department of Family Medicine at KSMIP and the CP and addressed the solution of the problems identified during the implementation of the Pharmaceutical Aid Initiative program. for the rational use of medicines at the primary level of public health in the Republic. The lectures given will be adapted to more than a thousand family physicians from the FGP of the Kyrgyz Republic, who undergo continuous training taking into account accepted clinical protocols and the list of essential medicines.