Over the last 10 years in Russia, the child population revealed a 30 percent increase in congenital and hereditary pathology, characterized by high primary incidence of congenital malformations, deformations, chromosomal disorders and variation in the rates of this disease in children in the regions and Federal districts of the Russian Federation, which leads to the increase of needs and of accessibility of the population in the medical-genetic assistance. The differences in the security of the population by Federal districts and constituent entities of the Russian Federation medical-genetic counseling and medical genetics, which is caused by an imbalance between the number of medical-genetic consultations on the Federal districts and the disproportion between the number of doctors, geneticists and population of constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Presents the regression model of the frequency of congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal disorders in children and the number of medical-genetic consultations in the Federal districts of the Russian Federation, allowing to establish the predictors of prevalence of congenital and hereditary pathology in children from 0 to 14 years. Explored the opinions of patients about satisfaction with medical care in the medical-genetic consultations at different levels as one of the criteria defining the quality of medical care in the medical-genetic consultation of the Russian Federation. Presented by modern medico-social portrait of the patient seeking medical consultation, is characterized by reproductive age (26–35 years old), employment (employees), social conditions (having separate housing), material security (income 20–30 thousand rubles) and family structure (in a registered marriage and basically not having children). Revealed a low level of awareness of patients for medico-genetic consultations at different levels about the risk factors of congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal disorders in children and methods of prevention of this pathology, which determines the later treatment of patients in the medical-genetic consultation and evidence of need to improve literacy. To improve the organization and quality of care in the medical-genetic consultations, developed guidelines for physicians and instructions for patients.

The article deals with the organization of continuing professional development of medical personnel of non-governmental network of clinics. The mechanisms, forms and methods of teaching. The results of the evaluation of training effectiveness. Proposals to further improve the system.

Ensuring the quality of medical care is one of the priority areas for reforming the medical industry. A clear definition of the criteria and indicators for the quality of medical care is necessary for external and internal evaluation of the medical services provided. The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation has prepared a new order regulating the criteria for assessing the quality of medical care - Order No. 520n of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation of 15.07.2016 «On approval of criteria for assessing the quality of care». The introduction of the main provisions of this order in medical institutions, the daily work of a general practitioner is one of the important tasks of medicine in our country today.

The search was carried out in web databases and other available sources using predetermined keywords; 67 articles were included. History of Utstein reporting and Utstein templates for resuscitation registries were elucidated as well as different approaches to quality improvement in CPR. Authors made a conclusion about necessity of large multidisciplinary programs to precipitate changes in treatment of outof-hospital cardiac arrest, CPR education and training, CPR monitoring and feedback.

The school for people with diabetes and their relatives is organized to improve the quality of life of patients, reduce the risk of severe disabling complications (blindness, peripheral circulation disorders, chronic renal failure, etc.), as well as reduce the financial costs of health care. The school is a modern form of organization of work with the population aimed at preventing possible complications of diabetes mellitus.

Modern screening systems — early detection of diseases (the equivalent of Russian prophylactic medical examination) — are now introduced in many developed countries. Prophylactic medical examination is a system of measures aimed at preserving health of the population, preventing development of diseases, reducing frequency of exacerbations of chronic diseases, development of complications, disability, mortality, and improving the quality of life. The authors presented a positive experience on increasing the availability and ensuring the proper quality of the prophylactic medical clinical examination of specific groups of adults.

Mucous dystrophies are metabolic disorders developing in the stroma of organs. Lipomatosis is localized fatty tissue growth without clear boundaries (for example, interstitial myocardial lipomatosis in obesity) or multiple lipomas (tumors of adipose tissue). In some cases, these processes are combined. Dercum’s Disease is mucous dystrophy, lipomatosis, which is characterized by the appearance of lipoma-like painful growths in the hypodermis of the upper limb, skin of the mammary glands, back, anterior abdominal wall, buttocks and thighs. This article is devoted to the issues of etiopathogenesis, clinical picture, diagnosis and treatment of this disease.

Probably every health professional knows that on 1 December the world community observes World AIDS Day, and 4 February is traditionally dedicated to World Cancer Day. In April we all observe World Health Day, and the third Sunday in June health professionals celebrate their professional holiday. Many have heard of World Blood Donor Day, No Smoking Day, World Diabetes Day. But very few people know that Day of almost forgotten, but not less terrible disease — leprosy — is celebrated in January. Today we will plunge into history and remember how our ancestors dealt with this disease, and how things are going today.