As Rustam Minnikhanov said at the Board of the Ministry of Health on February, 2012, “Doctors should not only be able to work on the modern equipment, but also to know English".
With change of appearance of our institutions, experts should also change", - R.N.Minnikhanov has noted. According to the order of the President of RТthe decision on development of a plan of action on raising a level of knowledge of the foreign language by medical workers of the Republic of Tatarstan was accepted. In this connection Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the company EF Education First begins realization of the project on training doctors on English language.
The course of training will allow doctors to communicate with foreign patients - visitors of the capital in case of need of rendering them a medical care, and also with the participants of a forthcoming Universiade 2013.