[Ten-year experience of the postgraduate education for general practitioners].

The article summarizes a 10-year experience of teaching general practitioners in internship. Different kind of teaching in the 1-year term was described as well as given questionnaire design results of internists to be. Intership organization development was considered in the article, it will help the work of general practitioners to be more effective.

[Heart sounds in glomerular nephritis].

Enrolled in the present study were 58 patients with acute glomerulonephritis, 58 with chronic glomerulonephritis and 16 controls. Chronic glomerulonephritis patients demonstrated a significant decrease in the amplitude in the first heart sound and increase in the amplitude of the second sound. The third and fourth sounds were detected in 61 patient with glomerulonephritis.

[Stable-functional osteosynthesis of the femur].

The article deals with experience in the surgical treatment of 405 patients with closed and open fractures of the femur. The method of choice in operative management of fractures was stably-functional osteosynthesis--mechanically secure fixation providing the possibility of excluding immobilization in the postoperative period. Stable fixation and early activity promoted timely consolidation of the fractures with simultaneous restoration of a normal range of movements and reduction of the terms of treatment due to coincidence of the periods of consolidation and rehabilitation.