[The attitude of medical workers to professional self-education and system of post-graduate medical education in Russia].

The article presents analysis of changes in attitudes of medical practitioners toward professional self-education and barriers to increasing level of education in system of continuing medical education from beginning of its implementation in 2013 to 2020. The most important factor for medical workers motivation is internal factor: more than 90% of respondents indicated acquiring new knowledge and personal development as motivation both in 2020 and in 2014. However, in 2020, 63% of respondents are not ready to pay for their own education. So, medical workers are less interested to invest in their own professional development while interest in obtaining new knowledge and personal growth was soundly expressed. The alarming trend is in the fact that proportion of medical practitioners who consider professionally oriented reading necessary for self-education decreased in 2020. The medical workers also noted mistrust and several subjectively perceived barriers for professional development in the system of continuing medical education.