Training lawyers for medical and pharmaceutical markets in Russia

Abstract

Market transformations in Russia have led to the formation and development of new types and spheres of economic activity, new markets, and new types of services. The most dynamically developing markets in modern Russia are the market for medical services and the pharmaceutical market. The huge potential of medical and pharmaceutical markets in Russia attracts more and more new economic agents to them, including dishonest ones, which cannot be ignored by the legislation and law enforcement. In connection with the abovementioned, over the last decade, an active process has been underway to formulate and develop legislation that regulates the issues of protecting citizens' health, public health, circulation of medicaments and other health products. The abovementioned causes the need for proper legal support for the activities of economic entities in these markets, as well as for health sector management. Without organizing the legal work in the field of "medicine and pharmaceuticals" in modern conditions, it is impossible to level out emerging legal risks in these markets, effectively manage business, regulate these markets at supranational, national and regional levels. In connection with everything mentioned above, today there is an urgent need for training lawyers who are capable of solving problems connected with medical and pharmaceutical markets. The article describes the current situation in Russian higher education institutions regarding these directions of legal training. The author notes that in a number of foreign countries (first of all, in those where medicine and pharmaceuticals, medical and pharmaceutical science gained strong development) the terms 'medical law' and 'pharmaceutical law' are long-established.