Assessment of the amount of additional financing for social support of medical students studying by targeting of state medical organizations of the Irkutsk region
Background: In the Irkutsk region, there is a need to expand measures of social support for target medical students. The regional Legislative Assembly has begun to consider the implementation of appropriate measures. As a result, there was a need to assess the amount of financial resources necessary for their realization.Aims: The development and scientific justification of social support measures for medical students studying by targeting of state medical organizations of the Irkutsk region. Materials and methods: The research design was based on the use of the statistical research method, which involved the development of special tools. The object of the study was 2080 students of the Irkutsk State Medical University of 1-6 courses in the specialties of «General Medicine» and «Pediatrics» from 2016 to 2019. Results: Approaches were developed, combined into an organizational technology for assessing the amount of additional financing for social support of students of the target form of training, which includes nine stages. In the course of its implementation, the following are being consistently carried out: study of measures being implemented; student enrollment figures, including targeted of state medical organizations of the subject of the Russian Federation; assessment of the average student dropout and forecasting the number of students, taking it into account; determination and prediction the number of target students with high performance indicators; proper assessment of the amount of additional funding for social support of worthy target students. Conclusions: the experience presented can be implemented in other RF regions and in the development of measures of social support for future specialists in various fields.