Editing Feldsher (section)

==Education and training==
Training for feldshers can include up to four years of post-secondary education, including medical diagnosis and prescribing.<ref name="Kazak"/> They have clinical responsibilities that may be considered midway between physicians and nurses. They do not have full [[healthcare provider requisites|professional qualifications]] as physicians.<ref>[http://www.ccjm.org/content/70/11/937.full.pdf Floyd K et al. Health-systems Efficiency in the Russian Federation: Tuberculosis Control. ''Bulletin of the World Health Organization'' 2006; 84(1): 1-80 (PDF)]</ref>

The training program typically includes basic pre-clinical sciences: [[anatomy]], [[physiology]], [[pharmacology]], [[microbiology]], laboratory subjects, etc.; and advanced clinical sciences: [[internal medicine]] and [[therapeutics]], [[neurology]] and [[psychiatry]], [[obstetrics]], [[infectious disease]]s and [[epidemiology]], [[preventive medicine]], [[surgery]], and [[Major trauma#Specialized care|trauma]], [[anesthesiology]] and [[intensive care]], [[pediatrics]], and other clinical subjects such as [[ophthalmology]], [[otorhinolaryngology]], [[dermatology]], and [[sexually transmitted infection]]s, [[ambulance service]] and [[pre-hospital emergency medicine]], and [[battlefield medicine]].