About department

The Department of Medical Law of the Kazakh National Medical University named after S.D. Asfendiyarov was created in 2018.

Since 2019, the head of the department of “Medical Law” is Lidia Bashirovna Bogatyreva, who in 2023 successfully defended her dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Law at the Varna Free University on the topic: “Organization of the healthcare system: problems of legal regulation in the context of a pandemic of infectious diseases.”

In addition, Bogatyreva L.B. combines scientific, teaching and practical activities, representing the interests of the university in court, and also specializes in protecting the rights and legitimate interests of medical workers.

The department trains students at the undergraduate level. Together with the Department of Jurisprudence of the Abai KazNPU, a master’s degree program “Medical Law” was developed, which is currently being updated.

The purpose of the department’s activities

Carrying out legal training for medical and pharmaceutical workers, providing future medical and pharmaceutical workers with the optimal amount of legal knowledge that allows them to make reasoned decisions of a legal nature when carrying out their professional activities.

Nowadays, the medical community is more aware than ever of the need to possess medico-legal knowledge. The rapid development of modern legislation, increased demands for the provision of quality medical care, and evidence of adverse outcomes of medical intervention convincingly indicate the need to increase legal knowledge in the medical profession.

Today it is difficult to overestimate the importance of legal knowledge for medical workers. In this connection, the development of educational, methodological, scientific and practical support for legal training of medical and pharmaceutical workers, improvement of the organization of the educational process for teaching legal disciplines at a medical university is of particular relevance.

The main objectives of the department are:

Implementation of educational, educational, methodological and scientific work

Organization and conduct of scientific research

Study and use of domestic and international experience in training health care personnel

Creation of the necessary conditions for obtaining quality education aimed at developing a professionally competent personality

Implementation of the youth policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and KazNMU named after. S.D. Asfendiyarova

Development of creative, spiritual and physical capabilities of the individual, formation of strong foundations of morality and healthy lifestyle

Fostering citizenship and patriotism in students

Instilling in students moral and psychological readiness to perform work in their specialty

Development of educational literature and teaching materials

Compliance with the principles and norms of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and internal regulations

Implementation of a 3-language training program

Introduction of innovative teaching technologies into the educational process of legal training of medical education specialists

Improving the quality of training of specialists through the implementation of practice-oriented training, the use of new achievements in legal science and practice in practical classes, when students perform practical tasks and cases, and the organization of independent work

Improving the forms and methods of students’ independent work, increasing the demands of teaching staff on this type of educational work

Professional development of teaching staff.