Информационно-консультативная система по пульмонологии

The article discusses a model of informative-and-consultative system (ICS) in pulmonology developed in Pulmonology Research Institute and intended for practitioners and medical students. Modern medicine involves great knowledge. Pulmonology integrates a lot of specialties in such fields as respiratory failure, bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc. It is a problem for a medical student, a rising pulmonologist, a general practitioner and a specialist of another field of medicine to acquire constantly growing pulmonologic knowledge. The aim of this study was to develop a ICS structure adapted for the permanently enlarging and changing knowledge in pulmonology and handling it according to the evidencebased medicine.