Overview
- The draft order sets mentorship from one to three years by specialty, with three years for fields such as neonatology, therapy, oncology, plastic, cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, two years for many residency programs including anesthesiology and psychiatry, and 1.5 years for areas like radiology, cosmetology and emergency medicine.
- Terms are reduced to as little as one year for those employed in rural settlements, towns up to 50,000 people and the Donetsk and Luhansk republics as well as the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
- Three-year supervision applies only to selected clinical specialties, while areas such as nutrition and labor hygiene, sanitary‑epidemiological organization, aviation and diving medicine and pharmaceutical specialties are exempt.
- Mentors must have at least five years’ experience in the same specialty, supervision may be in person or remote, and assignments require the mentor’s written consent and presume employment after primary accreditation.
- The order is slated to take effect on March 1, 2026 and remain in force until March 1, 2032, aligning with the new system that ties state‑funded residency places to target agreements and imposes financial penalties for refusal to fulfill obligations.