The article provides a detailed analysis of the educational complex in the discipline "Outpatient therapy", which is taught at the relevant departments of RNIMU named after N.I. Pirogov and the department of the same name VSMU named after N.N. Burdenko. Both of these universities are part of the East European NOMK, which was created to implement the Strategy for the Development of Medical Science in the Russian Federation for the period until 2025. The fundamental difference between the educational process in the two universities is the different distribution of the hourly load across semesters and the methodological approach to studying the discipline. Various approaches to teaching discipline in universities are aimed at achieving a common goal - the training of medical personnel focused on achievement of a common goal - the training of medical personnel oriented to the professional standard “Physician-general practitioner (district general practitioner)” and the provision of primary health care. The experience accumulated by the staff of the departments allows us to fully approach the training of specialists and, quite justifiably, to begin interaction between structures for the exchange of this experience.