“Zemsky Doktor” program: formal conditions and actual implementation

The article considers a program for co-financing compensation payments to medical workers who arrived (moved) to work in medical institutions located in rural areas, which is conditioned by the need to secure qualified medical personnel in such territories. The analysis of legislative initiatives aimed at the legal differentiation of the leave regime provided for rest after work, and leave established as exemption from work in connection with pregnancy and childbirth, adoption of a child, for childcare, for the duration of study leave. Practical situations concerning the regulation of the possibility of extending a fixed-term employment contract with a medical worker working under the “Zemsky Doctor” program are considered.