HIV epidemic development in Russia poses serious threat to national welfare and thus makes educating health care professionals in HIV/AIDS issues a priority. Developing and elaborating of relevant educational programs, organizing the process of eduction, devising and implementing of novel educational approaches are possible only on the basis of further research into the organizational, clinical, pathogenetic, epidemiological and preventive aspects of HIV infection and AIDS. That is what has made reasons for the expansion and intensive development of HIV medicine as a unique speciality in the system of higher and advanced medical education. Besides HIV infection, socially important infections include chronic viral hepatites, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis. The newly formed Socially Important Infections Chair is intended for providing a complex of educational programs to specialists in different fields of health care. The interdisciplinary approach to the development of a human resource specialising in socially important infections implies the reasonability and expediency of implementation of all officially adopted forms of education, including the evaluation and introduction of novel educational technologies, integration of education and research, internship at worksites, and remote and mixed forms of learning.