In 2004 the principal legislative changes were accepted in the field of postgraduate medical education in Czech Republic (law No. 95/2004 Code). Replacement of two-stage system of specialized education by its one- stage option has brought some problems and according to our opinion did not lead to clear improvement of postgraduate edu-cation, more likely the other way around.
Our effort to improve the quality of process of postgraduate specialization in internal medicine brought us to creation of own local system of postgraduate education using the next 4 basic principles: principle of robust internal base as a platform for the following specialization, principle of repeating to fix the knowledge, principle of knowledge control and last but not least principle of active participation in educational system.