This article describes the experience of training primary care physicians in the field of medical rehabilitation. The existing procedure for the arrangement of medical rehabilitation prescribes its rules and order of implementation in medical primary health care organizations both in outpatient and day patient settings. The Pacific State Medical University (PSMU) runs training programs for primary care physicians within the 31.05.01 educational program “General Medicine”, direction “02 Healthcare”. In accordance with the curriculum, a training program “Medical Rehabilitation” that includes both lectures and training sessions was developed. This program is aimed at forming the necessary competencies of future primary care physicians in implementing and monitoring the effectiveness of the patient’s medical rehabilitation. Training is carried out at the facilities of the PSMU Institute of Clinical Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine by specialists having experience in medical rehabilitation and having completed the program “Modern aspects of specialist training in the field of physical and rehabilitation medicine”.