The OBJECTIVE of the study was to show the effectiveness of multilevel situational tasks in the generalization and analysis of personal and collegial experience of surgeons.METHODS AND MATERIALS. Research and evaluation of archival materials of surgical departments and multilevel situational tasks created on their basis.RESULTS. More than 100 surgical case histories have been analyzed, the results of which have been published in two volumes. Professional retraining and/or thematic certification development for 15 years (2002-2017) was received by surgeons, endoscopists, coloproctologists, transfusiologists and thoracic surgeons, more than 713 people in total, as well as interns - 119 people, residents - 104, postgraduate students - 3 and doctoral students - 2. A total of 941 people, including doctors of other specialties and foreign trainees.CONCLUSION. The work clearly demonstrates that it is impossible to separate university and postgraduate education, this process is continuous, it is one and indivisible, consistent and continuous. We have presented one of the pedagogical techniques in the form of multilevel situational tasks, which allows us to solve many educational and methodological issues.