The impact of subject education on the level of knowledge and professional motivations of physicians in the field of osteoporosis was evaluated. The investigation enrolled 145 physicians of 12 specialties from the therapeutic-and-prophylactic institutions of Moscow or the Moscow Region, who attended courses on current approaches to diagnosing and treating osteoporosis (the cycle duration being 72 hours). The educated answered the questions of an osteoporosis knowledge test and the attitudes and professional locus of physician control questionnaires before the courses and after their completion. Basic testing showed that the physicians of the Moscow Region had noticeable knowledge deficit in this field. Subject refinement significantly improved the physicians' awareness although it cannot achieve the highest level of knowledge. Moreover, after training completion, the physicians displayed higher assessments of their qualification level in osteoporosis and internality in their relations with a patient and towards to the external circumstances affecting the quality of medical care to osteoporotic patients. It is most expedient to make subject education in the physicians who most poorly orient in the problem since the increment of the baseline level of knowledge decreases after education.