Medicine is one of the most important areas that school graduates pay attention to when they are faced with the question of which of the higher educational institutions of Russia to enter to receive further education. This industry is popular and respected among applicants and ordinary citizens. After all, doctors devote themselves to saving the lives of others, contribute to the recovery of patients after serious injuries, and help a new person to be born. However, before starting independent work in a medical institution, the future specialist needs to spend more than one year at the desk of the corresponding university, where the best specialists of the country will teach him this difficult, but important specialty. In many cities of our vast country there are medical institutes and academies. This article is a kind of mini-review of such institutions. Perhaps, having read it, the applicant will be able to finally make a choice and devote his life to this always demanded profession.
The history of the formation of medicine in Russia. First Medical Institute
It is believed that one of the best (if not the best) in our country universities for the training of future specialists is MGMU them. Sechenov. This abbreviation stands for First Moscow State Medical University. It was founded in the 18th century during the reign of Empress Elizabeth. So 1758 was a kind of starting point in the development and formation of medicine in Russia. The first medical institute was created by such outstanding personalities and prominent specialists as Politkovsky, Zybelin, Veniaminov, Siberian. Well, and, of course, the history of this institution is closely connected with Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov. In addition, the world famous surgeon Sklifosovsky N.V. worked here, for 13 years he headed the department and created a clinical school of surgery. Today at the University. Sechenov simultaneously trained more than 15 thousand students, not only from Russia, but also from other countries. In fact, this medical institute in Moscow is an international educational institution. He is rightfully considered the best in the state, because it was in him that the foundations of modern medicine were born.
Followers of Sechenovka: Pirogov Medical Institute
RNIMU them. N. Pirogova leads more than a century of history. This abbreviation stands for Russian National Research Medical University. It all began in 1906, when the Higher Women's Courses were organized in Moscow, and later they were transformed into VMMU (Second Moscow State University). And already in 1930, the Second Medical Institute was allocated from it. In the mid-50s of the last century, the university was named after N. Pirogov. Today, this medical institute in Moscow occupies a leading position among other scientific medical, educational, methodological and medical centers of Russia.
However, not only the capital of our country is famous for such institutions: other cities also have well-known universities, they have something to oppose Moscow. In total, there are more than 90 medical educational institutions in Russia. Let's talk about some of them.
St. Petersburg - the cultural capital
In this city is the first pediatric university not only of our country, but of the whole world. SPbGPMU - St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University - was founded in 1925. The merit of the formation and organization of this university belongs to Yulia Mendeleeva, who was the director of the institution from the day it was founded until 1949. In 2010, new departments open here, two years later the university is assigned the status of a university, and in February 2013, practical medical activity begins in the building of the Perinatal Center.
SPbSMU named after academician I. Pavlov
St. Petersburg State Medical University was founded in 1897. Today this university includes educational, scientific and medical units. Among his graduates, the following famous people can be noted: Alexander Rosenbaum, Nikolai Anichkov, Valery Lebedev, Mikhail Shats. Over the years, SPbSMU has trained more than 60 thousand doctors, and today it continues to actively develop and work, maintains the standards of national medicine at a high level. This medical institute in St. Petersburg has a powerful clinical base, which includes 17 clinics, 43 large clinics and hospitals, including the world's first infectious diseases hospital named after S. Botkin, Children's Hospital N. Filatov, Center for Heart, Blood and Endocrinology V. Almazov, Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology. D. Ott, Psychoneurological Institute. V. Bekhterev, Research Institute of Experimental Medicine RAMS.
In addition to the above, in St. Petersburg there are other, no less well-known medical institutes, such as the Medical Academy . I. Mechnikova, Chemical Pharmaceutical Academy, Institute for Advanced Medical Studies.
Educational institutions of Siberia
This region of Russia is also famous for its medical traditions. For example, the history of Siberian State Medical University has more than 125 years. So, in 1888, a medical faculty was opened as part of the Tomsk Imperial University, and in 1930 it acquired the status of an independent university, in 1992 it became a university.
In Novosibirsk in 1935, a teaching staff was assembled, which began its work in the newly organized medical educational institution. In 2005, this university changed its status from academy to university. Today, more than 5,000 students study here and more than 1,700 employees work. At Novosibirsk State Medical University, training is conducted at eight faculties and 76 departments.
Irkutsk medical institutes
ISMU is the first higher medical educational institution in eastern Russia, as well as one of the oldest in Siberia. It was opened in 1919 as a medical department at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. And just a year later, he stood out in an independent administrative unit - the medical faculty. The origins of this university were outstanding personalities, professors - the elite of the Kazan school, such as N. Bushmakin (the largest organizer and anatomist, rector of the university), N. Shevyakov (world famous biologist), N. Sinakevich (surgeon), V. Donskoy (founder Museum of Pathology) and many others. In the first year of its existence, the departments of pathological anomaly, normal anatomy and histology with a museum and a laboratory, bacteriology, topographic anatomy, operative surgery, and medical diagnostics began to function here. The beginning of hospital surgery. Throughout its history, this educational institution has grown and developed, and now in 2012 the ISMU receives university status.
There is another, no less well-known medical educational institution in Irkutsk - the State Academy of Postgraduate Education. This institution begins its history in 1979. In the first decade of the Academy’s existence, the geography of its students included 11 administrative centers, that is, a region that covers more than 60 percent of the territory of Russia. Students were attracted by the very serious attitude of the teaching staff to their duties, as well as the qualified teaching of teaching material. The Institute expanded rapidly, new faculties were formed, the number of laboratories, departments grew, new clinical bases were formed. The organization of classes was significantly improved, as well as the technical equipment of the educational process. Today, this university holds a leading position among medical schools in the country.
Samara State Medical University
The Samara Medical Institute has gone a long, largely innovative way in its history, as a result it has become one of the largest and most respected universities in Russia. It all began in 1919, when the dean of the faculty of medicine at Samara University, professor V. Gorinevsky, was elected at a gala public meeting. Already in 1922 the first graduation of doctors took place (there were only 37 of them). Out of the graduates of the first years of the faculty's work, remarkable scientists and public health organizers, known throughout the country, came out. This is the future Minister of Health G. Miterev, T. Eroshevsky, E. Kavetsky, G. Lavsky, I. Askalonov, V. Klimovitsky, I. Kukolev, Y. Grinberg and many others. Eight years later, the Faculty of Medicine stands out as an independent university, at the same time new institute clinics are being created, as well as forms of collaboration between society and medical science.
Samara State Medical University during the Great Patriotic War
A special page in the life of Samara State Medical University is related to the military medical training of specialist doctors. In fact, it was one of the pioneers of the traditions of military medical education in Russia. The country was on the verge of war with Germany and urgently needed military doctors. Everything was here: a worthy educational and scientific base, and the availability of our own clinical institutions, and a serious faculty. All these factors played a decisive role, and the first military medical institute of the country is being created on the basis of Samara State Medical University. In just four months, he was reorganized into a higher military educational institution. Over the years of the Second World War, intensive scientific research did not stop here, the educational process did not stop for a single day. During this period, 432 medical doctors were trained, most of whom went to the front.
Kuban State Medical University
In the south of the country, the Kuban State Medical University is considered the most powerful medical university . It consists of 7 faculties, 64 departments, as well as a dental clinic, obstetric and gynecological clinic. As for the teaching staff, it numbers 624 people, teaching more than four thousand students. It was organized in 1920. The newly created departments were headed by such prominent medical figures as I. Savchenko (I. Mechnikov’s student, a dedicated researcher of cholera vaccine), N. Petrov (founder of Russian oncology), A. Smirnov (I. Pavlov’s student) and others. Since 2005, this university has been accredited as a university.
Finally
In modern Russia, the development of healthcare is 90 percent dependent on the quality of the educational process and the qualified training of young specialists. Medical institutes, one might say, hold in their hands the future and health of the whole nation. The main task of these universities is not only to teach, but also to develop, as well as to pursue an offensive policy in the field of healthcare.