One of the oldest medical universities in southern Ukraine is Odessa Medical University. Opened in 1900 just as a faculty, today it has the most modern material and technical base for medical diagnostic, educational and scientific work. New achievements in medical science are constantly being introduced into the educational process and practice, including endoscopic, transplantological, laparoscopic technologies and others.
History of University
Odessa Medical University
traces its history to the opening of the same name faculty on the basis of the Novorossiysk University. One of the supporters of its founding was Nikolai Pirogov, a well-known surgeon, scientist, and naturalist. After the reorganization in 1920, the faculty grew into a medical academy, two years later renamed into a
medical institute. The
university acquired
university status in 1994. Then he received the name Odessa
State Medical University. The innovations did not end there.
The university has something to be proud of for its more than a hundred-year history of existence. International recognition, the availability of world-class specialists, participation in the most important state programs, prospects for further development - all this became the basis for signing the Decree of the President of Ukraine on assigning the educational institution national status in August 2010. The university was renamed the Odessa National Medical University.
Learning process
The educational process is adapted to the Bologna system and includes two-phase education. It implies an independent system of expert assessment of students' knowledge and skills, testing, a credit-module system, a distance learning method and student mobility.
The material and technical base of the educational institution includes 6 faculties, 62 departments, 3 research institutes, 3 university clinics and 27 regional diagnostic and treatment centers.
Training is provided by 840 teachers. The academic staff of the university is composed of 2 academicians, 47 members of specialized scientific councils, 3 honored researchers, 4 corresponding members of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, 21 honored workers of science and technology, 19 honored doctors of Ukraine, 7 laureates of prestigious state and international awards.
About 6,000 students study at the faculties of the university, among them more than 1,000 are from 57 foreign countries. Teaching is conducted in three languages: Ukrainian, Russian and English. The administration of the university constantly invites leading experts of world medicine from foreign countries for academic work, conducting open lectures. In the university you can also get postgraduate education.
Odessa Medical University is considered the leading educational medical institution in Ukraine, which constantly introduces the latest technology in educational, scientific and medical business.
Since 1994, the university has been headed by the famous academician of the NAMS Valery Zaporozhan, who has a number of other academic ranks and degrees.
University faculties
The training of specialists at the level of world standards, the development of scientific research, and the improvement of the region’s healthcare system is carried out thanks to the excellent infrastructure and material and technical base available at Odessa Medical University. Faculties on the basis of the university train future medical workers at the stages of undergraduate and postgraduate education (in internship, master's program). It:
- Medical faculties (medical business, medical and preventive care, pediatrics).
- Dental
- Pharmaceutical.
- International.
- Faculty of Postgraduate Education.
- Medical College.
The university continues to successfully operate scientific and pedagogical schools that have received worldwide fame. These are obstetric-gynecological, anesthesiological, neurological, pediatric, biochemical, ophthalmological, immunological, sanitary-hygienic, radiological, therapeutic, pharmacological, physiological, surgical scientific schools. The luminaries of the nineteenth-century surgery, such as Pirogov M.I. and Sklifosovsky M.V., stood at the origins of the creation of the latter.
Medical faculties
Initially, the medical faculty was divided into medical and pediatric. Now, a number of broader areas are offered that the Odessa National Medical University offers. Faculties of medicine provide training in the following specialties:
- "Medical business",
- "Medical and preventive care"
- "Pediatrics".
These faculties provide for full-time education, the duration of which is 6 years. Students are admitted on a state (budget) and contract basis. After mastering the developed program, the graduate is assigned the qualification “doctor”, his professional activity is a trainee doctor, intern doctor.
Faculty of Dentistry
Odessa Medical University created an excellent clinical base, including its own university dental clinics, equipped with modern equipment, for the training of general dentists.
At the theoretical and clinical departments during the first and second courses, students receive basic knowledge. In the next three courses, they gain practical knowledge. In total, the Faculty of Dentistry has 8 departments, 6 of which are specialized. These are the departments of therapeutic dentistry, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, general dentistry, orthopedic dentistry.
Faculty of Pharmacy
At this faculty, training is carried out both stationary and in absentia. Practical training is carried out in botanical gardens, a multidisciplinary clinic of the university, a training and production pharmacy, and chemical and pharmaceutical enterprises in the Odessa region.
After internships, graduates are offered such positions as the head of a pharmacy or its department; pharmacist, senior pharmacist; specialist in the production of cosmetics and medicines; marketing manager in the field of pharmaceutical activities.
International Faculty
In the 60s, significant changes occurred in the system of training foreign citizens developed at the university. The dean’s office for work with students of foreign countries and the department of the Russian language were created. Since 1990, at the international faculty, graduates from other countries have been trained in internships, graduate schools, postgraduate courses, and continuing education courses have been opened. Later, a preparatory department and language courses appeared (Russian and Ukrainian languages), after successful completion of which applicants receive a state certificate and are enrolled in the first year of any of the faculties offered by Odessa Medical University or another educational institution of the country.
Since 1996, the teaching of disciplines has been conducted in English and French.
Medical College
The college was created as a structural unit of the university. There is training at 2 departments - dental and nursing. The first prepares junior specialists in the field of “Orthopedic Dentistry”. The 2-year full-time training program is designed for secondary school graduates.
Applicants with secondary specialized education are admitted to the nursing department. An evening form of study is offered for a period of 3 years. Graduates receive a bachelor's degree upon graduation.
In addition, the university has a faculty of postgraduate education.
Helpful information
On the official website of the university you can always find all the relevant information about admission to the Odessa Medical University. The passing score can be found by looking at the table with the list of competitive items in the "Admission Rules" section. The site also contains all the information about the timing of admission, faculties, specialties.
At all levels of training, regardless of funding sources, a competitive basis for admission to the Odessa Medical University is established. Tuition fees (one year)
for each of the areas of training usually
indicated
attached to the admission rules. For the 2014-15 academic year, it is, depending on the specialty, 5,800-18,000 hryvnias (approximately 16,120-50,000 rubles) for Ukrainian citizens and 14,387 - 23,979 hryvnias (40,000 - 67,000 rubles) for foreign citizens . Consultations on the payment procedure or other issues can be obtained by filling out an information request and sending it to the university’s electronic or postal address, which are indicated on its official website.
Achievements
Odessa Medical University famous for its unique designs. In recent years, research institutes of regenerative and reconstructive biomedicine, valeology, clinical biophysics and others have been created on its basis. Within the framework of the state project, the first university multidisciplinary clinic in Ukraine, a family medicine clinic, and a dental clinic were opened. Successful joint activities with local public health authorities of the medical and diagnostic centers of eye microsurgery, cardiorematology, pediatric cardiology, osteosynthesis, laser surgery, toxicology and others.
Odessa University has its publishing and printing complex, where scientific journals are published:
- Odessa Medical Journal.
- "Integrative anthropology."
- "Achievements of biology and medicine."
- "Regenerative and reconstructive biomedicine."
- Textbooks of the series “Library of the student-doctor”.
Here, scientific works of university scientists are published in Ukrainian, English, Russian, French.
The international cooperation
The main thrust of the university’s international cooperation is the establishment and further development of scientific and educational agreements with universities and organizations of other countries. Its main content is joint scientific seminars, conferences, studies, international meetings, exhibitions, student training in jointly developed educational programs. Foreign professors are constantly invited to the university to give lectures.
Cooperation agreements were signed with universities in Poland, Italy, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, the USA, India, Iran, and Vietnam.
The prestige of the university, special programs for foreign students, prestigious specialties, practice at university medical diagnostic centers - all this is included in the main set of criteria according to which Odessa Medical University is chosen. Reviews about the institution are mostly positive, but sometimes there are complaints about the "unbearable complexity of learning", difficulties in allocating time. An analysis of data from employers allows us to judge the high level of training of graduates, and words of gratitude to university clinics only contribute to increasing the rating of an educational institution.