One of the most respected research universities in the country is the Russian State Medical University. Its history began in 1906, when a progressive public influenced the decision of the authorities to organize Moscow women's courses. After some time, the courses were transformed, and the 2nd Moscow State University began its work, the medical faculty of which in 1930 became the basis for the establishment of a medical institute, in 1956 it was named after the great doctor N. I. Pirogov.
New time
Since the Russian State Medical University has long played a leading role as a scientific, medical, educational, methodological and medical center of the country, in November 1991 the medical institute became a university, and in 2010 it was the only university of this profile received the status of a national research university.
In 2011, there was a renaming again - in connection with obtaining a new status. Now it is called the Russian National Research University named after N.I. Pirogov.
Museum
Everything that has happened with this educational institution for such a long time (more than a century!) Can be found in detail at the university museum, which was organized in 1981. A visit to the Museum of History of RNIMU is an interesting pastime, students and applicants willingly study the exposition dedicated to various periods of the university. The museum is located in the main building of the university at the address: Moscow, Ostrovityanova street, 1, on the fourth floor.
It can be traced to the whole history of domestic medicine and even the entire development of the country, because the Russian State Medical University all its activities shared the vicissitudes of life, hardships, wars, revolutions, participated in the same achievements and suffered the same losses, sharing life with all the country its manifestations, which will be described very briefly below. There are so many historical details of the university’s very long life in the museum that even a book would be small for them.
Milestones
In the month of May 1872, Count D. A. Tolstoy, as Minister of Education, agreed to the opening of the Moscow Higher Women's Courses. This private institution has been approved by special provision. Thus, in the building of the male gymnasium on Volkhonka, on November 1, the country's first courses for women by professor V.I. Gerier were inaugurated. There were at least seventy students in the first year of study, and by 1885 their number had grown to two hundred and fifty.
Initially, female students studied for two years, but in 1879 a new charter was written, and classes lasted another year. The focus was on Moscow courses, from which the Russian State Medical University subsequently grew up, historical and philological, female students studied universal and Russian history, world and Russian literature, the history of civilization and the history of art. The physics, mathematics, astronomy, and hygiene that were mandatory in 1879 were abolished, and in 1881 a new subject appeared - the history of philosophy.
The medicine
The courses worked on Volkhonka until 1873, then they moved to the Museum of Applied Knowledge - Prechistenka, and in 1877 they began to study in a building built specifically as a polytechnic museum. And only in 1906 did the next charter of the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services appear, where the opening of a new faculty, medical, was consolidated. By that time, the first - historical and philosophical - had already been added to the physical and mathematical.
Now the courses really became the basis on which the Russian State Medical University was built. In September 1906, the first lecture at the new faculty was held, and in 1908 the anatomical theater was opened for medical students , which later became the anatomical building of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. In the spring of 1912, the very first graduation of the first women doctors in Russia was already held. There were few of them so far - no more than two hundred people.
After the revolution
In October 1918, the Board of the People's Commissariat for Education established the transformation of higher women’s courses into the 2nd State University, a mixed educational institution. There are still three faculties at the newly-minted university, the same ones, but two years later a scientific society has already opened at the medical faculty. In 1921, medical students organized a commission to combat child homelessness and the fight against hunger, and at their own expense opened an orphanage.
In July 1926, the Faculty of Medicine had already held a meeting on the selection of its first graduate students, after which periodically scientific papers on medical subjects began to appear in print: in 1928, two issues of scientific articles of the faculty of medicine were published. And in 1930, the People's Commissariat for Education issued an order that reorganized the university into three completely independent institutions. So far, not the Russian State Medical University (RSMU) has appeared, but its prototype - the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute.
Independence
In 1930, the faculty was again reorganized into medical and preventive, and in addition, a second one was opened nearby. Rather - the first, very first in the country and in all world practice! It was the faculty of maternity, infancy and childhood. The future Russian State Medical University of Roszdrav continued to grow. In December 1932, another faculty was opened - medical and physical education.
True, two years later it was closed, and the other two faculties were renamed as medical and pediatric. But then a new - general medical - theoretical faculty was created. In March 1935, SSS was created - a student scientific society that still exists. And then it incorporated sixteen thematic circles. After a year, there were two faculties again - general medicine was abolished.
Prewar time
Medical students never left public work for the benefit of the capital and the country, showing extremely useful initiatives. So, in 1938, students of the institute carried out for the first time in the country a preventive examination of the entire population of the whole Moscow region, and not the smallest one. The population of the Khamovnichesky district was put on medical records.
In March 1939, by order of the People’s Commissar of Defense, a military faculty that existed until 1944 was established at the medical institute, which supplied military doctors to all the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. With the outbreak of war, a huge part of the staff, professors, teachers and students of the institute left as volunteers. In October 1941, some of the remaining were evacuated and until 1943 worked and studied in Omsk.
Post-war time
In 1948, the student of Mechnikov and Pasteur, honorary academician N.F. Gamaleya made his first speech in the walls of the future Pirogov Russian State Medical University. The topic was urgent - "Microbacterium tuberculosis." In 1954, it began experiments at the Central Scientific Research Laboratory - the Central Research Laboratory for Basic Medical Research.
Professors and students continued to participate in all endeavors and help accomplishments that took place in the country. In 1956, the institute was awarded the medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands", and the following year it was named after Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov, the great anatomist and surgeon of Russia. In the sixties, an evening faculty appeared with pediatric and medical departments and a biomedical faculty .
Relocation and new achievements
In 1965, the USSR Council of Ministers gave the institute fifteen thousand square meters of educational and laboratory buildings in the south-west of Moscow, so far without a design and construction, but this was not far off, because this university was extremely valuable for the country. In 1966, he was awarded the Order of Lenin for outstanding services.
Another faculty appeared in 1968. Here, teachers improved their qualifications. He exists now. In 1977, a new one was opened - the Faculty of Advanced Medical Studies. In subsequent years, on the basis of a medical institute, research institutes were created : urology, pulmonology and physical and chemical medicine, which served as educational, scientific and industrial, that is, medical complexes.
Rename
In November 1991, the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR transformed the 2nd MOLGMI named after N.I. Pirogov at the Russian State Medical University. It continued to grow: pre-university training was opened at a separate faculty, then, by order of the mayor of Moscow, a Moscow faculty was created to staff metropolitan polyclinics and outpatient clinics. The Faculty of Clinical Psychology and all the others listed below are opening.
The Russian State Medical University receives a lot of help and support from the government. Moscow willingly uses the space created to expand creative and scientific boundaries in education. The university is still actively involved in organizing and conducting various medical forums, exhibitions, conferences, promoting capital medicine to an ever higher level.
One in fifteen
Now the Russian State Medical University of Roszdrav becomes the largest medical university in the country and one of the largest in Europe. At the same time, more than nine thousand students study at one hundred and thirty-five academic departments. The composition of professors and teachers is more than one thousand two hundred people in the state.
The internship trains annually two hundred doctors, in their residency there are more than seven hundred in thirty-six specialties. There are five hundred and fifty graduate students — physicians, biologists, and chemists. And this was not the last renaming. The best university in its industry - Russian State Medical University. Pirogova - became a national and research, basic university with a special development program until 2019. There are only fifteen of these in the country.
Faculties
Faculties and departments of medical Russian State University are listed below:
1. Faculty of Medicine. This is the oldest faculty of the university. Here, doctors are trained in the medical specialty, the most popular, - "Medical business". At the faculty - thirty-five departments.
2. Faculty of Pediatrics. This faculty was created first in the world as a pediatric. That is why those standards are set here for the quality training of pediatricians, which our country is famous for. At the faculty - thirty-three departments.
3. Biomedical faculty with the most powerful fundamental training and specialization in the field of biochemical sciences and clinical disciplines. Here, in twenty-three departments, doctors are trained in the specialties of "Medical Biochemistry", "Medical Biophysics" and "Medical Cybernetics."
4. Psychological and social faculty. At the faculty they study according to the programs of the specialty (clinical psychology) and undergraduate (social work). Four departments prepare highly qualified specialists.
5. Dental faculty. This faculty prepares dentists in the departments of therapeutic dentistry and maxillofacial surgery and dentistry.
6. Faculty of Pharmacy. The only department of pharmacy prepares excellent theorists and practitioners in botany and pharmacognosy who have mastered the most modern areas in this field.
7. Faculty for the training of foreign citizens. There are thirty-two departments at the faculty, where foreign citizens are trained in the specialties of "General Medicine" and "Pediatrics." The training takes place in Russian, but English is also used here.
8. International faculty. Graduates are awarded a double diploma (with the University of Milan). The specialty "Medicine" is studied at the Department of Humanities.