The medical higher education institution planned by Catherine the Great in Crimea was opened only under the Soviet regime in 1918 as the Tauride University, and only after many years did the very KSMU in Simferopol take shape, about which future applicants dream. After 2014, Ukraine considers this university to be an educational institution located in the occupied territory, and all its successes and achievements are doubted or even denied. However, they are, and they are great, and this article will tell how he lived yesterday and how he lives today at KSMU. Simferopol cherishes its medical university, and therefore the local authorities in every possible way help him survive in these difficult, but certainly creative times.
Then and now
Several years ago, KSMU of Simferopol could rightfully be proud of the created material and technical base, which allowed this educational institution to be in the forefront of the best universities in Ukraine. With the accession of the peninsula to the Russian Federation, of course, leadership no longer exists, since there are a lot of excellent medical universities in the country, for which sixteen educational buildings with the Internet are not uncommon. The fact that the clinical facilities for university departments were located in nearly fifty hospitals is good, but now their number has grown significantly. The clinic within the walls of the university is much better equipped with the latest equipment.
The library now has the opportunity to add to its 580 thousand volumes any publications that are in the base of other medical universities in Russia. There is a training and sports base, and a house of culture, and a sanatorium, and a clinic. Students live in the same five dormitories, and there is clearly not enough space for everyone. The question is about expanding the housing stock. The educational process takes place according to the programs that are used in medical universities of the country. Now this is a structural unit of the Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Vernadsky Crimean Federal University ”, which was opened by the government of the Russian Federation in 2014, and is called the Georgievsky Medical Academy. The work is licensed by the Federal Service for the Supervision of Science and Education.
Education
Continuous education is provided - from pre-university training (preparatory courses and preparatory department), through the main four faculties that prepare pharmacists and specialist doctors (first medical, second medical, international medical and dental), and to the completion of training for residents, interns, masters at the faculty, which trains the medical personnel of the highest qualification, as well as the faculty of continuing professional education - retraining and advanced training.
In total, there are fifty-three departments at KSMU Simferopol, including thirty-seven clinical ones, where specialty programs in medical care, pediatrics, dentistry and pharmacy work. Programs have also been introduced for state and municipal administration, where masters are trained in the field of health protection and the management of a modern medical institution.
Equipment
Residents are trained in one of thirty-two licensed specialties. The educational process is provided with an integrated approach - scientific, methodological and organizational. For its successful course, the departments of KSMU of Simferopol are equipped with educational films, phantoms, dummies, diagnostic equipment, and a well-equipped training center serves for the same purpose. In short, the educational process at the medical academy meets all the needs of our time.
The teaching staff is very powerful, and therefore KSMU of Simferopol collects reviews from both grateful students and university graduates who found themselves in medicine. Today, more than seven hundred specialists teach here, among them about one hundred doctors of sciences and almost four hundred candidates. Seventy-seven professors teach 4560 students, almost two thousand of them are foreigners from forty-five countries of the world.
Story
The structure of KSMU Simferopol was created for a very, very long time. Its history dates back to 1794, when the empress made a decision regarding the opening of the Medical and Surgical Academy in the heart of Crimea - Simferopol. However, Catherine the Great failed to implement her project. As the peninsula every year acquired more and more features of an all-Russian resort, the forward-thinking public did not abandon the dream of creating a medical university here. But only at the end of the nineteenth century, scientific and medical institutions in Crimea began to open, and they existed with donations and private fees. Only in 1916, the provincial zemstvo and local self-government of Crimea were able to finally begin the creation of the Tauride University, where the faculty of medicine was supposed to be part of it.
That is - were able to proceed. But the medical faculty opened in May 1918, and the history of Taurida University itself began with its opening. At first it was a branch of Kiev, but in October 1918 it gained independence. The Department of Anatomy of KSMU of Simferopol is the oldest in the Academy, it was here that the excellent anatomist, Professor R.I. Helvig is the first rector of the university and the dean of the medical faculty. The department was the most popular, and in general one hundred and nine people were immediately admitted to the medical faculty in fifteen clinical departments. The first medical graduates after graduating from the medical faculty began to work in 1922. However, in 1925, the Tauride University underwent a reorganization, and the Faculty of Medicine was abolished.
Health resort
And the Crimea developed under the Soviet regime rapidly and seriously, increasingly acquiring the appearance of an all-Union health resort. The need for medical specialists and medical personnel of all specialties and categories was enormous. That is why in 1930, by the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Soviet Crimea, it was decided to open another educational institution in Simferopol - a separate medical institute named after Frunze. At the same time, a preparatory course was recruited, and since 1931, sets were made twice a year. The birth date of this educational institution is considered the day when the first lectures on physics, chemistry and anatomy were read. KSMU of Simferopol today celebrates its birth on April 1 - since 1931. In September of the same year, the university received the name of I.V. Stalin, which he wore with pride until 1956.
In 1932, the institute was headed by V.A. Targulov, it is with his activities that all successes are associated in the development of the material and technical base, in the formation of a collective of teachers, in scientific research. The first years of the university’s existence were not easy for students: they had to not only learn, but also build. It was the student workers' squads who built the first hostel, gym, club, as well as the most beautiful building in the city - the second educational building, the project of which was created by architect Belozersky. The first graduation took place in 1936 - in February, about a hundred people received medical degrees, among which eighteen received honors. The second stream - July - another ninety-four graduates. Almost all were sent to work in different regions of the Crimea. In 1938, a hundred students were recruited to a new faculty - pediatric. By 1940, one and a half thousand students were studying at the institute in thirty-two departments, which were conducted by twenty-three professors, sixteen associate professors. And after that there was a war. State examinations took place, and all graduates went to the front along with the director and many students and teachers.
Wanderings
In September 1941, the institute was evacuated to Armavir, but the Krasnodar Territory also underwent fascist occupation. The wanderings of teachers and students lasted almost a year, but the classes were not interrupted for a single day. The institute visited Dzhambul, again in Armavir, in Ordzhonikidze, in Baku, in Krasnovodsk, in Kzyl-Orda. It was in this small Kazakh town that there were two graduations of doctors who immediately went to the front. In total, from June 1941 until the end of the war, eight hundred and fifty new specialists studied at the institute. Almost all graduates and many students, as well as more than forty teachers, served in the Red Army and Navy, in partisan detachments. Not everyone managed to return from the battlefields. More than one hundred and twenty people - graduates and employees - died.
A monument was erected on the territory of the institute in 1974, and a military surgeon still stands there, reminding students of the unprecedented feat of arms that the country performed with its magnificent figure. After the liberation of Crimea in 1944, the institute returned home. The occupation destroyed almost everything that was built - educational buildings, a club, a dormitory, a gym, only ruins remained. The institute needed to be brought back to life as soon as possible. Incredible efforts were made, and in an extremely short time the university staff did everything to start the academic year on time. Crimean Medical Institute overcame all the difficulties of both the military and post-war times with honor.
The name of St. George
Associate Professor S.I. Georgievsky in 1951 was appointed director (rector) of the Crimean Medical Institute. The management was not mistaken in the choice. It was Sergei Ivanovich Georgievsky who managed to begin a new and most difficult stage in the development of the university. The post-war devastation was still affecting, the educational and material facilities required thorough strengthening, and there were no conditions for practicing medical science at all. What to say about student life - it was not yet equipped with even the most necessary. Georgievsky extremely widespread construction work, and students again participated in this fully and completely. The main building was almost rebuilt - with a Corinthian portico at the entrance, with new rooms. The left wing is built, as well as the part where there is now a round classroom for lectures, theoretical departments. It was under Georgievsky that the stadium, the house of culture, almost the entire second building were erected.
In addition to household concerns, the rector was closely engaged in science at the Department of Pathological Physiology. In addition, it was through his efforts that the largest scientists who moved to the Crimea from central universities appeared at the institute. So they founded their own scientific schools: biochemistry G.V. Trinity, surgery E.I. Zakharova, pharmacology N.S. Schwarzalon, therapy P.A. Tepper. Until 1970, through the efforts of Georgievsky, the institute developed and grew. Further, until 1974, he left himself only scientific work in the department, since the age had come when it was no longer possible to cover everything. In September 1974, Sergei Ivanovich was buried with honors at the Simferopol cemetery, and until now graduates of the institute bring flowers to his grave almost daily. And in 1995, the institute was named after him.
KSMU Clinic
Simferopol is rightfully proud of one of the best clinics existing in the Crimea. This is a clinic of a medical academy. The indigenous population of the peninsula and numerous guests who came to improve their own health willingly give themselves up to inquisitive students who are under the watchful eye of all-knowing and able professors. Thirty beds in the surgical department practice laparoscopic surgery and use the latest medical technology.
Therapists have only twenty beds where they observe and treat endocrine-metabolic cardiovascular pathologies. There are also twenty beds in the Bliskunov orthopedics in the same clinic of KSMU in Simferopol: 5/7 Lenin Boulevard. The clinic constantly visits the rooms of endoscopy and functional diagnostics, there is also a radiation diagnosis with a laboratory. Recording is done over the phone and online.
Department and Museum
As already mentioned, the Department of Anatomy was organized by the very first, in 1918, under the direction of a student of the famous Lesgaft - Professor Roman Ivanovich Gelvig. In KSMU of Simferopol, the department of normal anatomy was headed by him until the reorganization of this educational institution. In 1931, work at the department resumed, and many prominent scientists began their journey here. Professor Bobin, for example, has published more than one hundred scientific papers, prepared three doctors of sciences and ten candidates.
And today all the laboratories belonging to KSMU of Simferopol are very successfully working here: histology, electron microscopy, histochemistry, cytomorphometry, macro- and microanalysis, vivarium. Symposiums are held here, dissertations are defended, scientific articles and monographs are published. The most functional part of the department is the morphological museum. Museum expositions are located on 605.7 square meters. m, and the exhibition fund is more than one and a half thousand exhibits. And not only students of KSMU Simferopol like to be here.
Selection committee
To enter the Crimean Medical Academy (referring to specialty programs), you need to independently (or assigning it to an authorized person) submit an application, a double-sided form of which is attached to the information for applicants on the Academy’s website. The sample is established, the necessary documents are listed, and their photocopies must be submitted in a single set.
You can fill out an application online, you can provide the entire package of documents in person at KSMU Simferopol. How to get there - everyone will tell. From Moscow - by plane, then - by trolley. Soon it will be possible to go by car - on the Crimean bridge. The Academy is located in the heart of the capital of Crimea. The selection committee works on weekdays from 9.00 to 17.00 with a lunch break from 13.00 to 14.00. Details can be found on the phones indicated on the official website. Address: Russian Federation, Republic of Crimea, the city of Simferopol, Lenin Boulevard, house 5/7, building 2A. Index 295051.