Education in Russia

The Moscow State Medical Academy named after M.I. Sechenov

The I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy is a higher educational institution of the Russian Federation. Founded in 1758 as the Medical Faculty of Moscow Emperor’s University It is the oldest medical school in Russia. After a major overhaul of higher medical education in 1930 the faculty was reorganised into a self-governing body – the First Moscow Medical Institute. From 1955 the Institute bears the name of Ivan M. Sechenov, the outstanding Russian scholar (medical faculty graduate of 1856). In 1990 the Institute was reorganized into a medical academy.

Over 250 years this institution of higher learning has been Russia’s major centre of medical science and training of medical, pharmaceutical and stomatological personnel. Tens of thousands of highly qualified physicians has since graduated from the Russia's oldest medical school. It gave life to a number of renowned scientific schools in many branches of medicine that are recognized all over the world.

Scientific center of MMA

Today the Academy has become a major hub for training, certification and upgrading the skills of medical and stomatological personnel and pharmacists in Russia. Academic studies are closely integrated with fundamental and applied research, aimed at providing highly professional medical assistance to the population and promoting the advances of medical sciences and pharmaceutics. The Academy has 168 chairs and courses are staffed by more than 2000 specialists of which 822 are Doctors of Sciences (D.Sc.) and 1059 are Candidates of Sciences (Ph.D.). There are on the staff of the Academy about 2000 research workers and instructors, 2900 medical tutors and 745 physicians in more than 40 medical and 12 dental specialties.

About 9000 students, residents and postgraduates are studying in in Academy and about 2000 of them are international trainees from 85 countries.

Students get new knowledge

Today there are 14 faculties with 168 chairs and courses at the Academy, and among them: medical, disease-prevention, pharmaceutical (day and evening courses), stomatological, higher nurses' training (day and evening courses), faculty of medical military training, international undergraduate education and international students faculty, continuous professional training, continuous disease-prevention education, pharmacist upgrading, health service management, academic education, and premedical education (as school-university, college-university and medical-school-university complexes).

Laboratory classes

Students trains in educational group. There are 9-11 students in each group, so total students.

Practical study

The Academician Clinical campus consists of 17 diverse clinics for 3080 patients.

The I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical academy collaborates on contractual terms with therapy, surgical, dental and preventive-treatment institutes of The Federal Agency of Health Care and Social Development of the Russian Federation.

Students observe the operation

Many chairs of MMA function on the basis of research cetres and institutes. Among them are Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS), Dental Research Institute, Research Centre of Surgery, RAMS Oncological Research Centre, RAMS Cardiological Research Centre, P.A.Priorov Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, RAMS Research Institute of Eye Diseases, P.A.Herzen Moscow Institute of Oncology, P.K.Anokhin Institute of Human Phisiology, Research Institute of Forensic Medicine, RAMS Research Centre of Endocrinology, Research Institute of Phtysiopulmonology, Research Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine and others.

The Academy collaborates with different international organization such as the International Association of the University Programs for Health Management, the World Organisation of National Colleges, Academies and General Practitioners, the American International Alliance on Health Problems, the European Association of Management in Health Care, the World Academy of Medical Education.

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