THE STAVROPOL STATE MEDICAL ACADEMY

The Stavropol State Medical Academy was founded in 1938. Since that time thousands of highly skilled specialists working all over the world were prepared at the Academy. The Academy is one of the largest educational and scientific medical centres of Russia. It is listed in the World Directory of medical schools published by the World Health Organization (WHO) that gives the chance to graduates to get a job in any country of the world after passing the national exam.

The Academy was awarded with the international awards: «The Gold Medal of the International Biography Centre», «The Cannes Silver Medal» and the title «The Flagman of the XXI Century» as the most dynamically developing enterprise. In 2010 the Academy became the winner of the All-Russia economic project «Leaders of Modernisation».

The main faculties in the Academy are: the Faculty of General Medicine, the Faculty of Pediatrics, the Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Humanities and Medical-Biological Education, the Foreign Students’ Faculty. There are also the Faculty of Pre-University Education and the Institute of Postgraduate and Additional Education.

Rector is at the head of the Academy. Each faculty is headed by the dean.

The General Medicine Faculty is the biggest one. It trains physicians for adult population in three main specialties: Therapy, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology. The training lasts six years.

The Faculty of Pediatrics trains doctors of two specialties: Pediatrics and Children’s Surgery. The course of study here lasts six years.

The Faculty of Dentistry trains dentists. The course of study lasts five years. The graduates of this faculty are prepared in such dental specialties as dental therapeutists, dental surgeons, and dental orthopedists.

The foreign students from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America are trained at the Foreign Students’ Faculty. The English-speaking students are taught in English and it enables them to study without preliminary training at the Preparatory Courses.

New lines for preparation of specialists at the Faculty of Humanities and Medical-Biological Education are opened in the Academy in 2011. They are: Defectology, Biology, Biotechnology, Physical Training for Persons with Health Deviations (Adaptive Physical Training), Economics, and Social Work.

For the first two years, the students of the Academy study pre-clinical subjects such as Anatomy, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Latin, Russian and Foreign Languages.

Clinical subjects are taught beginning from the third year. They are Propaedeutics of Internal and Children’s Diseases, General Surgery, Neurology, Urology, Traumatology, Dermatovenerology, Otorhinolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Clinical Pharmacology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and others.

The academic year consists of two terms. At the end of each term the students pass examinations and tests. There are all created conditions for successful mastering of doctor’s profession at the Academy. Many students attend the students’ scientific societies and take part in annual scientific conferences. They carry out a lot of laboratory and clinical researches. The students who study well get grants, which are paid monthly.

The teaching staff of the Academy is highly skilled. The Academy has the modern material and technical base, providing a high educational level. The Academy has modern learning and medical equipment, computer classes, and electronic library.

The main task of the Faculty of Pre-University Education is to help to the prospective applicants in their quest to become the students of the Medical Academy.

Training at the Faculty of Pre-University Education gives an opportunity for schoolchildren to become better acquainted with the medical profession and to obtain the research work skills, to meet the prominent scientists and clinicians, to learn about the past and the future of medicine, to visit departments and museums of the Academy.

The Institute of Postgraduate and Additional Education of the Stavropol State Medical Academy carries out preparation, retraining and improvement of professional skills of doctors and medical staff within 46 specialties in the area of postgraduate training (clinical residency and internship) and within 73 specialties of additional training.

The students of our Academy have all facilities for sports and health supporting: there is a camp on the Black Sea, sports complex with a swimming-pool and gyms, the students’ health centre, the students’ polyclinic and the stomatological polyclinic.

Graduates of the Stavropol State Medical Academy work in all corners of our country and abroad, they lead the departments of alma mater and many other universities, they are the heads of public health service establishments and research institutes.