Medical institutes. The first medical institute. Medical Institute in Moscow

Medicine is one of the most important areas that school leavers pay attention to when they are faced with the question of which of the higher educational institutions of Russia to enter for further education. This industry is popular and respected among applicants and ordinary citizens. After all, doctors are committed to saving the lives of others, helping to restore patients after serious injuries, help to appear in the light of a new person. However, before starting to work independently in a medical institution, a future specialist needs to spend more than one year at the desk of the corresponding institution, where the country's best specialists will teach him this difficult but important specialty. In many cities of our vast country there are medical institutes and academies. This article is a kind of mini-review of such institutions. Perhaps after reading it, the entrant can finally decide on the choice and devote his life to this profession, which is always in demand.

History of the formation of medicine in Russia. First Medical Institute

It is believed that one of the best (if not the best) in our country universities for training future specialists is MGMU them. Sechenov. This abbreviation stands for First Moscow State Medical University. It was founded in the XVIII century during the reign of Empress Elizabeth. So, 1758 became, as it were, the starting point in the development and development of medicine in Russia. The first medical institute was created by such outstanding personalities and prominent specialists as Politkovskiy, Zybelin, Veniaminov, Sibirskiy. And, of course, the history of this institution is closely connected with Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov. In addition, the world-famous surgeon Sklifosovsky NV worked here, he headed the department for 13 years and established a clinical school of surgery. Today at the University. Sechenov simultaneously trains more than 15 thousand students, not only from Russia, but also from other countries. In fact, this medical institute in Moscow is an international educational institution. He is rightfully considered the best in the state, because it was in him that the foundations of modern medicine were born.

Followers of Sechenovka: Pirogov Medical Institute

RNIMU him. N. Pirogova has more than a century of history. This abbreviation stands for Russian National Research Medical University. It all began in 1906, when the Higher Women's Courses were organized in Moscow, later they were transformed into the VMGU (Second Moscow State University). And already in 1930, the Second Medical Institute was separated from it. In the middle of the 50s of the last century the university was named after N. Pirogov. Today, this medical institute in Moscow takes a leading position among other scientific, medical, educational, methodical and therapeutic cents of Russia.

However, not only the capital of our country is famous for such institutions: other cities also have well-known universities, they have something to oppose Moscow. In total, there are more than 90 medical educational institutions in Russia. Let's talk about some of them.

St. Petersburg - the cultural capital

In this city there is the first pediatric university not only of our country, but of the whole world. SPbSPU - St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University - was founded in 1925. The merit of the formation and organization of this university belongs to Julia Mendeleeva, who was the director of the institution from the day of its foundation until 1949. In 2010 new departments are opened here, after two years the university is awarded the status of a university, and from February 2013, practical medical work begins in the corps of the Perinatal Center.

SPbGMU named after academician I. Pavlov

St. Petersburg State Medical University was founded in 1897. Today this university includes educational, scientific and medical units. Among its graduates we can mention the following famous people: Alexander Rosenbaum, Nikolai Anichkov, Valery Lebedev, Mikhail Shats. For the years of its existence SPbSMU has trained more than 60 thousand doctors, it continues to actively develop and work today, supports the standards of Russian medicine at a high level. This medical institute in St. Petersburg has a strong clinical base, which includes 17 clinics, 43 large polyclinics and hospitals, among them the world's first infectious diseases hospital. S. Botkin, Children's Hospital. N. Filatova, Center of the heart, blood and endocrinology V. Almazova, Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology. D. Ott, Psychoneurological Institute. V. Bekhterev, Research Institute of Experimental Medicine, RAMS.

In addition to those listed, in St. Petersburg there are other equally well-known medical institutions, such as the Medical Academy. I. Mechnikova, Chemical-Pharmaceutical Academy, Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians.

Educational institutions of Siberia

This region of Russia is also famous for its medical traditions. For example, the history of SibSU is more than 125 years old. So, in 1888 within the framework of Tomsk Imperial University the medical faculty was opened, and in 1930 it acquired the status of an independent university, in 1992 it became a university.

In Novosibirsk in 1935 the teaching staff was assembled, which began its work in the newly organized medical school. In 2005, this university changed its status from the academy to the university. Today, more than 5,000 students study here and more than 1,700 employees work. At the Novosibirsk State Medical University, the training is conducted at eight faculties and 76 departments.

Irkutsk Medical Institutes

IGMU is the first higher medical educational institution in the east of Russia, and also one of the oldest in Siberia. It was opened in 1919 as a medical department at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. And already literally a year later he stood out in an independent administrative unit - the medical faculty. The originators of this university were outstanding personalities, professors - the elite of the Kazan school, such as N. Bushmakin (the largest organizer and anatomist, rector of the university), N. Shevyakov (world famous biologist), N. Sinakevich (surgeon), V. Donskoy (founder) Museum of pathology) and many others. In the first year of its existence, the departments of pathological anomaly, normal anatomy and histology with the museum and laboratory, bacteriology, topographic anatomy, operative surgery, and medical diagnostics began to function here. It was the beginning of hospital surgery. Throughout its history this educational institution grew and developed, and in 2012 IGMU receives the status of a university.

There is also another, equally well-known medical educational institution in Irkutsk - the State Academy of Postgraduate Education. This institution begins its history in 1979. In the first decade of the Academy's existence, the geography of its listeners included 11 administrative centers, that is, a region that covers more than 60 percent of the territory of Russia. Listeners here attracted a very serious attitude of the teaching staff to their duties, as well as the qualified teaching of the teaching material. The Institute expanded rapidly, new departments were formed, the number of laboratories and departments grew, new clinical bases were formed. The organization of classes was substantially improved, and the technical equipment of the educational process was also improved. Today, this university takes the leading place among medical schools in the country.

SamGMU

Samara Medical Institute passed for its history a huge, in many ways innovative way, as a result it has turned into one of the largest and most authoritative universities in Russia. And it all began in 1919, when the dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Samara University, Professor V. Gorinevsky, was elected at a solemn public meeting. Already in 1922 the first issue of doctors was held (there were only 37 of them). Out of the graduates of the first years of the faculty work, remarkable scientists, organizers of public health services, known throughout the country, came out. This future Minister of Health G. Miterev, T. Eroshevsky, E. Kavetsky, G. Lavsky, I. Askalonov, V. Klimovitsky, I. Kukolev, J. Greenberg and many others. After eight years, the Faculty of Medicine is allocated to an independent university, at the same time, new institute clinics are created, as well as forms of joint work of the society and medical science.

Samara State Medical University during the Great Patriotic War

A special page in the life of SamGMU is related to military medical training of medical specialists. In fact, it was one of the pioneers of the traditions of military medical education in Russia. The country was on the brink of war with Germany and badly needed military doctors. There was everything: a worthy educational and scientific base, and the availability of its own clinical facilities, and a serious faculty. All these factors played a decisive role, and on the basis of SamGMU the first military medical institute of the country is being created. Literally for four months it was reorganized into a higher military educational institution. During the years of the Great Patriotic War, intensive scientific research did not stop here, the educational process was not suspended for one day. During this period, 432 military doctors were trained, most of whom went to the front.

Kuban State Medical University

In the south of the country, the most powerful medical university is the Kuban State Medical University. It consists of 7 faculties, 64 departments, as well as a dental polyclinic, obstetric-gynecological clinic. As for the teaching staff, it numbers 624 people, teaching more than four thousand students. It was organized in 1920. The newly created chairs were headed by such prominent figures of medicine as I. Savchenko (disciple I. Mechnikov, self-denying researcher of cholera vaccine), N. Petrov (the founder of domestic oncology), A. Smirnov (pupil I. Pavlov) and others. Since 2005, this university has been accredited as a university.

Finally

In modern Russia, the development of health care is 90 percent dependent on the quality of the educational process and the qualified training of young professionals. Medical institutions, one might say, hold in their hands the future and health of the whole nation. The main task of these universities is not only to teach, but also to develop, and also to conduct an offensive policy in the field of public health.