State Educational Institution Of Higher Professional Training «Volgograd State Medical

University»

Volgograd, 400131 Pl. Pavshih Bortsov,1

Educational fields

At present there are 4 levels of training in the university:

1. Pre-college,

2. Undergraduate,

3. Postgraduate,

4. Continuing professional education and advanced training

Faculties at the Volgograd State Medical University

• Medical, • Stomatological, • Pediatric, • Pharmaceutical, • Biomedical, • Social work and clinical

psychology, • Advanced medical training, • For international students

Staff

At present the number of the staff at the university is the following:

• 138 Doctors of Science and Professors • 511 Candidates of Science, • 2 Members of the Russian Academy of Medical

Sciences, • 1 Corresponding member of the Russian

Academy of Medical Sciences, • 7 Honoured Science Workers of the Russian

Federation, • 2 Honorary Figures of Russian Higher Education, • 19 Honoured Doctors Of the Russian Federation

Staff

• Departments – 73

• Mean age of the faculty members – 47 years

• With degrees – 71,5%

• Doctors of Science percentage – 16,5%

• Candidates of Science percentage – 55%

Students

• 5667 students overall

• Graduated in 2009 - 940

• Entered in 2009 - 1052

• The main form of training is postgraduate education

• Currently 256 people are involved in postgraduate training in 38 specialties: 7 scientific: «medical science», «pharmaceutical science», «biological science», «chemical science», «philosophical science», «sociological science», «cultural studies»

• Applicants – 29 people

Forms of scientific manpower training

• Doctorate training is available in 4 specialties and at present 12 people are being trained

Forms of scientific manpower training

• The university has a «Regional Socio- humanitarian Centre for further professional training»

• Special trainings (72 hours) «Psychological, educational and organizational aspects of academic activity at the medical university» take place every year

Educational training

EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT

RECTORRECTOR EMPLOYERSEMPLOYERS

EXTERNAL AUDITEXTERNAL AUDITPROVOST FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE MEDICAL FACULTY STOMATOLOGICAL FACULTY PEDIATRIC FACULTY PHARMACEUTICAL FACULTY BIOMEDICAL FACULTY SOCIAL WORK AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY FACULTY FOR ADVANCED MEDICAL TRAINING INTERNSHIP RESIDENCY POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION DOCTORATE

HOSPITAL №1 FAMILY PRACTICE HOSPITAL STOMATOLOGICAL HOSPITAL EDUCATIONAL PHARMACY PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT OF THE PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT MEDICAL DEPARTMENT SCIENTIFIIC LIBRARY SERTIFICATION AUTHORITY CENTRE FOR IT TECHNOLOGIESADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT

ОМКК

Rector assistant, Authorized official for quality

Quality commission

In the last 3 years were defended: • 27 Doctoral dissertations • 136 Candidate’s dissertations, • published 35 monographs, 14

textbooks, 109 study guides, more than 2600 articles (out of which 150 published in foreign journals),

• 1 invention, • 24 patents obtained

Scientific work

International activity

• All-Russian scientific conferences “Problems of international students quality of education in medical universities” are held regularly

International activity

• For more than 15 years once in every 2 years specialists from the University of Arkansas for Medical Science (USA) conduct conferences in the field of postgraduate education

Open education

Educational Internet portal has been working since January 2007

Innovative teaching model

Distance teaching (via the Internet) was introduced at the Volgograd State University at the pharmacology and biopharmaceutical department in 2006 (upgrade qualification of pharmacists)

The amount of students on distance teaching in 2006-2009

The balance between students on on-site and off-site training and distance teaching since

2006-2009 • The amount of

students on distance teaching increases.

• It made up 50% of all students in 2008-2009

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