In 1938, the Stavropol Medical Academy was founded to train highly qualified specialists in this field. Now this educational institution is famous for its multi-level continuous education from pre-university to doctoral studies.
First steps
Applicants are helped in every possible way to join the ranks of students, for this there is a Small Medical Academy based on the faculty, where ninth grade students, in addition to getting to know the profession of a doctor, receive the first skills of research work. Here they meet with prominent clinicians involved in science, visit departments, museums, adapt to the conditions of education.
Stavropol Medical Academy (now Stavropol State Medical University) accepts schoolchildren to take preparatory courses in all basic subjects - Russian language, biology and chemistry. Pre-university education helps applicants to understand whether they have chosen the right profession,Is medicine really their calling? Those who made the right choice will always remember these most interesting student years that the Stavropol Medical Academy will give them.
Faculties
The structure of the university includes four basic educational faculties: pediatric, medical, dental and the faculty of biomedical and humanitarian education. In total, more than four and a half thousand students study at the university at a time.
The Stavropol Medical Academy has been offering humanitarian education since 2011. There are six areas, two-level training, for undergraduate and graduate programs: biotechnology, economics, adaptive physical education, biology, special defectology education and social work. The personnel educated here are highly professional and in high demand in various sectors of the pharmaceutical, medical industry, in the agricultural sector, as well as in the fields of management and economics.
Theory and practice
The knowledge needs of students are met by an excellent library with more than four hundred thousand copies of periodicals and books on medicine, in addition, there is a scientific department and a reading room with access to thousands of electronic textbooks. Many textbooks and teaching aids were created here by SSMU teachers. All students receive practice for their future profession through clinicalpreparation.
For this, the Stavropol State Medical Academy has a Practical Skills Center equipped with the latest technology, where students work with mannequins and phantoms in an expert class. This center is not the only one in the south of Russia, but it is considered the most modernly equipped. Also, students undergo clinical training on the basis of 28 medical and preventive clinics in the city of Stavropol. In addition, the Stavropol State Medical Academy has four divisions of its own. These are an eye microsurgery clinic, a dental clinic, a borderline clinic, and a minimally invasive and endoscopic surgery clinic.
International Activities
GBOU VPO The Stavropol State Medical Academy has always been actively integrating into the global educational space. The Faculty of Foreign Languages has been preparing doctors for foreign countries for several decades - more than thirty countries of the world have received their highly qualified specialists. The university is accredited for the preparation of international students.
There is a non-profit cooperation with the National Union of Medical Students, which unites fourteen medical universities, where the experience of foreign educational institutions of higher education in the field of he alth is studied as part of international exchange programs.
Postgraduate education
The university has inits structure is the largest institute of additional and postgraduate education in the south of the Russian Federation, where there are two faculties. In the internship, students study in nineteen speci alties, in the residency - in forty-three. The cycles of advanced training and professional retraining implement programs in pedagogy, computer science, related and applied disciplines.
Today, the Stavropol Medical Academy is expanding the list of educational programs to the maximum: professional development, second higher education, doctoral studies, postgraduate studies, master's, bachelor's, specialist's, and now secondary specialized medical education. Practicing doctors are successfully trained here, for almost eighty years of its existence the university has become one of the best medical schools in the Russian Federation, a number of doctors and scientists of the highest level have come from here.
College
In 2012, the Essentuki branch of the Stavropol Medical Academy appeared. This is a medical college, where programs are implemented in the speci alties of nursing and medical business. Graduates become nurses and paramedics of a high level of training, which guarantees employment in the sanatorium-resort and medical institutions of the region.
Diplomas are awarded to graduates of the state standard, there is an opportunity to improve and specialize in thirty speci alties of the medical field and receive a certificate. Also, students who successfully graduate from college have an advantage when entering the main university, which isStavropol Medical Academy.
Chairs
The opening of faculties and specialized departments on them serves as the basis for the formation of an educational base in order to train highly professional doctors both for the Stavropol Territory and the entire North Caucasus region. The departments were not created at the same time and were also strengthened gradually. For example, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology was formed during the Second World War, when the Dnepropetrovsk Medical Institute was evacuated to Stavropol. Now there is a solid material and technical base, modern equipment and apparatus, and a huge scientific work is being carried out.
Now there are more than seventy departments in the faculties, each with its own wonderful history, lingering traditions and striving for the highest quality of training for specialists. The admissions committee of the Stavropol Medical Academy invites applicants to apply for a speci alty, bachelor's, master's, postgraduate studies in Stavropol at the address: Mira street, house 310, second floor of the main building.
Student life
Medical Academy is not only theory with practice and scientific research. Everything is done here to ensure that students develop harmoniously and maintain he alth. To do this, the university has a swimming pool, gyms, a basketball court, and a he alth complex. There is a Student He alth Center, where constant monitoring is carried out regarding both the physical and mental he alth of all students at the university.
ExceptIn addition, there is the Center for Educational Work, which oversees the volunteer movement, dance and music studios, the KVN team, and patriotic education. Students are engaged in singing, performing arts, choreography, collecting folklore, attending sports sections, the tourist club is very popular. These are far from all the places where students spend extracurricular time. The university offers much more. And a considerable part of the events is held in four comfortable hostels, where there are also rest rooms, computer classes, and gyms.
Scientific activity
One of the main components of studying at a university is scientific research, which provides students with an opportunity for prospects for further educational and future career growth. SSMU has in its structure the Center for Scientific and Innovative Development, where there are six laboratories: nanotechnologies of drugs, experimental surgery, cell technologies, a laboratory of pharmacology, endothelial physiology, a laboratory of pharmacogenetic studies.
Four scientific schools successfully operate at the university. More than thirty awards brought from various international and Russian medical exhibitions and forums eloquently testify to the scientific work of students and teachers. Cooperation with RUSNANO and the practical implementation of scientific developments important for the country also speak for themselves.
