Privolzhsky Research Medical University

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Privolzhskiy Research Medical University is a major center for training medical practitioners in one of the largest regions of the European part of Russia. The medical faculty was opened in 1920 as a faculty of Nizhny Novgorod University. In May 1930, it became an independent Medical Institute, and in June 1994, it got the State Medical Academy's status.

• Faculty of general medicine: - is the biggest one. About half of all the students of the Academy specialize in Surgery, Therapy, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Neurology, etc. The training course lasts for six years.
• Pediatric faculty: physicians are taught here to treat children. The Regional Pediatric Hospital and the Institute for Pediatric Research have been selected as teaching hospitals. The duration of the course is six years.
• Faculty of preventive medicine: specialists are trained to implement the main prophylactic principles of public health to prevent diseases. Graduates from the Faculty are qualified as Hygienists and Epidemiologists. The duration of the course is six years.
• Faculty of dentistry: specialists in Dentistry are trained here. After the required course, graduate students ought to have special primary internship training in the following branches: Dental Therapy, Dental Surgery, Dental Orthopedics, Pediatric Dentistry. The duration of training is five years.
• Pharmacy faculty: prepares pharmacists. The duration of the course is five years.

All students are provided with comfortable double rooms at three modern hostels situated on the medical campus. Rooms are supplied with necessary furniture and bed linen. Students have all conditions for enjoying sport and social activities: sports halls, swimming pools, Internet, and Russian graduates, international students are welcome for postgraduate education. Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy offers internship, residency, and Ph.D. programs in the following fields of clinical practice: Internal Diseases, Pediatrics, Radiodiagnostics and Radiotherapy, Surgery, Traumatology and Orthopedics, Cardiovascular Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Nervous Diseases, Children Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Epidemiology, Hygiene, Microbiology, Dentistry, etc.

The academy is staffed with 722 well-qualified specialists, among them - 76 professors and 145 associate professors. Faculty of Overseas Admissions is staffed with 166 specialists, 32 professors, and 56 associate professors. Up-to-date medical equipment is available to the students for their training and research work.

Theoretical education is conducted in 8 notable buildings, while clinical studies are carried out in well-equipped clinics and hospitals. Instructions are given through lectures and practical classes. The Working group consists of 8-10 students. An essential part of the training is the observation of patients, which aims to improve the students' clinical thought.

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