Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University

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Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University was founded in 1925 as Academic and Research Institute of Maternal health and babyhood protection on the hospital basement on the 7th of January in 1925. For many decades, the University is an international center of higher medical education. Over the past half-century, it graduated several thousand international students from 70 countries from 4 continents. Currently, University is opened to students from over 50 countries. In University may be taken a person of either sex, nation, or race, regardless of political or religious beliefs of any state with diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation.

Saint-Petersburg state pediatric medical university provides a high educational level, which guarantees high labor market demand. Our students and lecturers are laureate and prizewinners of rather international and Russian contests. Every year, our students participate in contests of scientific works for St. Petersburg Government grants and have success. Traditionally, scientific research is a crucial part of our University's work and includes medicine's central areas. According to the Russian Science Index, we are in the TOP-3 of all medical organizations in the Russian Federation, and in TOP-25 of all scientific organizations.

Saint-Petersburg state pediatric medical university-related agreements of cooperation and partnership with foreign medical organizations: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (Houston, USA), Democritus University of Thrace (Alexandroupolis, Greece), Belarus State medical university (Minsk, Belarus), Mhitara Geraci's Erevan State medical university (Erevan, Armenia). It allows our students to take part in international exchange programs. This work allows for improving the educational level. Students have a practice in our hospital (one of the biggest in Russia) from their first days in University. They learn from practitioners who work in our clinic.

Our hospital is a federal medical organization with one of Leningrad's pediatric schools' most significant scientific bases and ancient traditions. We have modern diagnostic technologies: multislice computer tomography, MRI, US-scanners, installation for radiologists, modern radioisotope laboratory, etc. Clinical and biochemical, bacteriological, and virological laboratories allow performing the entire spectrum of researchers at the advanced level. Our specialists work at the frontiers of modern science and implement new technologies into practice. Nowadays postgraduate educational process in Pediatric University is directed on qualification rising and high professional specialists training. In postgraduate faculty, the structure included 15 departments. We prepare doctors in the following directions:

• Pediatrics
• Anesthesiology and reanimatology
• Neonatology
• Anesthesiology and intensive therapy in neonatology
• Emergency pediatrics

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