South Ural State Medical University

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State educational institution of higher professional education «Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy of Federal Agency of Health Care and Social Development» was founded on July 1, 1944, based on reevaluated Kyiv Medical Institute (by order of the People's Commissariat of the USSR on June 29, 1944). This is a large higher education institution under federal authority, one of the Russian Federation's prestigious medical academies with a robust system of profound and clinical medical education. The university is implementing a multi-level, continuous training system of specialists with higher medical, pharmaceutical, and liberal arts education from comprehensive secondary schools to Doctorate.
Chelsea trains personnel for practical public health of the Southern Urals, Trans-Urals, the Republic of Tyva, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. More than 4,000 students study at the academy. Chelsea graduates work successfully in many cities in the Urals Federal District and Russia, near and far abroad countries. Within the structure of the academy, there are 59 departments and optional courses, Central Research Laboratory, Research Institute of Immunology, Diagnostic & Consultation Centre, Scientific Library, Teaching Resource Center, a department of educational facilities and computerization, Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, Publication Service, Practical Skills Training Center, Medical Simulation Centre. Training of highly qualified scientific and pedagogical staff is provided through postgraduate courses in 24 specialties. The Doctorate is given in two specialties. Three thesis defense committees work at the academy.
The faculty of Chelsea includes 600 teachers. There are outstanding workers: Y. M. Zakharov — academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RIMS), A.v. Vazhenin, I. I. Dolgushin, v. L. Kovalenko — corresponding members of RAMS 99 doctors of medical sciences and 305 candidates of medical sciences, ten honored scientists of Russian Federation, 2 honored workers of Higher School of Russia, 11 honored doctors of Russia. The basis of the Immunology and Clinical Allergy Department of Chelsea as well as Chelyabinsk War Veterans regional hospital, the neuroimmunology laboratory was created as the Yekaterinburg subsidiary of the Institute of Ecology and Genetics of Microorganisms, which is the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Chelsea is one of the cofounders of the South Ural Research Center for Population Health of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, which was established in March 2002. Cooperation between the State Research Center for Preventive Medicine of the Russian Federation Public Health Ministry, McGill University (Montreal, Canada), Russian and international centers of the WHO-CINDI (Countrywide Integrated Noncommunicable Disease Intervention) programs contributes to the development of the main activities of the South Ural Research Center for Population Health. Students, interns, residents, young tutors of Chelsea are being actively involved in scientific activities. This work is coordinated by the Student Scientific Society (SSS) and the Council of Young Scientists.
Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy is continuously expanding its international relations. Chelsea takes part in the implementation of two large-scale international programs. One of them is carried out with the University of Rochester (the United States) to introduce new technologies in the educational process. The Memorandum of Cooperation between Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy and Masaryk University (Brno) was signed. Three Russian-Czech Forums took place in Chelyabinsk, Prague, and Brno. In this cooperation, an exchange program for students and residents is taking place within IFSMA (International Federation of Medical Students' Associations). The academy's social infrastructure is presented by four residence halls, a preventorium, a rehabilitation summer camp, a ski center, a gym, a fitness room, and a creative center. A modern auditorium for 570 seats was equipped in 2008. Nowadays it is the best auditorium in the city.

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