For over 70 years, Ryazan State Medical University has trained qualified personnel for the Russian Healthcare System. Today the University conducts programs of high and secondary professional education in the medical spheres. It trains specialists in internship, residency, postgraduate study, doctoral candidacy and provides professional retraining and qualification improvement. This educational institution is a research center of medical science and prophylactic medical activity.
The University's aim is qualitative professional learning based on high medical school's classical traditions, educational technologies, and highly qualified academic staff. The University has gained authority in Russia and abroad. RSMU offers professional development of specialists in health protection competitive on Russian and international level. The University's educational and scientific activities' quality is guaranteed by certificates of conformity with international standards ISO 9001:2008.
Ryazan State Medical University includes eight departments and more than 50 sub-departments. Currently, the University trains specialists for medical and research institutions in Russia and more than 60 countries of Europe, CIS, Asia, and Africa. More than 5 000 students study at the University at the moment. There are many different educational programs: 9 specialties of higher professional education, 88 specialties of postgraduate studies, and three programs of secondary professional education. The clinical base of the University is used to teach and improve practical skills. The base consists of more than 30 local and regional modern medical and preventive institutions and drugstores, national health resorts. Clinical sub-departments are equipped with modern diagnostic and therapy tools that let students learn using the latest technologies. Such innovative methods and training tools as problematic and complex lectures, evidence-based medicine, distant and interactive learning, e-textbooks, and multimedia sources are widely used in the educational process.
The University contributes to the regional healthcare system by taking part in regional and local scientific-research programs dedicated to drug abuse prevention, prevention, and treatment of arterial hypertension, oncological, renal, urological pathologies, etc. The University cooperates with several enterprises and firms specializing in producing medical equipment and drugs. Medical activity is one of the main focus areas of the University. Traditional methods of learning by examining patients are combined with modern educational technologies. At the moment, clinical sites of the University are equipped with roentgen, angiographic, tomographic diagnostic units, a powerful laboratory branch, a division of medical genetics, a branch of functional, endoscopic, and ultrasound diagnostics.
The University contributes to practical healthcare with the laboratory-diagnostic complex's research work based on the Central scientific-research laboratory. The laboratory has unique equipment and highly qualified personnel. The results of the researches conducted in this laboratory are essential for patient diagnostics and treatment. There is a program for improving University teachers` and students` health. According to this program, students have annual medical checks and all the employees –fluorography examinations.
Realizing personal creative potential helps cultivate in students such traits of character as justice, kindness, and passion about their work. Transmitting cultural heritage and creating a scholarly society have become goals of higher education. Being developed in an environment based on humanistic values is essential for a doctor-to-be. Taking into consideration all the above, the University sets itself the following objectives:
- To develop universal human values and the feeling of civil responsibility in students, to teach them to be tolerant
- To discover the creative potential of every student, to motivate them to take the initiative, to create conditions for a healthy lifestyle and physical education
- To develop a positive attitude to labor, enable students to socialize and adapt in the labor market, teach to respect the law, and estimate their behavior objectively.
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