North-western State Medical University, named after I.I.Mechnikov, was formed on October the 12-th, 2011, due to the merger of two oldest educational, medical institutions in Russia - Saint-Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies and Saint-Petersburg State Medical Academy n. a. I.I. Mechnikov. The founder of Mechnikov university is the Ministry of public health of the Russian Federation. The University's activity is based on cooperation and coordination of educational, clinical, and scientific activity. It makes it possible to prepare competent specialists who possess up-to-date knowledge and can use it in practice. Four thousand two hundred students 3000 students on budgetary education form and 1200 on the fee-based educational form are studying at the University, including 500 students from foreign countries. Besides that, at the University are studying over 670 interns and about 1500 clinical residents, 460 Ph.D. candidates do their postgraduate work. Up to 35 000 specialists undergo their short- and long- term postdoctoral training annually.
Diagnostic and clinical work at Mechnikov University is managed in 6 own clinics, which is 1645 beds and includes 25 clinical specializations. Clinical subdivisions of the University provide high-skilled medical help to 40000 patients at the hospital and about 300000 outpatient yearly. The research work at Mechnikov University is conducted by recent scientific development directions of biomedical sciences. Considerable attention is paid to studies in health protection and sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population. The long-term strategy is focused on the effective transfer of fundamental and applied scientific action results and building a supportive scientific-educational environment, making it possible to prepare specialists of the highest qualification.
University is revering best historical traditions of Russian medical science and proceed development of medical disciplines of prominent Russian scientific schools grounded by V.M. Bechterev, E.E. Eichvald, N.V. Sklifosovskiy, D.O. Ott, N.D. Monastyrskiy, G.V. Khlopin, N.N. Anichkov, A.A. Uchtomskiy, S.S. Girgolava, and others. Today the University carries out its activity in three main directions: medical education, clinical work, and scientific research. The close interaction of these three areas lets us train highly qualified specialists to practice their up-to-date medical knowledge.
The University today is a vital part of the North-Western region of the Russian Federation targeted on the creation and accumulation of up-to-date medical knowledge, the integration of research with the educational process, and medical work.
