The University started as Stalingrad Medical Institute, founded in 1935. In 1993 it got the status of the Academy, and in 2003 it was granted the status of the University. The University is currently headed by the prominent Russian scientist, Academician of the Russian Academy for Medical Sciences, Professor Vladimir I. Petrov. The Volgograd State Medical University is an active participant in several international projects promoting medical research and clinical practice. This accounts for a genuine interest in the University's activities on government officials of various countries. It has recently been visited by the USA, Malaysia, India, the People's Republic of China, Brunei, Bangladesh, etc., top officials of Medical and Dental Councils of different countries.
The Volgograd State Medical University has built up relationships with several foreign universities - the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (USA), Albert Ludwigs Universitaet (Freiburg, Germany), Martin-Luther Halle-Wittenberg Universitaet (Germany), Belgian, French, Chinese universities, etc. This collaboration has fostered medical science in family medicine, poison control, family planning, reproductive health, arterial hypertension, epidemiology, tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment, pharmacology, pharmacy, etc. One of the latest developments in the newly set up Russian-American Family Practice Clinic, which is a unique clinic of this type in the whole of the south of Russia. The University has been collaborating with the World Federation for Medical Education, with the World Health Organisation (WHO), with UNESCO, with the British Council, with the United States Agency for International Development, with the American International Health Alliance, and participating in a wide range of joint international research projects.
The Volgograd State Medical University has given rise to several research and methodological schools and centers. They are the Volgograd Branch of the Russian Academy for Medical Sciences doing advanced research in pharmacology, Research Institute of Rheumatology, the Regional Cardiology Centre, the Regional Urology Centre, etc.
The University has attracted highly qualified staff with experience of teaching in many regions of the world. Once at the University, many staff has continued to widen their experience by directing short courses or undertaking longer сourses overseas. Nowadays, the University's teaching staff number 763 highly qualified professors and instructors with 11 academicians, 96 professors, and 401 associate professors. Most of them have Ph. D.s or more advanced degrees. Sixty-six departments of the University run the academic programs. At present, about 5000 citizens of Russia and countries of the former Soviet Union and 900 international students from Asia, Africa, Latin, and South America, Germany, and Arab countries attend the University.
Nowadays, the University ranks very high among the medical schools of the Russian Federation. Many university scientists are world-famous due to their significant contribution to the theory and practice of medicine. The University has been training international students since 1962. Students from 113 states of the former Soviet Union, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa have studied at our University. Over this period, 3000 physicians, dentists, pediatricians, and pharmacists have been trained in foreign countries. Since 2000 the Volgograd State Medical University has got an opportunity to teach international students the English language.
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