Crimea Medical Academy has elaborated a holistic approach to the educational process's organizational, scientific, and methodological aspects. The clinical departments are provided with all the necessary equipment and demonstration aids: educational films, moulages, phantoms, diagnostic inventory - everything has been done for the educational process to meet the modern requirements. The Academy is incredibly proud of its highly qualified academic staff, which totals 799 persons: 106 Doctors of Science, Professors, and 524 Candidates of Science (Ph.D. holders), Associate Professors. 40 Academy professors are academicians, and corresponding domestic and foreign Academies of Sciences 14 are State Prize laureates, 60 have honorary titles.
The Academy provides all the possibilities for students and lecturers to realize their aspirations. There are five museums on the university's territory:
- the museum of Medical Academy history
- the Museum of Anatomy
- the museum of Biology
- the museum of Histology
- Forensic Medicine
Tours to ancient towns and natural attractions of the Crimea are held regularly for foreigners to get acquainted with our peninsula's culture and sights. We are sure that while studying at Medical Academy, our students become not only good doctors but also highly-educated, culturally, and inquisitive people.
Already for 45 years, foreign citizens have been studying at the Medical academy. In 1961 six students from Greece came to us. In 1962 there were 22 students from Iraq, Sudan, Yemen. With every coming year, the contingent of students has been increasing, and several countries, citizens of which have been studying at Crimean State Medical Institute. More than 2.5 thousand specialists have been trained for health services in more than 100 countries for these years.
Stable development of scientific schools and long-term scientific directions is realized in the conditions of active international cooperation with medical faculties, scientific research institutes, scientific centers, and leading laboratories of many countries. Belarus, Ukraine, France, Germany, Austria, U.K., Sweden, Poland, USA, Canada, India, and Malaysia are among mutual scientific programs. Collaborators of the Academy work with foreign partners in 16 international and 13 state programs.
Today the department of biochemistry and biotechnology laboratory (Central Scientific and Research Laboratory – CSRL) – (Professor K. A. Efetov), the department of physiology –(Professor E. V. Evstafieva), department of pathological anatomy – (Professor N.Y.Novikov), the Department of Internal Medicine №2 – (Professor V. A. Beloglazov), department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology – (Professor A. N. Ribalka) are fruitfully participating in the international collaboration. Moreover, the Medical Academy's four clinical departments are testing medicinal preparations according to the international agreement concluded with the leading pharmaceutical firms. More and more often, specialists of the Medical Academy take part in the scientists' international meetings. Only for the last two years, more than 60 collaborators of the Academy have visited conferences and congresses of the highest level in the world's leading countries. The development of international relations in modern conditions provides a high level of the Academy's scientific and pedagogical potential owing to the acquired knowledge, experience, and mental outlook broadening. Scientific activity of the Academy collaborators contributes to integration for solving urgent scientific questions of world medicine.
Scientific research is carried out almost at all the departments, in the central research laboratory and separate scientific laboratories of the Academy. These are the laboratories of clinical immunology, physiology and ecological medicine, microbiology, morphology with electronic microscopy, biotechnology, functional path morphology and surfactant therapy, pharmacology, experimental pathophysiology, immunohistochemistry, and lectin histochemistry, experimental medicine, protein chemistry, and protein complexes.
The privileged direction of the scientific research among the Academy scientists is connected with different national programs regarding our population's health care. The programs on health resort treatment, ecology, tuberculosis, oncology, diabetes mellitus, mother and child health care, AIDS are of great importance.
The clinical departments of Medical Academy are situated at 38 clinical bases throughout Crimea. The workers of clinical departments participate in local and national programs and projects directed toward the rural population's support, reduction of maternal and infant death rate, fight against tuberculosis, cancer, etc. There are several Medical Academy activities undertaken together with medical establishments, namely theoretical and practical conferences, the introduction of new diagnostic and treatment methods into the medical practice, lectures in Epidemiology and Phthisiology for students and resident physicians, different mass media programs intended to influence health behaviors of the public, medical services in different regions of the Crimea.
In cooperation with health care facilities, Medical Academy participates in the national program on the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, the common causes of death in the Russian Federation program on cardio- and neurovascular surgery in the Crimea. Based on the Crimean Republican Hospital named after Semashko N. A. and cardiological dispensary, the academic staff of the Departments of Internal Medicine № 1 (Prof. Khrenov А.А) and № 2 (Prof. Beloglazov V. A.) has introduced into practice the following new methods of treatment for cardiovascular pathology: thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction, coronary ventriculography, implantation of modern artificial pacemaker used in significant cardiac disturbances, etc. With the scientific and methodical help of the University academic staff, in 2006, based on Crimean Republican Hospital named after Semashko N. A., the Center of Invasive Cardiology and Angiology with an intensive therapy unit was established.
