Yaroslavl State Medical Academy YSMA, Russia

The need for the creation of a higher medical educational institution in Yaroslavl was dictated by the Great Patriotic War, which required a multiple increase in medical personnel. In 1943 the Belarusian Medical Institute, formed from the evacuated Minsk and Vitebsk medical institutes, resumed its activity in Yaroslavl. After the liberation of the western regions of the country, the university returned to its republic, and on August 15, 1944 the Yaroslavl Medical Institute was opened. In the year of its 50th anniversary (in 1994) the university received the status of an academy, and in the year of the 70th anniversary (in 2014) – the status of the university.

Currently, the Yaroslavl State Medical University is a multidisciplinary university providing training, professional retraining and advanced training for doctors and pharmacists for many regions of Russia, an important research center in which fundamental and applied research is conducted, information technologies and innovative activities are actively developing.

The university successfully operates 6 student faculties (medical, pediatric, pharmaceutical, dental, secondary professional and pre-university education, clinical psychology and social work), which train specialists in 7 areas of higher education (specialty and undergraduate) and 2 specialties of secondary vocational education , as well as the Institute of Postgraduate Education with two faculties.

Currently, the university trains over 4,000 students, interns, residents and graduate students, including from foreign countries. Over 600 teachers work at 60 departments, including more than 100 doctors of science and more than 330 candidates of science. In the team of teachers, academician of RAS, Honored Scientists, Honored Workers of Higher Education, Honored Doctors, Honored Health Workers and Honored Workers of Culture of the Russian Federation, members of public Russian, international and foreign academies.

The University has a license for educational activities and a certificate of state accreditation of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science. Based on the results of monitoring the effectiveness of universities, conducted by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the university regularly confirms the status of an effective university.

In 8 educational buildings of the university there are modern educational audiences and inter-cafeteria laboratories, 13 computer classes, a fundamental library with a fund of more than 500 thousand books, administrative subdivisions. The work of clinical departments is carried out in the basic city and regional medical and pharmaceutical organizations on the basis of agreements on joint activities. The center of simulation training operates, equipped with modern training simulators with a high degree of realism. The center provides an opportunity to practice practical skills in conditions that are as close as possible to the conditions of professional activity, conduct direct television broadcasts of operations performed in the city’s medical institutions, participate in interactive conferences and teleconferences, and also wide opportunities for preparation and carrying out of primary accreditation of experts. To prepare pharmacists, the University has a modern educational and production pharmacy and a nursery of medicinal plants “Skobykino”. The social base of the university includes 5 dormitories, dining rooms for employees and students, an educational and sports building.

During its activity, the university has trained more than 30,000 doctors and pharmacists, including those in Asia, Africa and America. More than 48 thousand doctors, pharmacists and teachers passed various forms of professional retraining and advanced training. Graduates of the university successfully work in different regions of Russia, as well as in the states of near and far abroad. Among the graduates there are famous scientists, heads of public health services, authoritative experts of many branches of medicine, prominent public figures.

Education of foreign students both on budget (governmental) and contract basis was started by YSMU in 1992. YSMU has good social facilities and structure (including five hostels, sport centers,internet service, student healthcare center, summer camp on the river of Volga, and a garden of medical plants). YSMU is a big and well-known educational, research and scientific center in the fields of fundamental, clinical medicine and pharmacy.

Medical training and education are conducted by 55 departments. The academic staff of YSMU consists of more than 550 persons. Among them, more than 400 have the M.D. and Ph.D. titles (including 310 candidates of sciences, assistant and associated professors and 70 doctors of sciences and full professors).