Moscow Medical Academy
| Первый Московский государственный медицинский университет имени И. М. Сеченова | |
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| Location | Moscow, Russia |
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| Website | https://sechenov.ru/eng/ |
I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (1st MSMU) is the oldest and the largest national medical higher educational institution in the Russian Federation. For more than 250 years I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, previous name - I.M. Sechenov First Moscow Institute of Medicine (before 1990) and I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy (1990 to 2010) - has been playing the leading role in the development of medical science and training of medical and scientific personnel.
Today the academy is a major center for training, certification and upgrading the medical personnel and pharmacists. Academic studies are closely integrated with fundamental and applied research, providing highly qualified medical care to the population and promoting the advances of medical science and pharmaceutics.
The academy is at the head of the academic - methodological association of Russian medical institutions.
It has 20 buildings for studies, classrooms and lecture halls, a clinical center with 17 diverse clinics for 3000 patients, the research center, the main library, publishing section, a video-photo department, the laboratories, the botanical garden and several students' hostels.
There are the following faculties with 177 chairs at the Academy: medical, disease-prevention, pharmaceutical (day and evening courses), stomatological, higher nurses' training (day and evening courses), foreign undergraduate education and foreign students faculty, continuous professional training, continuous disease-prevention education, pharmacist upgrading, health service management, academic education, and premedical education (as school-university and college-university complexes).
About 9000 students from Russia and foreign countries study annually at the Academy. They are trained in:
1st MSMU receives students paying for their tuition fees from Russia and other countries. A number of clinics of the University are also receiving patients mainly for a fee or from voluntary health insurance.
About 1500 graduates are involved in post-graduate training as part of internship (primary specialization), clinical internship (residency), covering all clinical specialities, or post-graduate courses. The Academy employs about 2 thousand members of the faculty, research associates and doctors including 300 Professors and more than 1,000 Ph.D. in medicine. The achievements of the scientists working at the I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy are widely known both in Russia and abroad.
First Moscow State Medical University (MSMU) develops extensive scientific cooperation with medical research and training centers abroad. It is a member of the World Association of Universities. International, All-Russia, intercollegiate scientific congresses, conferences, symposia and seminars are regularly organized by or with the Academy's support. A number of well-known scientists from MMA participate as specialists and experts in the work of UN, WHO and UNESCO bodies.
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