Kursk state medical university

KURSK STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY(KSMU) 

Kursk State Medical University was established in 1935. The past years have been ones of improving the teaching process organization, developing the scientific potential and practical health care, reinforcing the material and technical base. The University has become well-known in the country. Outstanding scientists and practical health care workers are graduates of the University. In 1994 the higher institution obtained the status of a university. Currently it is a multi-profile medical university and a medical educational and cultural centre in the Central Black Earth and Kursk regions thanks to the contributions and efforts of our professors, teachers, staff members. We are proud of fully competent medical professionals who dedicate their lives to promotion of educational and professional excellence.

In 2004 by the decision of the independent public council / European quality/ KSMU is listed in the top 100 universities in Russia. The organizational structure and the material and technical base of the university are constantly changing. To-day the university comprises: a library with a fund of more than 500 thousand copies, Research Institute of Ecological Medicine, a consulting diagnostic policlinic, medical institute, four teaching buildings, five comfortable student hostels, three sport halls, a shooting gallery, a canteen, a café and buffets in the teaching buildings and hostels. The university has a license of the Ministry of general and professional education to conduct educational activity. Post-diploma education is realized in internship, residency training, post-graduate studies. Training of personnel is provided in 4 specialties of doctorate.

The university has trained over 25000 specialists. The instruction is offered at 14 faculties. Annually 700 applicants become students of the university. More than 5000 students are trained at 67 departments. The academic staff of 633 specialists comprises 92 D.Sc. and 333 Ph.D., 2 honored scientists of the Russian Federation, 2 honored workers of higher education of the Russian Federation, 1 honored culture worker of the Russian Federation, 14 honored physicians of the Russian Federation, 32 academicians and corresponding members of the Russian academies including international ones.

KSMU was the first among the medical higher institutions to start training in English that resulted in a possibility to train more than a thousand students from 34 countries worldwide. The university scientists have won recognition both in Russia and throughout the world. Our scientists are the authors of two scientific discoveries. Research and practical herald /Human Health/ was included in 2007 into the list of publications of the Ph.D. The university is a medico-preventive, medico-diagnostic and consultative centre of medical innovative technologies in practical health care.