VOLGOGRAD STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (VSMU) 

Volgograd is a big scientific and educational centre southern of Russia. There are more than 20 higher educational establishments with over 60,000 students in Volgograd. The Volgograd State Medical University situated in the heart of the city is the leader among them. The Volgograd Medical Institute was founded in 1935. In 1993 it was granted the status of the University. Due to the State Licence N 24-0627 the University provides higher, supplementary, post-diploma and vocational education.

The Volgograd State Medical University has been licensed by the Ministry of Education of Russian Federation to train specialists for foreign countries.

The University has been included in the list of medical educational establishments recognized by WHO which enables our graduates to hold a job in any country of the world after taking national examinations

The University is headed by a prominent Russian scientist, Academician of the Russian University for Medical Sciences, Professor, M.D. Petrov Vladimir Ivanovich.

The Volgograd State Medical University has extensive international contacts and delegations from the USA, India, the People's Republic of China, Bangladesh and other countries headed by top Embassy officials pay visits to the University. To further bilateral collaboration in the field of education, culture and research, the University has signed an agreement on cooperation with a North Chinese University (the city of Girin).

The Volgograd State Medical University collaborates with the World Health Organisation (WHO), has extensive scientific contacts with many foreign higher educational establishments; it participates in joint international programs with Belgium, France, Germany, Arkansas University of Medical Sciences (USA) in such fields as family medicine, arterial hypertension, epidemiology, tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment, pharmacology, pharmacy, etc. The Russian-American Family Practice Clinic has opened in Volgograd recently, the first one in the southern part of Russia.

The Volgograd State Medical University has its own scientific and methodic schools. The Research Institute for Pharmacology and that for Rheumatology are attached to the University. New trends in Pharmacology, Rheumatology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, etc. are being developed.

The University's students are 3700 Russian and former USSR citizens and 700 international students from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Germany and Arab countries.

At its disposal, the University has 4 educational buildings, 5 big multi profile clinics for 7000 in-patients with departments of surgery, cardiology, traumatology, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynaecology, equipped with up to date facilities, experimental bases, a computer centre and comfortable hostels. There is also a Cardiology Centre which is one of the leaders in the field in the Russian Federation.

The University has been training international students since 1962. Students from 70 countries of Europe, Asia, Latin America have studied at our University. Over this period 2500 general practitioners, dentists and paediatricians have been trained for foreign countries.

About 70 foreign doctors take post-diploma courses every year. Our graduates work in many countries: the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, India, Arab and African countries, etc.

The faculty of General Medicine trains specialists in internal disease, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry, otorhinolaryngology, dermatology and venereology, infectious diseases, etc. The departments of the faculty are equipped with modern diagnostic facilities. Foreign scientists and consultants are invited to deliver lectures. The course of studies is for 6 years.