Medical Biochemistry in North-Caucasus Federal University
Specialist’s program
Faculty of Medicine and Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Medicine
Oksana Anfinogenova, Head of the Department
+7 (8652) 33-08-53
oanfinogenova@ncfu.ru
Accreditation. The program successfully underwent state accreditation in 2020.
Awards and achievements. Students take an active part in various NCFU’s projects – study placements at University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), take first places in federal student projects “Three Sciences Tournament,” in Russian and interuniversity Olympiads (“Physiology,” “Biochemistry is the basis of life”).
Teaching staff. The program is delivered by four Doctors of Medical and Biological Sciences, 13 Candidates of Medical and Biological Sciences.
Facilities and resources. State-of-the-art clinical and laboratory equipment, simulation equipment for drilling first aid skills. All specialized laboratories are fitted with professional state-of-the-art equipment for education and research.
Education. The program is based on training in general medicine and clinical disciplines, in-depth study of clinical disciplines, clinical laboratory diagnostics combined with research, research on the structure and properties of chemical elements, basics of cellular regulation in living organisms.
Research. The research areas are compensatory and adaptive mechanisms, morphofunctional and immuno-physiological features of the organism in ontogenesis. NCFU has the unique educational and scientific clinical and laboratory center comprising the laboratories of immunology, flow cytofluorometry, biochemistry, laboratory hemocytology, simulation center for drilling first aid skills.
Competitive advantages. Close cooperation with clinical practical training facilities, state-of-the-art devices fitted with automated analyzers for developing professional competencies and job functions. Training allows specialists to update their knowledge and develop more medical skills both in Russia and abroad.
Employers and employment. Stavropol Territorial Clinical Diagnostic Center, the City Clinical Emergency Hospital of Stavropol, Stavropol Territorial Clinical Hospital, Stavropol Research Anti-Plague Institute, the forensic medical examination office, Stavropol Territorial Clinical Oncologic Dispensary.
Graduates can work as clinical laboratory diagnostics doctors, bacteriologists and virologists, forensic experts, immunologists, cytogeneticists, biochemistry geneticists, cell and molecular engineering specialists.