General Medicine in Samara State Medical University
Specialist’s program
Institute of Clinical Medicine
Dmitrii Konstantinov, Director
+7 (846) 374-10-04, ext. 4694
general@samsmu.ru
Accreditation. State accreditation. International accreditation.
Awards and achievements. The program underwent international external expert evaluation in 2016. Since 2013 the program has been recognized as the best as part of the annual project Best Educational Programs of Innovative Russia. In 2022, the program was accredited for five years by the Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating IAAR according to the standards of the World Federation for Medical Education — WFME and included in the European Register of Accredited Higher Education Programs DEQAR. Since 2020, the program has been taught in two languages.
Teaching staff. The academic degree holders ratio is 87%, 40% have an academic degree of Doctor of Sciences. The teaching staff includes one Academician of the RAS, one Corresponding Member of the RAS, five Honored Science Workers, 22 Honored Doctors of the RF, seven Honored Workers of Higher Education of the RF, two Honored Healthcare Workers, Excellent Workers of Public Health. The university develops academic staff mobility. Leading researchers from Russia, Germany, France, Italy, the CIS countries are engaged in the teaching process.
Facilities and resources. Training is provided at 56 departments, at the university clinics and multidisciplinary clinical facilities. Students undergo practice-oriented training working on their practical skills at the multidisciplinary accreditation and simulation center equipped with robot simulators with specialized software. There is an extensive library collection, comfortable reading halls with an electronic resource database.
Education. Practice-oriented and modular training, project activities, development of new digital competencies for IT medicine, active and interactive teaching methods, simulation technologies (computer-aided dummy robots, virtual simulators of the 7th level of realism), the modern assessment system (multiple-choice questions-MCQ, a mini-clinical examination, an objective structured clinical examination-OSCE), collaboration with the Breakthrough Research Center, the research and production technology park, research and education centers.
Research. Brain function research, a brain-machine interface, biotechnologies, minimally invasive surgery with monitor visualization, prevention methods aimed at early detection of oncological diseases, modern methods of X-ray diagnostics, rehabilitation and physiotherapy. Competitive advantages. Individual learning paths for students, development of international cooperation and academic student mobility, internships at foreign clinics as part of the IFMSA program. Most of the research is conducted to benefit applied medicine.
Employers and employment. The university actively cooperates with the leading medical organizations in Russia that provide recruiting services, which facilitates rapid and high-quality graduate employment.