Preventive Medicine in Bashkir State Medical University

Specialist's program

Faculty of Preventive Medicine

Shamil GALIMOV,

Dean

Tel. +7 347273-56-94

E-mail: mpf_mb@bashgmu.ru

Achievements. The program underwent external expert evaluation (the Guild of Experts in the Sphere of Professional Education and the National Center for Public Accreditation) and was ranked among the Best Educational Programs of Innovative Russia. The students are winners and diploma winners of scientific contests such as UMNIK, HealthNet, RosMolodezh, the youth forum of the Volga Federal District iVolga, holders of the RF President scholarship and the scholarship of the Head of Bashkortostan.

Teaching staff. Teachers are members of professional associations, editorial boards of medical journals, special academic and methodological commissions of the RF Ministry of Health, dissertation councils, participants of international scientific programs, projects and conferences.

Facilities and resources. Students are trained at specialized institutions of Rospotrebnadzor, including Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology, the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology.

Research is conducted as part of sectoral and regional programs of the RAS, the Academy of Sciences of Bashkortostan, Rospotrebnadzor in the field of scientific substantiation of minimization of public health risks in Russia; evaluation of reproductive function; aspects of children and adolescents' physical development.

Education. About 50 departments train specialists in health protection to ensure the sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the public, including surveillance in the sphere of consumer rights protection. There is a simulation center for the acquisition of practical skills. Students have access to the ELS. Active and interactive teaching methods (computer simulations, business games and role plays, clinical case studies) are used.

Strategic partners. The Rospotrebnadzor institutions, Research Institute of Labor Medicine of the RAS, North-Western SMU, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow SMU.

International projects and programs. The teaching staff participates in the international project of the WHO Regional Office for Europe on the development of the Russian system of occupational health, safety and environment management, conducts joint research on evaluation of ore mining industry workers’ reproductive health with West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov SMU (Aktobe).

Competitive advantages. Prospective specialists undertake educational internships and work placement at major medical institutions in Ufa and the republic, the Rospotrebnadzor institutions with state-of-the-art diagnostic, laboratory and therapeutic equipment.

Assistance and support for international students and teachers. The citizens of CIS and other foreign countries (Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, etc.) are studying at the faculty.