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Doctor is our profession, medicine is our vocation" – these words are the motto of Stavropol State Medical University. The pages of the chronicle of the university are filled with interesting events, achievements, victories, behind each of which is the hard work and talent of many generations of teachers and staff of the university, outstanding clinicians, prominent scientists, wonderful teachers, known not only in Russia but also abroad.

 

The first page of the history of Stavropol State Medical University is dated 1938, when 166 students crossed the doorstep of the newly opened university. It was these boys and girls who went straight from the student bench in 1942 to the front, from which many of them were not destined to return. The young university had to survive the suspension of activity for the period of the occupation of the city, one of the first among the institutions of the North Caucasus to restore the interrupted work, to reorient the topics of scientific research to the urgent tasks of helping the front and wartime healthcare.

 

The opening of its new faculties, its own clinics and branches, the creation of large structural units and their equipping with modern equipment became a kind of historical milestones marking certain stages of the university's development.

 

In different years, the university was headed by A.T. Mogilnitsky, P.V. Polosin, V.G. Budylin, V.Yu. Pervushin, Yu.P. Mikhailichenko, V.V. Bodulin, B.D. Minaev, V.N. Muravyeva, V.I. Koshel. Currently, the acting rector of StSMU is V.N. Mazharov.

 

In 2021, for the first time in its history, the university among the leading 14 medical universities is included in the TOP 100 best Russian universities according to Forbes magazine. According to the results of the monitoring of the effectiveness of universities conducted by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, StSMU consistently confirms compliance with criteria indicators for each of the analyzed areas of work, and for some it significantly exceeds the threshold values.

 

The university is a scientific, educational and clinical complex nowadays, including the Institute of Additional Professional Education, the Essentuki branch, its own clinics and polyclinics, a scientific and innovative association, an accreditation and simulation center, a Small medical Academy and much more.

 

StSMU implements 4 programs of higher education, 6 bachelor's degree programs, 5 master's degree programs, 49 programs in the areas of residency training, 29 postgraduate programs, 2 secondary special education.

 

Students of the university have practical training on the basis of 249 medical organizations of the Stavropol Territory.

 

Highly qualified teachers of 72 departments are involved in the educational process, including 54 Honored Doctors of the Russian Federation, 2 Honored Scientists of the Russian Federation, 1 corresponding member of the International Academy of Sciences of Pedagogical Education, 3 Honored Workers of higher Education, 75 Excellent Health workers, 110 doctors of sciences, 58 professors, 432 candidates of Sciences, 170 associate professors.

 

Currently, 7,528 students of StSMU are students of specialty, bachelor's, master's degree, students of the Essentuki branch, residents, graduate students, more than 1,500 of them are foreign citizens from 42 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin and Central America. More than 80 percent of students study on the target direction. More than 5 thousand people annually undergo training, retraining and advanced training at the Institute of Additional Professional Education of StSMU. In total, over the years of the university's activity, almost 35,000 certified specialists have been trained.

 

Modern educational technologies are used in the educational space of the university: the educational process takes place in multimedia classrooms, the equipment of which allows for teleconferences, distance and on-line learning. StSMU has one of the largest accreditation and simulation centers in the South of Russia, which includes specialized clusters of cardiopulmonary resuscitation; general care, nursing manipulations; obstetrics and gynecology, emergency pediatrics; emergency and emergency conditions; dentistry and orthodontics; independent work and expert assessment of knowledge.

 

The widest range of modern equipment of the center, including simulators, phantoms, simulators of expert class, allows to conduct on the basis of the center the practical stage of the annual biomedical Olympiad for potential applicants; practical classes for students and residents; the stage of passing practical skills during the state final certification of university graduates, the preparation of student teams of StSMU to participate in Olympiads in surgery, pediatrics, emergency care of interuniversity, regional and all-Russian level; accreditation events, professional retraining and advanced training - for healthcare professionals. The arsenal of the center has recently been replenished with a simulated operating unit with equipment as close to reality as possible; a respiratory module that includes a high-class anesthesia and respiratory apparatus, a mechanical model of an adult patient and a child's lung, a videobronchoscope, a videolarynnoscope, a set of laryngoscopes for tracheal intubation. Also at the beginning of the academic year, the dental microscope MD500 CALIPSO of the company SCANER, the physiodispenser NSK Surgic Pro (Japan) for implantation, a system for plasmolifting in dentistry were included in the educational process at the Faculty of Dentistry, which allow future dentists to master all the innovations of this rapidly developing field of medicine while still a student.

 

The University has the largest scientific medical library in the South of Russia, the fund of which contains 606,269 printed and 199,497 electronic publications, the scientific library of StSMU is a member of the Consortium of the network electronic Library of Higher Educational Institutions on the platform of  OOO "EBS LAN".

 

Since 2017, StSMU has been implementing an experimental direction of training applicants: the university has concluded cooperation agreements with schools in Stavropol, Kislovodsk, Essentuki on the creation of specialized medical classes "Medicus" on their basis with in-depth study of Latin, chemistry and biology. The programs developed by the leading teachers of StSMU allow school graduates to gain higher-quality knowledge in specialized subjects for medical universities, to form a strong motivation for the profession of a doctor, to lay a solid foundation for studying at a medical university.

 

The university has 7 scientific schools: surgeons; therapists; psychiatrists, neurologists, clinical psychologists; pharmacologists and clinical pharmacologists; dermatovenerologists; dentists; pediatricians. In recent years, university scientists have made scientific breakthroughs in several socially significant branches of scientific knowledge. Within the framework of the scientific platform "preventive environment", research is being conducted on the study of predictors of early aging of the vascular bed in young people, which fully meets the requirements of modern approaches of 3P-4P medicine. International relations with scientific collectives of Germany, Great Britain, Turkey and India have been established thanks to the implementation of research within the framework of the scientific platform "regenerative medicine". For more than thirty years, university scientists have been studying the diverse properties of the hormone melatonin. The results obtained have already received international recognition due to the prospects of the drug in a new direction of scientific research – anti-aging and preventive medicine, and according to the latest international research data - in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Research is actively underway for new approaches in the delivery of medicines using nanotechnology. Innovative approaches are being studied to overcome antibiotic resistance of pathogens of infectious diseases of out- and in-hospital etiology with the help of natural antimicrobial peptides. A wide resonance was caused by the work of scientists from the University and the Pyatigorsk Medical and Pharmaceutical Institute, a branch of VolGMU, with Indian colleagues to evaluate the effectiveness of medicinal compositions containing extracts of plants growing in the territories of the CMS, as well as on the east coast of India. Taking into account the social significance of COVID-19, StSMU scientists have begun scientific research to assess the features of the immunological status of patients with SARS-CoV-2. Scientific research has been initiated and is being conducted within the framework of 12 topics devoted to various aspects of diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes in patients with a new coronavirus infection. The results obtained in the course of the work made it possible to propose 2 new test systems for detecting humoral and cellular immunity to Covid-19: to determine the level of IgG to the spike protein SARS-Cov-2 and the activity of memory B-lymphocytes to it.

 

The clinical complex of the university is represented by clinics of eye microsurgery, borderline conditions, endoscopic and minimally invasive surgery, dental clinics (children's and adult), a medical center and a center for immunoprophylaxis and prevention of infectious diseases. Clinical units of StSMU, being its clinical bases, provide qualified medical care to residents of both the Stavropol Territory and the entire Russian Federation as federal medical organizations, and also provide conditions for the implementation of the educational process at all stages of becoming a specialist. This integration of treatment and training processes is aimed at forming a practice-oriented approach within the framework of compliance with the requirements of federal state educational standards.

 

By the decision of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Stavropol State Medical University was appointed coordinator of the scientific and educational medical cluster of the North Caucasus Federal District, whose participants are 8 universities and medical faculties of the region. In order to coordinate the development of all areas of activity of the StSMU cluster, steps have been taken to harmonize educational approaches, curricula, and work programs of NOMC participating universities; the creation of new interuniversity research teams working in relevant areas of medical science development has been initiated; assistance was provided to universities in improving the marketing strategy for recruiting foreign students.

 

The social infrastructure of the university includes 4 dormitories for students, a sports and recreation complex with a swimming pool, cultural and leisure centers, educational work and psychological support, civil and military-patriotic education, a network of canteens, a sports and recreation camp "Stavropol" on the Black Sea coast.

 

ВStSMU has created excellent conditions for the realization of leadership qualities and creative abilities of students. Young people participate in public and political activities, are engaged in vocal and dance studios, sports sections, are members of KVN and adequately represent StSMU at various creative festivals, contests, competitions. Students' volunteer activity, which was especially in demand during the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection COVID-19, also contributes to immersion in future professional activities, education of personal qualities necessary for medical workers.