KSMU today

Kursk State Medical University was established in 1935. The past years have been ones of improving the teaching process organization, developing the scientific potential and practical health care, reinforcing the material and technical base. The University has become well-known in the country. Outstanding scientists and practical health care workers are graduates of the University. In 1994 the higher institution obtained the status of a university. Currently it is a multi-profile medical university and a medical educational and cultural centre in the Central Black Earth and Kursk regions thanks to the contributions and efforts of our professors, teachers, staff members. We are proud of fully competent medical professionals who dedicate their lives to promotion of educational and professional excellence.

In 2004 by the decision of the independent public council “European quality” KSMU is listed in the top 100 universities in Russia. The organizational structure and the material and technical base of the university are constantly changing. To-day the university comprises: a library with a fund of more than 500 thousand copies, Research Institute of Ecological Medicine, a consulting diagnostic policlinic, medical institute, four teaching buildings, five comfortable student hostels, three sport halls, a shooting gallery, a canteen, a café and buffets in the teaching buildings and hostels. The university has a licence of the Ministry of general and professional education to conduct educational activity. Post-diploma education is realized in internship, residency training, post-graduate studies. Training of personnel is provided in 4 specialities of doctorate.

The university has trained over 25000 specialists. The instruction is offered at 14 faculties. Annually 700 applicants become students of the university. More than 5000 students are trained at 67 departments. The academic staff of 633 specialists comprises 92 D.Sc. and 333 Ph.D., 2 honoured scientists of the Russian Federation, 2 honoured workers of higher education of the Russian Federation, 1 honoured culture worker of the Russian Federation, 14 honoured physicians of the Russian Federation, 32 academicians and corresponding members of the Russian academies including international ones.

The form and the contents of the educational process have changed, up-to-date methods of instruction and knowledge assessment are being improved: multimedia and problem lectures, lectures-dialogues, computer technologies for training, business games, different kinds of testing, rating knowledge assessment. The centre for information technologies of training, the centre for practical training, the centre of quality management, the department of humanitarian education, interdepartmental teaching display classes, internet-classes have been organized. The training is based on the application of the research results and innovative technologies, initiated by the Department for administration of innovative activity of the university. Principally new information and teaching environment promotes achievement of educational goals and improving the training quality of graduates. The university concluded agreements on cooperation with the leading medical institutions of the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan. KSMU was the first among the medical higher institutions to start training in English that resulted in a possibility to train more than a thousand students from 34 countries worldwide.

On the base of the university there are 12 scientific schools, numerous scientific laboratories, 5 councils for defending Ph.D. and D.Sc. theses, Central – Black Earth Centre of RAMS. The university scientists have won recognition both in Russia and throughout the world. Our scientists are the authors of two scientific discoveries. Research and practical herald “Human Health” was included in 2007 into the list of publications of the Ph.D. theses investigation results on the recommendation of the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles. Annually the university organizes traditional instructional and methodical conferences, international, All-Russia and regional scientific conferences, scientific sessions and forums of the student science with subsequent publications of the research results.

The university is a medico-preventive, medico-diagnostic and consultative centre of medical innovative technologies in practical health care. The academic staff of the clinical departments explain the methods of realization of the priority national project “Health” in the region.

Extra-curricular activities involve numerous Centres: of culture and leisure; psychological and social support to students; diagnostics of social health of a student family. Annually the administration of the university holds meetings with all categories of students, residents and post-graduate students. The system of work with the students’ parents, social support of the needy students and promotion of the personality growth are being constantly improved. The following student bodies, and clubs are functioning at the university: “Travel world”’, “Hygienist”, a volley-ball club “Medical student”, a sport club, a camp for psychological adaptation of the first -year students to the academic process at a medical school.

At present complex tasks related to the university joining the European educational area are being solved.