Northern State Medical University

 Northern State Medical University is a Russian higher education institution. It was founded in 1932 by a decree of Council of People's Commissars on the establishment of the Arkhangelsk State Medical Institute as a training base for healthcare professionals in the European North of Russia.

In 1935, ASMI created the Department of Physical Culture and Medical Rehabilitation, headed by Professor G. I. Krasnoselsky.

In 1994, ASMI was transformed into the Arkhangelsk State Medical Academy (ASMA); in 2000, ASMA, in turn, became the Northern State Medical University (SSMU).

From 1993 to 2012, he was the rector of SSMU, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Pavel Ivanovich Sidorov.

Since April 17 , 2014, the Rector of SSMU is Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Lyubov Nikolaevna Gorbatova.

Faculties

Educational activities at the university are carried out in 5 specialties of secondary and 18 specialties of higher professional education, postgraduate education programs (postgraduate studies-35, internship-28, residency-66 specialties); programs of additional professional education (professional retraining and advanced training in the profile of the OOP of the university). The total number of faculties is 11; the total number of departments is 40.

Medical Faculty

Faculty of Pediatrics

Faculty of Dentistry

International Faculty of General Practitioners

Faculty of Pharmacy

Faculty of Preventive Medicine and Medical Biochemistry

Faculty of Clinical Psychology, Social Work and Adaptive Physical Culture

Faculty of Economics and Management

Public Faculty of Mental Health

Faculty of Advanced Training and Professional Retraining of Specialists

Faculty of Nursing Education

Departments

The educational process is carried out by 40 departments.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Department of Human Anatomy and Operative Surgery

Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation

Department of Hygiene and Medical Ecology

Department of Histology, Cytology and Embryology

Department of Hospital Therapy and Endocrinology

Department of Humanities

Department of Pediatric Surgery

Department of Foreign Languages and Russian as a Foreign Language

Department of Infectious Diseases

Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Microbiology and Laboratory Diagnostics

Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy

Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases

Department of Radiation Diagnostics, Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Department of Medical Biology and Genetics

Department of Medical and Biological Physics

Department of Mobilization Training of Public Health and Disaster Medicine

Department of Neonatology and Perinatology

Department of Normal Physiology

Department of General and Bioorganic Chemistry

Department of Public Health, Public Health and Social Work

Department of Orthopedic Dentistry

Department of Pathological Anatomy, Forensic Medicine and Law

Department of Pathological Physiology

Department of Pedagogy and Psychology

Department of Pediatrics

Department of Outpatient Therapy and Nursing

Department of Propaedeutics of Children's Diseases and Polyclinic Pediatrics

Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology

Department of Family Medicine and Internal Medicine

Department of Pediatric Dentistry

Department of Therapeutic Dentistry

Department of Traumatology, Orthopedics and Military Surgery

Department of Faculty Therapy

Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy

Department of Physical Culture and Medical Rehabilitation

Department of Phthisiopulmonology

Department of Surgery

Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Surgical Dentistry

Department of Economics and Management

Activity

Northern State Medical University plays a leading role in the implementation of regional policy in the field of medical education and science. The university trains personnel for the Arctic region of Russia. As part of the social partnership, cooperation agreements were signed with the Government of the Arkhangelsk Region, the administration of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Ministries of Health of the Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Kaliningrad, Novgorod regions, the Republics of Karelia and Komi, and the Department of Health of the Vologda Region.

In addition to training young personnel, the university actively implements continuing professional education and implements additional education programs using innovative methods, including e-learning, distance learning and simulation technologies.

The university is actively implementing a system of continuing medical education with the use of modern educational technologies: simulation training, internships, distance education. In 2016, the Center for Accreditation and Simulation Education was established.

One of the key tasks of the university's development is the integration of education, science and practical healthcare. In order to carry out fundamental and applied scientific research and implement its results in practical healthcare, the University has established a small innovative enterprise. A special feature of the university's research areas are developments in the use of bioresources of the North.

In 2019, SSMU entered the top 100 Russian universities according to Forbes. SSMU entered the top five Russian medical universities according to the July 2019 issue of the world university ranking Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. The scientific journal "Human Ecology", published by the University, is included in the list of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications approved by the Higher Attestation Commission, and is also included in the international Scopus database.

Today, SSMU has all the prerequisites for joining global network collaborations aimed at solving issues facing modern education, science, and practical healthcare.

Since 2005, the university operates Museum of the History of Medicine of the European North.

Teaching staff

Today, the university employs brilliant specialists, professionals in their field – 485 teachers and researchers, 86 of them are doctors of science and professors, 10 people have a foreign doctoral degree (PhD).

Research activities

Scientific research is conducted in the following key areas::

health monitoring and disease prevention for residents of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation;

medical and psychological aspects of ensuring security in the Arctic;

medical aspects of environmental safety;

marine medicine;

development of pharmaceutical biotechnologies and resource science;

ensuring the availability and quality of medical care for the population;

training of personnel for the Arctic zone and near-Arctic territories of the Russian Federation.

Contribution of science to the development of regional healthcare

International project "Learn your heart";

Arkhangelsk Regional Cancer Registry;

Injury prevention program;

Arkhangelsk Regional Register of Births;

Development of telemedicine technologies;

Tuberculosis diagnostic program;

Study of the climate factor and adaptive capabilities of humans in the Arctic to increase life expectancy;

Resilience of an organism in extreme living conditions (cellular, humoral, molecular and genetic mechanisms of endothelial dysfunction development in the Arctic and Arctic regions of the Russian Federation).

International cooperation

SSMU is a research and educational center for the development and implementation of projects in the field of health and social work in the Arctic and the Barents Euro-Arctic region;

150 international scientific and educational projects have been implemented;

SSMU has an International School of Public Health, accepted as a member of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER);

28 existing bilateral agreements with universities, RECs, clinics from 11 countries;

SSMU graduates have defended more than 50 Phd theses abroad.

The scientific journal "Human Ecology", published by the University, is included in the list of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals. It is included in the List of peer-reviewed scientific journals of the Higher Attestation Commission for publishing the main scientific results of dissertations (medical and biological sciences), the bibliographic and abstract database Scopus, the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), the international reference system for periodicals and continuing publications Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, the Norwegian National Center for Research Data, the abstract journal and VINITI database, the Russian Science Citation Index, CyberLeninka (located in the open access scientific electronic library), Global Health databases, CAB Abstracts, ProQuest, InfoBase Index.

Every year, the university hosts more than 30 scientific, practical and methodological conferences and seminars, including more than 20 international ones.

SSMU has several well-established algorithms for creating branches of research centers. For example, the northern research centers of the Northwestern Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, the branch of the Hematology Research Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, the Research Institute of Arctic Medicine, and the Research Institute of Marine Medicine.

Students

The number of students and trainees is more than 10 thousand, including about 5 thousand students, including more than a thousand foreign students from 15 countries.