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Faculties
and Institutes:
Faculty of
General Medicine
Pediatric
Faculty
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of
Pharmacy
Medico-prophylactic
Faculty
International Institute of
Medical Education and Cooperation
Institute of Nursing
Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education
The Faculty of General Medicine
 The year of
foundation — 1930.The Faculty enrolls annually up to 400 students, among
them 200 students are educated on the state-funded basis. Full-time
training is supported during a 6-year period. During the time of its
existence the Faculty prepared more than 30 000 doctors, among them
340 foreign medical specialists from different countries, namely, from
Syria, Pakistan, Jordan, Yemen, Sudan, Morocco and other countries. The
teaching is provided by 345 faculty members, among those there are 46
Doctors of Medical Science, 190 Ph.D.s in Medicine, 40 Professors and 57
Associate Professors.  At present
the Faculty’s leading specialists and heads of the departments are
well-known due to their achievements in different medical fields:
hyperbaric oxygenation, treatment of respiratory diseases, cardiology,
ecology, pharmacological issues of air and space flights, treatment of
infertility, laser therapy, abdominal surgery. Leading healthcare
settings of Voronezh and its Region serve the clinical bases for the
Faculty.
Pediatric
Faculty
 The year of foundation — 1933.
Annual enrollment at the Pediatric Faculty is
140 to 150 students, among them there are 100 students whose education is
state funded. The training is done in the full-time program during 6
years.
There are 11 Departments at the Faculty. The
Faculty staff includes 4 academicians, 13 professors, 14 Doctors of
Medical Science, 53 Ph.D.s and 19 associate professors.
The Pediatric Faculty is renowned for its
scientific research and clinical counseling in different pediatric
fields: pediatric pulmonology, pediatric nephrology, neonatology and
pediatric surgery. The Faculty’s clinical resources (above 2000 beds) are
made up of multi-field and specialized pediatric hospitals, equipped with
modern facilities.
The Faculty of Dentistry
 The year of foundation — 1957.
During its 50-year existence the Faculty
prepared above 6000 dental specialists, working in different regions of
the RF and abroad.
Annual enrollment at the Faculty of Dentistry is
up to 200 students, among them there are 50 students whose training is
state funded.
The Faculty staff includes 137 teachers, among
them 26 Doctors of Medical Science, 15 Professors, 82 PhDs and 4
Associate Professors. Experienced dental specialists, working in
hospitals and outpatient settings of the city and its region are also
involved in the academic work of the Faculty. The Center for dental clerkship is the Academy’s Dental
outpatient hospital. Since 1961 it has been functioning as a clinical and
educational base for six  main
Faculty Departments. It is also a research, academic and clinical Center,
providing dental care and consultations for the entire Black Soil Region.
The Department of Therapeutic Dentistry maintains 10 international
agreements currently in force with German teaching and dental Centers and
firms, producing dental materials, and it took out above 20 patents for
new diagnostic schemes and treatment methods in dentistry.
Faculty of Pharmacy
 Having an intercollegiate status in previous
years the Faculty developed its own academic curriculum and became an
independent unit in 2003.
Annual enrollment at the Faculty of Pharmacy is
60 students at the full time course and 90 students at the part time
course. Both full time and part time education is provided on a
commercial basis. During their study students have training in 37
subjects at 17 Departments of the Academy, including 3 Departments where
training only in pharmaceutical subjects is conducted. Lectures,
practical and laboratory classes as well as colloquiums are carried out by
the teachers of the Academy, among them there are 15 Professors, 3
Doctors of Medical science, 11 Associate Professors, 31 PhDs.
The youngest Faculty in the Academy’s structure,
it educates specialists in pharmacy awarding primary qualification
«Pharmacist» upon the course completion. Graduates of the Faculty work in
such fields as management, receipt and distribution of medications;
traditional and advanced technologies in pharmaceutical industry;
standardization and certification of drugs and their quality control.
Pharmaceutical practical training is done in the largest pharmacies of
the city ranked  as the1st and 2nd category drugstores; drug
storage areas of the city, its region and Ministry of Defense;
Pharmaceutical Factory and the best healthcare settings, included into
the Academy’s clinical resources.
At the present time all specialized departments
of the Faculty work out and introduce new methods and techniques of
innovative teaching and scientific researches. The Faculty’s brand in
educational work is teaching students to provide pharmaceutical
care. All students of the Faculty
are involved in the work of students’ scientific societies. Most of our
graduates have scientific publications. The Faculty conducts scientific
work in the field of chemico-toxicological and pharmacoeconomical
analyses, dosage forms advancement, marketing analysis of medical,
pharmaceutical products and service.
Medico-prophylactic Faculty
 Medico-prophylactic Faculty was founded in 2004.
Prophylaxis is one of the most important branches of medicine. The vision
of preventive medicine is to prevent and decline the deleterious effect
of negative environmental factors (biological: viral, bacterial,
parasitic and others; social: nutrition, living, labor and rest
conditions) on a human being; prevention of infectious and mass
noninfectious diseases of the population.
65 teachers work at the departments of the
Faculty, among them 10 Doctors of Medical Science, including 9
Professors, 30 PhDs, including 10 Associate Professors.
The work of specialists in preventive medicine
is forwarded to realize the constitutional right of citizens for health
protection and favorable environment.
The students are offered training in the program
of "Preventive Medicine".
The training is offered in the directions of
hygiene, epidemiology with the following work as hygienists: in general
hygiene, occupational hygiene, communal hygiene, nutrition hygiene,
hygiene of children and adolescents. The Faculty conducts training of
epidemiologists, microbiologists, virologists, immunologists and
specialists in the area of laboratory business.
Duration of training in the Faculty is 6 years
in the full time program. Graduates are given a qualification of a
"doctor - hygienist, epidemiologist".
International Institute of Medical Education and Cooperation
(IIMEC)
The year of foundation — 2008.
The International Faculty of Medical Education,
founded in 1992, was reorganized into the International Institute of
Medical Education and Cooperation. 
International students are offered training in
the following programs: «General Medicine», «Pediatrics», «Dentistry»,
«Pharmacy» and in “Nursing” at the department of secondary medical and
pharmaceutical education.
During the whole period of work first as an
international faculty, then as an
institute 540 specialists have been educated for 40 countries of the
world, particularly: Bangladesh, Germany, Greece, Jordan, Iraq, Iran,
Israel, Cameroon, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan,
Tunis and other countries. 3 postgraduate students have defended their
theses for PhD degree, and 7 postgraduate students are being trained now.
 Since the language of instruction is Russian, the Russian Language Department was
established in the Faculty.
In 2004 for the purpose of enlarging the
enrollment of foreign students, particularly from South-Eastern Asia, and
taking into consideration the experience of leading medical institutes of
Russia, the IIMEC introduced English Medium course in General Medicine specialty.
 The program of the course consists of 3 stages:
I stage: pre-university training – learning
Russian and pre-clinical sciences;
II stage: 1st – 3rd years
– study of pre-clinical sciences of medico-biological specialization
(English as a language of instruction) along with learning Russian in an
intensive way.
III stage: 4th-6th years –
study of clinical sciences with Russian as the language of instruction
(using English when it is necessary) along with learning Russian in the
volume corresponding with appropriate academic programs for an
international institute of medical education.
Institute of Nursing
 The year of foundation — 2006.
Annual enrollment in the pat-time course is 50
students and 10 students on a commercial basis and financed by the state
respectively. The enrollment in the Department of secondary medical and
pharmaceutical education is 10 students in “Nursing”, financed by the
state, 10 students in “Pharmacy”, financed by the state,  20 students in “Dentistry” on a commercial basis.
Duration of training in the Department of
Advanced Nursing: 5 years in the part-time program, 4 years in the
full-time program. Graduates are qualified as «Managers» upon graduation.
Duration of training in the Department of
secondary medical and pharmaceutical education, sisters of mercy: 2 years
and 10 months. Graduates are qualified as “Pharmacists”, “Nurses”,
“Dental mechanics” upon graduation.
Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education
 The year of foundation — 1983.
The Institute supports advancement of
professional skills in different medical areas and retraining of medical
doctors in 61 specialties. For the last 5 years
30 thousand physicians of different specialties have been trained in the
Institute. There are 7 state-financed departments, 8 departments of mixed
financing, 13 courses at students’ departments in the Institute. The
teaching staff of the Institute includes 65 Doctors of Medical Science.
The largest multi-field medical and healthcare establishments of Voronezh
and Lipetsk  serve as clinical bases for the Institute’s
Departments and courses. Among them there are the Regional Clinical
Hospital, the Regional Pediatric Clinical Hospital, the City Emergency
Hospital, the Lipetsk Regional Multi-field Clinical Hospital No1, the
Basic M. Gorky Clinical Health Center, the Regional Clinical and
Diagnostic Healthcare Center, institutions for health and epidemic
management, the Regional Antituberculous Dispensary, and the Clinical
Hospital of South-Eastern Railways.
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