Description of the Institute
The Medical Institute of the Russian People's Friendship University trains medical and pharmaceutical workers in all major specialties.
Students undergo practical training and clinical training in more than 160 public and private clinics. Teaching how to treat patients, modern methods of diagnosis, professional communication, the institute carries out the training of highly qualified doctors of international level.
The institute trains more than 6 500 students, residents and post-graduate students under the supervision of 690 teachers (including 162 doctors of sciences and 293 candidates of science). There are 12 dissertation councils on medical and biological sciences and 1 dissertation council on pharmaceutical sciences.
The Medical Institute is a member of the International Society for Telemedicine and Electronic Health. The Department of Telemedicine and Health Informatization has been established at the Faculty for Advanced Training of Medical Workers, which trains specialists in telemedicine, an innovative tool for creating and maintaining modern healthcare systems. The employees are members of the Expert Council of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation on the use of information and communication technologies in the healthcare sphere, they were the initiators and participants in the creation of the medical part of the Unified State Information System. Thanks to the staff of the department, advanced domestic developments, surpassing the world standards and operating in many countries of the world, providing access to medical services, optimizing the use of resources, increasing the efficiency of providing medical services and improving their quality, have been launched on the market.
The main goal of the institute is the qualitative education of medical workers, innovative scientific activity and the introduction of its results in practical health care and education, the formation of high morality of students.
International partner universities:
- Azerbaijan Medical University (Azerbaijan),
- Medical Faculty of the University of Semmelweiss (Hungary),
- Clinic of Traumatology and Orthopedics "Central Clinic of Johannes Vezling" of the Academic Hospital of the Medical University of Hanover (Germany),
- Jordan University of Science and Technology (Jordan),
- Kazakh National Medical University after Asdendiyarov (Kazakhstan),
- University of Al Nilein (Sudan),
- The Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (India),
- Harbin Medical University (China),
- Medical University Won Gwang (South Korea),
- Curie Institute (France),
- Heidelberg University (Germany),
- Regensburg University (Germany),
- Egyptian-Russian University (Egypt)
Subdivisions of the Medical Institute
- Faculty of professional development of medical workers
- Center for simulation training
- Clinical and diagnostic center
- Center for the Study of the Liver
- Ophthalmic Center
- Center for Dental and Oral and Maxillofacial Implantology
- Scientific and educational laboratory "Innovations in medicine"
Center for simulation training
The Center for Simulation Training (CSO) provides classes for all students starting from the 2nd year. Preparations are being made for accreditation in the fields of "Medicine", "Stomatology", "Pharmacy", and «Nursing". The area of the center is about 2,400 sq.m. This is 41 specially equipped audiences. The RUDN simulator center occupies 3 floors.
The goal is to practice skills in "no stress" conditions without constant monitoring of the mentor, the work of the clinic without risk for the patient. Simulation technologies create conditions that are as close to real as possible:
- pharmacists participate in the production of drugs; take products from forwarders, release medicines and many others;
- dentists examine the oral cavity, conduct sealing and prosthetics, perform surgical operations and many others;
- students specializing in "Medicine" conduct a survey of patients, make diagnoses, prescribe courses of treatment, demonstrate the skills of therapy and surgery.
- students of the direction "Nursing" show the ability to help patients, doctors, colleagues. The center checks the skills of patient care, assisting doctors in operations and during the rehabilitation period.
The RUDN simulator training center has simulators for injections, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, transthoracic echocardiography, laparoscopic and gynecological simulators, mannequins for improving patient care skills, setting gastrointestinal probes, and dental simulators. The center conducts training and control of students' knowledge and skills, as well as the preparation of the best students for participation in professional international Olympiads.
Trainings are conducted in 14 specialties (38 modules and 4 programs):
- Internal diseases;
- Nursing;
- Urgent care;
- Anesthesiology and resuscitation;
- Surgery;
- Endoscopy;
- Obstetrics and gynecology;
- Urology;
- Traumatology;
- Pediatrics and neonatology;
- Dentistry;
- X-ray endovascular diagnostics and treatment;
- Functional research methods;
- Team training.
The curriculum of the RUDN simulator training center:
- Care for patients with a therapeutic profile;
- Care for patients with surgical profile;
- Assistant to junior medical staff;
- Assistant to the ward nurses;
- Assistant to a procedural nurse;
- Assistant to the doctor;
- Preparation for OSEC (Objective structured clinical examination).
- DPO Program: The cycle of professional retraining "Organization of Nursing". The duration is 252 academic hours.
Faculty of advanced training of medical workers
The Faculty of Advanced Training of Medical Workers (FPK MP) implements more than 1100 programs of professional development and professional retraining for doctors, nurses, and pharmacists.We are studying in clinical residency, internship, postgraduate and doctoral studies. In the educational process, there are 49 departments and a scientific and educational center, 330 teachers (including 132 doctors of science and 28 candidates of science). The classes are conducted by the world's leading leaders in medical science and public health. The faculty annually trains more than 10,000 students in 67 specialties of higher education and 29 secondary education specialties. The faculty develops new forms of education - remote, interactive and simulation. These are key areas that can effectively convey to the listener educational materials and improve the quality of the educational process.
The faculty of advanced training of medical workers is an active participant in the process of Continuing Medical Education.
Scientific and educational laboratory "Innovations in medicine"
On the basis of telemedicine and simulation technologies, the scientific and educational laboratory "Innovations in Medicine" was created. The laboratory was created to conduct research and provide a practical component of the educational process. The main tasks of the scientific laboratory:
- introduction and development of information and telecommunication technologies in medicine
- improving the quality of teaching students, clinical residents, graduate students using modern information and communication technologies;
- providing open access to educational information resources;
- development and implementation of programs for continuous medical and pharmaceutical education;
- organization of cooperation with universities and scientific centers in the use of information and telecommunication technologies in medical and pharmaceutical education.
- conducting scientific and training activities to improve the efficiency and quality of medical and pharmaceutical education.