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Kazan State Medical University is a multi-functional and mutilevel State Institution of higher learning in medicine. It is situated in Kazan which is the Capital of the Tatarstan Republic, a city in central European Russia which lies on the confluence of the Volgo and Kazanka Rivers. The university was founded in the year 1804 by a Royal Command from Emperor Alexander I. It commenced as the Faculty of Medicine of the Kazan University and was separated from the university in the year 1930 to be named as the Kazan State Medical Institute. It was given the status of a university in the year 1994. Clinical training is provided to its students in the faculties of Paediatrics, General Medicine and Dentistry through 54 medical institutions comprising hospitals, maternity homes, special diagnostic centers, out patient units and polyclinics, which among themselves have 8600 beds and 98 Dental Chairs. Pharmaceutical training is provided through a system of 65 pharmacies in the Tatarstan Republic, 18 pharmacies in Chyvachia and some commerical pharmaceutical units. The Post Graduate faculty, which was started in the year 1994, admits 100 students every year in 35 different specialities. The training includes work in class as well as independent work with patients under the supervision of Doctors and Professors. The course also includes the study of interdisciplinary subjects and electives, the choice of which depends on the main specialization.
Surgical Departments of the university are the leaders of Russian medicine in the field of laser surgery and endosurgery. The Dental school of the university is well known for developing new constructions of dentures, implants and orthopaedic materials. The Regional Centre of Cardiovascular Surgery is one of the Departments of the university. The Library of the university has more than one million books of scientific and teaching literature. It subscribes to 354 foreign and 254 Russian scientific medical journals. Members of the staff participate in the development of six international programs. In the last five years, over 200 reports have been presented at International conferences and symposiums. The university is developing academic contacts with scientists in USA, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic and France. Professors from Yale University visit Kazan State Medical University each year to give lectures on "Evidence based Medicine". Students of the university participate in different festivals and have their own Newspaper "Kazan Medical Student:. The university has two major periodical publications namely "Neurology Newsletter" and "Kazan Medical Journal". The climate in Kazan is temperate, with warm sunny summers and snowy winters with mild frost. Students can participate in year round recreation, including football, tennis, basketball and swimming in summer, or skiing and skating in winter. During the holidays, the students can relax in the camp ""Medic" in the woods on the bank of the Volga River. |
