Saint Petersburg State Medical Academy

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St. Petersburg State Medical Academy

Established:	1907
Type:	Public University
Rector:	A. V. Shabrov
Staff:	750 (112 DSc, 433 PhD, 82 Prof, and 167 AProf)
Location:	St. Petersburg, Russia
Campus:	35 km²
Website:	www.mechnik.spb.ru

The St. Petersburg I. I. Mechnikov State Medical Academy (SPSMA) is a public university located in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. The SPSMA is one of the oldest and largest Russian Higher Medical Schools. Over its 100 years of history, the Academy remains a leading institution of Russia in medicine and training specialists in preventive and clinical medicine.

The SPSMA has a long and proud tradition of educating Russian and international students. More than 35,000 physicians graduated from the Academy. Among the total student population of over 5,000, the Academy has around 1,000 international students from more than 30 countries worldwide.

1 History
- 1.1 Name Changes
2 Academics
3 Research
4 Museums
5 Recognitions

[edit] History

The SPSMA was established in 1907 under the direction of academician Vladimir Bekhterev and developed by the Russian Government through the Ministry of Health on the basis of the laws of Russian Federation.

[edit] Name Changes

1907-1920 - Medical Faculty of PsychoNeurological Institute
1920-1936 - Second Leningrad Medical Institute
1936-1946 - The Institute united with a city hospital and named after Nobel Laureate Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
1946-1994 - Leningrad Medical Institute of Sanitary and Hygiene by the order of the Board of Ministers of the USSR (N 14077 from 22.12.1946)
1994-1995 - St. Petersburg State Medical Academy (WHO Directory, 7 ed., page 329)
1995-Present - The SPSMA was named after the great Russian scientist I. I. Mechnikov (order N 1307-p, dated 22.12.1995)

[edit] Academics

The SPSMA trains specialists in medicine of more that 60 specialties. The goal of the Academy is to enable students to apply their knowledge of the fundamentals in an independent consideration of patient's condition, diagnostic options, and therapeutic interventions.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Research

Research performed in the Academy coincided with the fields in which the specialists are trained and includes the following:

Development of disease prevention methods by studiing the influences of different environmental factors on human health as well as effects of different lifestyles.
Development of concepts which could improve human adaptation capability to substances of syntetic and natural origin and the ways to correct it.
Study of pathogenesis, prophylaxis, treatment strategies and prognosis for cardiovascular diseases, most common gastrointestinal tract pathologies, locomotion system abnormalities, hepatic and renal insuffiency.
Development of new methods for plastic, vascular, bile duct and bone surgery, and improvements in laser and magnetic diagnostics and therapy.
Study of biochemical changes in the body, reliable laboratory and microbiology diagnostics methods, morphological and epidemiological peculiarities of viral hepatitis, its outcome and prevention.
Development of methods to prevent and treat diseases which are caused by conventional pathogenic micro organisms.
The clinical hospitals of our Academy act as a base for many leading multinational companies in the field of research and invention of new methods of treatment and drugs.

[edit] Museums

There are 6 study museums:

3 - at the Department of Anatomy (Anatomy Museum),
1 - at the Department of Public Health (Museum of History of Academy),
1 - at the Department of Forensic Medicine (Forensic Medicine Museum), and
1 - at the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases (Dermatology Museum).

There is a rich museum of Forensic Medicine which embraces all branches in medico-legal pathologies. Exhibition of the museum are widely used in the education process. Research on corpses is carried out in the Bureau of Medico-Legal Examination of Saint Petersburg - the largest establishment of its type in Russia.

[edit] Recognitions

The Academy is recognized by the WHO, ECFMG Commission of the USA, and various medical councils of the UK, Australia, India, Sri-Lanka, Ireland, Sweden, and other European nations.

The Academy is included in the official list of: