First Moscow State Medical University (officially I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, informally Sechenov University); Russian: Первый Московский государственный медицинский университет имени И. М. Сеченова) is the oldest medical university in Russia, located in Moscow.[5][6]
The university was founded in 1758 as medical faculty of Imperial Moscow University as the first medical school in Russia.[6] The institution separated from the Moscow State University and became independent in 1930. The university was renamed after Russian physiologist, Ivan Sechenov, in 1955. It was known as I.M. Sechenov First Moscow Institute of Medicine until 1990, and I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy from 1990 to 2010.[5] MSMU is located at Devichye Pole, a medical campus, in Moscow.[6]
The head of First Moscow State Medical University, Petr Vitalievich Glybochko (Глыбочко, Пётр Витальевич signed a letter of support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[7]
History
Coin of the Bank of Russia (silver, 3 rubles, reverse), series "Science", 250th anniversary of the Moscow Sechenov Medical Academy. Monument to Ivan Sechenov on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street in Moscow
The university was inaugurated as the Imperial Moscow University (Moscow State University since 1917) in 1755. It is named after Ivan Sechenov, a doctoral graduate of Moscow Imperial, who is known as the "father of Russian physiology." The institution became independent in 1930 and acquired full university status in 2010.[6] It celebrated its 260th anniversary in 2018.[5] The academy is a center for training, certification and further education for medical staff and pharmacists.[citation needed]
Faculties
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Pediatrics
Faculty of Preventive Medicine
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Postgraduate Professional Training of Physicians
Preparatory Department for International Applicants
Grigori Gorin (Grigori Israilevich Ofshtein) - playwright and writer
Sergei Korsakoff[5] — neuropsychiatrist; europsychiatrist of the 19th century, known for his studies on the effects of alcoholism on the nervous system (Korsakoff syndrome) and introduction of the concept of paranoia
Nikolay Pirogov[5] — scientist, medical doctor, inventor, pedagogue and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; considered to be the founder of field surgery and was one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic
Rafiq Tağı — Azerbaijani short-story writer and journalist, graduated in cardiology
Amiran Revishvili — Georgian cardiac surgeon and electrophysiologist, president of Pan-Russian Scientific Society of Clinical Electrophysiology, Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing
Boris Yegorov — physician-astronaut who became the first physician to make a space flight
References
^ a b"I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University Ranking 2022: Latest National and World Ranking 2022, 2021 & 2020". studyabroad.shiksha.com.
^ a bS.L.U, Course Guru. "All 69 Universities in Moscow | Rankings & Reviews 2022". UniversityGuru.
^ a b"Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University". Usnews.com. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
^"QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia". Retrieved 15 January 2023.
^ a b c d e f g h i"The University history". sechenov.ru. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
^ a b c dМосковский государственный медицинский университет им И.М. Сеченова. RIA Novosti (in Russian). 18 November 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
^"Обращение Российского Союза ректоров 04.03.2022". Российский Союз Ректоров. March 4, 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-03-07.
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