Pacific State Medical University

Pacific State Medical University

Тихоокеанский государственный медицинский университет
Motto	Debes, Ergo Potes(You Must, so you Can)
Established	1958
Rector	Valentin Shumatov (in Russian)
Academic staff	1000
Students	15,000+
Address	690990, Ostryakov Avenue, 2 , Vladivostok , Russia 43°7′51″N131°54′7″E / 43.13083°N 131.90194°E / 43.13083; 131.90194
Website	http://www.tgmu.ru/

Pacific State Medical University (Russian: Тихоокеанский государственный медицинский университет), formerly known as VSMU (Vladivostok State Medical University) is a medicaluniversity in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.

History

At the beginning, since 1956 VSMU was the Medical Faculty of the Far Eastern State University, but in 2 years it became Vladivostok State Medical Institute (VSMU). The first postgraduate program was opened in 1961 in the Department of Biochemistry. The fifth scientific conference of VSMI was held in 1965.^[1] In 1968, the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) Board authorized VSMI to form a dissertation council for the defense of candidate dissertations in the specialities of Anatomy, Histology, Nervous diseases, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Therapy and Surgery.

In 1995 the institute received university status. The university received its state accreditation certificate as the Federal State Institution "Vladivostok State Medical University" (VSMU). Since 2010, the institution has had the organizational and legal form of the State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Vladivostok State Medical University" of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation (GBOU VPO VSMU).^[2] On January 1, 2013, in accordance with an order signed by Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, the university was renamed the State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Pacific State Medical University" of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (GBOU VPO TSMU).^[3]

Structure

The university includes 10 faculties and 67 departments, employing 85 doctors and 285 candidates of science. The university held an internship, residency, graduate school, the system of pre-university training and post-graduate special education improving system.

Faculties of the Pacific State Medical University:

• The Medical Faculty
• The Military Faculty
• The Military Training Center
• The Pediatric Faculty
• The Faculty of Pharmacy
• The Faculty of Medical Prophylactic and Medical Biochemistry
• The Pharmaceutical Faculty
• The Stomatological (dental) Faculty
• The Higher Nursing Education and Social Work Faculty
• The Clinical Psychology Faculty
• The Continuous Medical Education
• The Postgraduate and Further Degree Studies
• Pre-University Training

References

1. 5-я научная конференция ВГМИ:Сборник тезисов. — ВГМИ, 1965.
2. Приказ № 1152 Об утверждении устава государственного образовательного учреждения высшего профессионального образования «Владивостокский государственный медицинский университет» Министерства здравоохранения и социального развития Российской Федерации в новой редакции. Минздравсоцразвития РФ. 2010-12-22.
3. Приказ О внесении изменений в устав государственного бюджетного образовательного учреждения высшего профессионального образования "Владивостокский государственный медицинский университет" Министерства здравоохранения РФ. — № 913. — Минздрав РФ, 15.11.2012.

• Motavkin, P A (2007). "[The 50-th anniversary of the Histology Department of the Vladivostok Medical University]". Morfologiia. 132 (6): 88–92. PMID 18504876.
• Motavkin P., Polushin O. (2008). From the faculty to the University.50th Anniversary of the Vladivostok State Medical University. Vladivostok: Medicine DV. ISBN 978-5-98301-025-3.

External links

• Pacific State Medical University official website(in Russian)