Vladivóstok State Medical University (Владивосто́кский госуда́рственный медици́нский университе́т) is a university

University

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 in Vladivostok

Vladivostok

The city is located in the southern extremity of Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, which is about 30 km long and approximately 12 km wide.The highest point is Mount Kholodilnik, the height of which is 257 m...

 in the Far East of Russia

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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 (VSMI). Institute was reorganized into the University in 1995.

Faculties of the Vladivostok State Medical University:

• The Medical Faculty
• The Military Faculty (disband at 2008)
• The Military Training Center
• The Pediatric Faculty
• The Faculty of Medical Prophylactic and Medical Biochemistry

Among the medical Universities of the Far East VSMU - the only institution that trains doctors at Faculty Medical Prophylactic , providing preventive measures for healthy living of the population of Khabarovsk, Primorsky and Kamchatka Territories, Amur, Sakhalin and Magadan regions, the Republic of Sakha and Chukotka.

• The Pharmaceutical Faculty
• The Stomatological (dental) Faculty
• The Higher Nursing Edication and Social Work Faculty
• The Clinical Psychology Faculty
• The Continuous Medical Edication
• The Postgraduate and Further Degree Studies
• Pre-University Training

VSMU today

Today VSMU - is a various scientific and educational institution that 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, that make possible to obtain any medical profession. Sufficiently extensive links established with the universities of China, Japan, South Korea and the U.S.A., allow to take preparing courses for students and teachers that enrich the learning process and intensify the research activities of the university.

External links

• Vladivostok State Medical University official website