General Medicine
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31.05.01 In English
Level of education Specialist
Type of instruction Full-time
Duration 6 years
Programme description
- The specialist's programme 'General Medicine' includes a wide range of disciplines to train medical doctors. Particular attention is paid to the teaching of fundamental disciplines in junior courses, which develops wide scientific horizons among students. Lecturers from different faculties of the University are involved in the training process. In senior years, students study clinical disciplines. To master their professional skills, students have practical training in: a well-equipped simulation centre of St Petersburg University; and leading medical institutions and healthcare centres. Practical training is the key component in the training of healthcare personnel. As part of their practical classes and summer internships, students therefore participate in the diagnosis of diseases and the treatment of patients under the supervision of experienced professionals. Within the framework of the 'General Medicine' programme, clinical practice is combined with research activities under the supervision of the academic staff of St Petersburg University.
- The programme 'General Medicine' is unique in that it provides students with an opportunity to develop their professional skills set of a doctor and approaches to advanced scientific research. Graduates of the programme are ready to use cutting-edge methods and technologies, including digital ones, based on the latest scientific achievements in the field of medicine.
- The programme is though in Russian and English, or fully in English.
Main courses
- Introduction into Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
- Exercise Therapy and Medical Supervision
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Medical Genetics
- Medical Embryology
- Microbiology, Virology, Immunology
- Neurology and Neurosurgery
- General Immunology
- General Oncology
- General Surgery
- Anatomic Pathology
- Topographical Anatomy and Operative Surgery
- Academic Course in Surgery
- Pharmacology
- Epidemiology
Our advantages
- Particular attention is paid to the teaching of fundamental disciplines, which develops wide scientific horizons among students. A lengthy English course makes it possible for students to achieve good command of the language. Practical knowledge is taught in accordance with international standards and national traditions of higher medical education. It is reinforced during annual summer internships in the leading medical institutions of the city.
- Features of the academic programme ‘General Medicine’ make it possible to develop the professional competencies of medical doctors, and their approach to carrying out research at a high level. They are also ready to use advanced methods and technologies, including digital ones based on the cutting-edge scientific achievements in medicine.
- Professional occupations of our graduates: clinical practise (healthcare delivery in clinical and hospital settings), healthcare administration (organizational management in healthcare systems and hospital settings), pedagogical activity (professional teaching and scientific research).
- The programme provides training under individual educational paths through elective and online courses.
- The requirements for material, technical, educational, methodological and other conditions for the implementation of the academic programme are met by all the resources of SPbU under the rules established by the University and the resources of partner organisations.
- The academic programme is also implemented for physically challenged students taking into account their special needs, individual capabilities and health condition.
- The program is implemented with the support of the Academic Programme Council.
- Graduates of the specialist’s programmes speak English at a level of English proficiency comparable to the B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
- The academic programme has been designed taking into account professional standards and the views of employers on the correlation of graduates' competencies and job functions in their professional activities.
Career opportunities
Types of professional activity: medical activities (activities in the field of healthcare, and healthcare institutions); organisational and managerial activities (activities in the field of healthcare, and healthcare institutions); and teaching activities (professional training, research activities)
Practices at
- After the first year: Biological practice
- After the second year: Ward nurse assistant
- After the third year: Treatment room nurse assistant
- After the fourth year: Physician’s assistant in hospital
- After the fifth year: Outpatient physician assistant
Clinical placement sites
- D O Ott Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
- National Medical Research Centre of Cardiology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
- Petrov National Medicine Research Centre of Oncology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
- I I Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine
- Institute of Toxicology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
- Clinic of Rehabilitation Medicine at St Petersburg University
- Nikiforov’s All-Russian Centre for Emergency and Radiation Medicine
- Bekhterev Psychoneurological Institute
- Pokrovskaya Municipal Hospital
- City Multifield Hospital No 2
- City Hospital of the Holy Martyr Elizabeth
- City Hospital of St Great Martyr George
- City Hospital No 26
- City Tuberculosis Hospital No 2
- S P Botkin Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital No 30
- City Hospital No 31
- Clinical Hospital with Outpatient Hospital of the Medical Association of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Sokolov Clinical Hospital No 122 of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency of the Russian Federation
- Children's City Hospital No 2 of Saint Mary Magdalene
- City Psychoneurological Clinic No 7 (with an in-patient hospital)
- City Psychiatric Hospital No 4
- City Psychiatric Hospital No 1
- Maternity Hospital No 1
- Women’s Clinic No 16
- City Rheumatology Centre
- OOO Dental Centre ‘Dzhulio’
- Alexandrovskaya City Hospital No 17
- St Petersburg City Oncology Clinic
- St Petersburg State Budgetary Healthcare Institution ‘City Hospital No 40’
Professions
Types of professional activity:
- medical activities in the field of healthcare, and healthcare institutions;
- organisational and managerial activities – activities in the field of healthcare, and healthcare institutions;
- teaching activities – higher education, vocational training
- research activities – research and development in the field of natural sciences
The academic programme is designed to train a medical doctor who is: competitive in the domestic and international labour markets; and focused on continuous medical education and digital healthcare.
- Petrov National Medicine Research Centre of Oncology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
- I I Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine
- Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
- Institute of Toxicology of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency of the Russian Federation
- Sokolov Clinical Hospital No 122 of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency of the Russian Federation
- Clinic of Rehabilitation Medicine at St Petersburg University
- Nikiforov’s All-Russian Centre for Emergency and Radiation Medicine
- St Petersburg Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute
- S P Botkin Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital No 30
- D O Ott Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
- Almazov National Medical Research Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation