# Dental Medicine

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31.05.03 
*In English*

Level of education Specialist

Type of instruction Full-time

Duration 5 years

Programme description

The specialist’s programme 'Dental Medicine' is aimed at: developing basic and fundamental medical knowledge; comprehensive professional training; and developing medical judgement of a dentist who will be able to successfully apply cutting-edge methods of preventing dental diseases based on the knowledge of the main mechanisms of their occurrence and course. Graduates of the programme will also be capable of: carrying out diagnostic and treatment activities and rehabilitation measures to preserve the life and health of patients; quickly adapting to the emergence of innovative methods of diagnosis and treatment; and using state-of-the-art materials, methods and technologies, including digital ones, based on the latest scientific achievements in the field of dentistry and medicine.

The programme is taught in Russian/English or English.

Main courses

**Courses in Dental Medicine**

- Functional Anatomy of the Teeth.  Odontomodelling
- Introduction to Dental Diseases
- Materials Science
- Preventive Care and Dental Public Health
- Paediatric Dentistry
- Therapeutic Dentistry
- Dental Surgery. Military Maxillofacial Surgery. Exercise Therapy. Rehabilitology
- Prosthetic Dentistry, and others

**Fundamental and General Medicine Courses**

- Biology
- Human Anatomy. Head and Neck Anatomy
- Latin and Basic Medical Terminology
- Normal Physiology. Physiology of the Maxillofacial Area
- Microscopic Anatomy, Cytology, Embryology.  Oral Microscopic Anatomy
- Biochemistry.  Oral Biochemistry
- Microbiology, Virology, Immunology. Oral Microbiology, and many others

Our advantages

- The programme provides training under individual educational paths through elective and online courses.
- Requirements for material, technical, educational, methodological and other conditions for the implementation of the academic programme are provided by: all the University resources, following the procedure established at SPbU; and the resources of partner organisations.
- The academic programme is also suitable for students with disabilities as it takes into account the particularities of their psycho-physical development, individual capacities and state of health.
- The programme is implemented with the help of the Council of the academic programme.
- Graduates of the specialist’s programmes speak English at a level of 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

After being initially certified, graduates are ready to work in state and commercial dental organisations. Graduates can continue their studies in doctoral or clinical residency programmes to receive in-depth knowledge in the chosen medical profession.

**Professions**

The programme trains dentists equipped with a system of professional and universal cultural competencies. Graduates of the programme are: ready to independently carry out professional activity in the provision of dental care to the population; well-versed in the issues of organisation and economics of healthcare, insurance medicine and medical psychology; competitive in the national and international labour markets; and focused on continuous medical education and digital healthcare.

Teaching staff

- Natalia Sokolovich, Doctor of Science (Medicine), Head of the Department of Dentistry, Professor in the Department of Dentistry at the Institute of Medicine at St Petersburg University, Chairperson of the Dissertation Council of St Petersburg University in the main field of study 3.1.7 ‘Dental Medicine’; Member of the Council of the St Petersburg Dental Association; Member of the Profile Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation for the main field of study ‘Paediatric Dentistry’
- Dmitrii Maday, Doctor of Science (Medicine), Professor, Honoured Physician of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Surgical Dentistry, Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Surgical Dentistry at the Institute of Medicine at St Petersburg University; Member of the Dissertation Council — 07.2.002.05 (in the following main fields of study: 3.1.3. Otorhinolaryngology; 3.1.5. Ophthalmology; and 3.1.7. Dental Medicine)
- Lyudmila Ermolaeva, Doctor of Science (Medicine), Head of the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry, Professor in the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry at the Institute of Medicine at St Petersburg University, Chief Freelance Specialist for the Northwestern Federal District of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Member of the Profile Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation for Dentistry
- Yurii Golinskiy, Candidate of Science (Medicine), Head of the Department of Orthopaedic Dentistry at the Institute of Medicine at St Petersburg University; Chief Medical Officer of St Petersburg State Budgetary Healthcare Institution ‘Dental Outpatient Hospital No 20’; Member of the Coordinating Council on Dentistry under the St Petersburg Health Committee; expert in the speciality ‘Prosthetic Dentistry’; Vice-President of the St Petersburg Dental Association; and Member of the Council of the Russian Dental Association
- Alexander Suvorov, Doctor of Science (Medicine), Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Fundamental Medicine and Medical Technologies at the Institute of Medicine at St Petersburg University; Head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology at the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution ’Institute of Experimental Medicine’; President of the 18th International Symposium on Gnotobiology; Member of the St Petersburg Society of Microbiologists; International Advisor to the Lancefield International Symposia on Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases; Member of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID); Member of the International Society for Microbial Ecology and Disease (SOMED)

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