Kemerovo State Medical Academy: faculty and student feedback

For applicants living in Kemerovo, there are a lot of options for continuing education after graduation - colleges and universities of technical, economic, legal, agricultural, medical profiles. Out of a huge number of educational institutions, a fairly large number of students choose the Kemerovo Medical Academy, which already has a university status for almost a year. Let's take a closer look at this university, its faculties and the feedback of students.

Faculties in the educational institution

Among several large structural units is the Kemerovo State Medical Academy. The faculties that are part of the university and are engaged in teaching students under the bachelor's and specialist programs are listed below:

• Therapeutic;
• Higher nursing education;
• pediatric;
• pharmaceutical;
• Dental;
• Mediko-preventive.

Medical Faculty

The history of this structural unit began in 1956. In early September, 250 students were accepted for training, which in the future were to become doctors. From that moment, the gradual development of the structural unit began. The first stage was connected with the opening of the evening department for people with secondary professional medical education. The second stage was marked by the opening of new departments.

The modern faculty is a large structural unit, which is owned by the Kemerovo State Medical Academy, which has recently become a university. Applicants coming here, waiting for a difficult study. At junior courses students study disciplines, which can be divided into 2 groups:

• Humanitarian, social and economic;
• Mathematical and natural sciences.

At senior courses, students in the school begin to teach professional disciplines related to medical treatment. These include internal diseases, pediatrics, obstetrics and genetics, skin diseases, exercise therapy, general surgery, resuscitation, etc. At the end of the faculty, graduates are given the qualification of a doctor.

Faculty of Higher Nursing Education

One of the youngest structural units in the educational institution is the faculty of higher nursing education. He started his work in 2001. From the very beginning, nurses were trained in the correspondence department. This form of training is also used now. Kemerovo State Medical Academy (University) enlists in the nursing of persons with secondary vocational education.

What is the difference between nurses, who are graduates of secondary vocational institutions, from nurses with higher education? The last specialists undergo in-depth training. Higher education not only makes it possible to get good knowledge, but also contributes to the further establishment of equal-partner relations with doctors, which allows to achieve a better effect in the treatment of sick people.

Pediatric Faculty

The pediatric faculty, which is currently part of the university, was opened in 1967. Over the period of his existence, he released many specialists. Some graduates now work at the departments of the faculty, are engaged in teaching students who have decided to devote their lives to pediatrics, to the treatment of children.

Study at the pediatric faculty is interesting. KemGMA - Kemerovo State Medical Academy (University) - organizes teaching of subjects subject to the profile of the structural unit. Students study the anatomical and physiological characteristics of the child's organism, pathological processes. The faculty also has an active social life. The students take part in various charitable actions, help children who do not have parents.

Pharmaceutical Faculty

In the 70s, existing and newly opened pharmacies in the Kemerovo region began to feel a shortage of highly skilled pharmaceutical specialists. To solve this problem, the Kemerovo State Medical Institute opened a special faculty. In the first set, there were 100 people.

The modern pharmaceutical faculty is in demand among the entrants. In this structural unit, students are introduced to medicines, the features of their manufacture. After graduation from the pharmaceutical faculty, graduates can continue their studies. Kemerovo State Medical Academy (KemGMA, Kemerovo) offers to enter an internship for one of three educational programs:

1. "Economics of Pharmacy and Management." Thanks to this educational program you can become a pharmacist-organizer.
2. "Pharmaceutical Chemistry". If you continue training in this direction, you can become a technologist.
3. "Pharmaceutical pharmacognosy and chemistry". Choosing this educational program, interns are going to be in the future to be pharmaceutical pharmacists.

Dental Faculty

The Kemerovo State Medical Academy has a dental faculty, which has been operating since 1958. The first set was taken by 100 people. Diplomas they were received in 1963 with the assignment of a doctor's qualification. Some of the young and talented specialists remained working at the faculty as teachers.

About 350 students study in the modern structural subdivision. From the first year they begin to study the disciplines related to dentistry. First, students are taught the anatomy of the head and neck, the physiology of the maxillofacial region. At the senior courses, students learn the diseases of the oral cavity, the ways of their treatment and the elimination of existing defects. Practical skills are first practiced on phantoms and models, and later - in dental hospitals and clinics.

Faculty of Medicine and Prevention

In 1963, the structure of a higher educational institution was established sanitary-hygienic faculty. In 1990, it was renamed. As a result, the Faculty of Medicine and Prophylaxis appeared. The formation of such a structural unit was caused by the need to train specialists capable of primary prevention of various diseases.

Currently, the medical-prophylactic faculty trains several hundred students. His tasks in the Kemerovo State Medical Academy were defined in the training of students for the following activities:

• Organization and provision of sanitary-anti-epidemic and medical-preventive care;
• Organization and participation in anti-epidemic, hygienic and preventive measures;
• Addressing the issues of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of residents.

Checkpoints and reviews

To assess your chances of admission, you can analyze passing scores for any year. Here, for example, the statistics that the Kemerovo State Medical Academy has preserved (a passing grade of 2015 on a budget):

• Medical business - 226;
• Pediatrics -216;
• Stomatology - 242;
• Medical and preventive care - 192;
• Pharmacy - 204.

For admission on a fee basis, no less than 138 points were required at the medical-preventive faculty, at least 140 points in the pharmaceutical and pediatric departments, at least 150 points in the medical and dental departments.

As for the opinions of students about the university, it is worth noting that the Kemerovo State Medical Academy reviews have always been positive. A highly qualified teaching staff interestingly tells the lecture material. At the same time, the demand for students is very high. The students have to learn a lot of new information for them, study additional books. Thus, the Kemerovo State Medical Academy (university) is a worthy educational institution. It produces well-trained specialists.