Medical Odessa University: the cost of education, faculties, passing grade and reviews

One of the oldest medical universities in the south of Ukraine is the medical Odessa University. It was opened only in 1900 as a faculty, today it has the most up-to-date material and technical base for medical diagnostic, educational and scientific work. The educational process and practice are constantly introducing new achievements in medical science, including endoscopic, transplant, laparoscopic technologies and others.

History of University

Medical University of Odessa It leads its history from the opening of the faculty of the same name on the basis of Novorossiysk University. One of the supporters of his foundation was Nikolai Pirogov, a well-known surgeon, scientist and natural scientist. After the reorganization in 1920, the faculty grew into a medical academy renamed into a medical institute two years later . The University acquired the university status in 1994. Then he received the name Odessa State Medical University. This innovation has not ended.

The university has something to be proud of for its more than a century of existence. International recognition, availability of world-class specialists, participation in the most important state programs, prospects for further development - all this became the basis for signing the Decree of the President of Ukraine on awarding the educational institution in August 2010 the status of national. The university was renamed the Odessa National Medical University.

Learning process

The educational process is adapted to the Bologna system and includes a two-phase education. It implies an independent system of expert evaluation of students' knowledge and skills, testing, credit-modular system, distance learning method and student mobility.

The material and technical base of the educational institution includes 6 faculties, 62 departments, 3 research institutes, 3 university clinics and 27 regional treatment and diagnostic centers.

Training is conducted by 840 teachers. Two academicians, 47 members of specialized scientific councils, 3 honored researchers, 4 corresponding members of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, 21 honored workers of science and technology, 19 honored doctors of Ukraine, 7 laureates of prestigious state and international prizes make up the basis of the scientific-teaching staff of the university.

About 6000 students study at the faculties of the university, among them more than 1000 - from 57 foreign countries. Teaching is conducted in three languages: Ukrainian, Russian and English. The university administration constantly invites leading experts of world medicine from foreign countries for academic work, holding open lectures. In the university you can also get a post-graduate education.

Medical Odessa University is considered the leading educational medical institution in Ukraine, which constantly introduces the newest technologies of educational, scientific and medical business.

The university is headed by the famous academician of NASU Valery Zaporozhan, who has a number of other academic degrees and degrees.

Faculties of the University

Training of specialists at the level of world standards, development of scientific research, improvement of the healthcare system in the region is carried out thanks to the excellent infrastructure and material and technical base that the Odessa Medical University has. Faculties on the basis of the university conduct training of future medical workers at the stages of undergraduate and postgraduate education (in internship, magistracy). It:

• Medical faculties (medical business, preventive medicine, pediatrics).
• Stomatological.
• Pharmaceutical.
• International.
• Faculty of Postgraduate Education.
• Medical College.

At the university, the scientific and pedagogical schools that have received world fame continue to operate successfully. This obstetric-gynecological, anesthesiological, neurological, pediatric, biochemical, ophthalmologic, immunological, sanitary-hygienic, radiographic, therapeutic, pharmacological, physiological, surgical scientific schools. The origins of the latter were such coryphaeus surgery of the XIX century, as Pirogov MI and Sklifosovsky MV

Medical Faculties

Originally, the Faculty of Medicine was divided into medical and pediatric. Currently, a number of broader areas are offered, which is offered by the Odessa National Medical University. The faculties of medicine provide for training in the following specialties:

• "Healing", "
• "Medico-prophylactic case"
• "Pediatrics".

At these faculties, there is a full-time course of study, the term of which is 6 years. Admission of students is carried out on the state (budgetary) and contractual basis. After mastering the developed program, the graduate is given the qualification "doctor", his professional activity is intern-doctor, intern-doctor.

Dental Faculty

Medical University of Odessa Has created an excellent clinical base, including own university dental clinics, equipped with modern equipment, for training general dentists.

At the theoretical and clinical departments during the І and ІІ courses students receive basic knowledge. On the next three courses they receive practical knowledge. In total the stomatological faculty has 8 departments, 6 of which are profile. This department of therapeutic dentistry, orthodontics, children's dentistry, general dentistry, orthopedic dentistry.

Pharmaceutical Faculty

At this faculty, training is conducted both permanently and in absentia. Practical training is carried out in botanical gardens, a diversified clinic of the university, a training and production pharmacy and chemical and pharmaceutical enterprises in the Odessa region.

After the internship, graduates are offered such positions as the head of the pharmacy or her department; Pharmacist, senior pharmacist; Specialist in the production of cosmetic and medicinal products; Manager-marketing specialist in the field of pharmaceutical activities.

International faculty

In the sixties, significant changes took place in the system of training foreign citizens, developed at the university. The dean's office was created to work with students from foreign countries and the Russian language department. At the international faculty since 1990, graduates from other countries have been trained in internships, master's programs, post-graduate courses, and refresher courses have been opened. Later, there was a preparatory department and language courses (Russian and Ukrainian languages), after successful completion of which applicants receive a state certificate and are enrolled in the I course of any of the faculties offered by the medical Odessa University or other educational institution of the country.

Since 1996, the teaching of disciplines has been conducted in English and French.

Medical College

The college was established as a structural unit of the university. There is training at 2 departments - dental and nursing. The first prepares junior specialists in the field of "Orthopedic stomatology". The training program for a period of 2 years with full-time education is designed for graduates of secondary schools.

Applicants with secondary special education are admitted to the nursing department. The evening form of training is offered, for a term of 3 years. Graduates receive a bachelor's degree after graduation.

In addition, the university has a faculty of postgraduate education.

Helpful information

On the official website of the university you can always get all the latest information on admission to the Odessa Medical University. You can find out the passing score by looking at the tables with the list of entries in the "Rules for Admission" section. The site also contains all information about the dates of admission, faculties, specialties.

At all levels of training, regardless of funding sources, a competitive basis for admission to the Odessa Medical University is established. Cost of training (one year) For each of the training areas usually Indicates In the appendix to the rules of admission. For the academic year 2014-15, it amounts to UAH 5,800-18,000 (approximately 16,120 - 50,000 rubles) for citizens of Ukraine and 14,387 - 23,979 UAH (40,000 - 67,000 rubles) for foreign citizens, depending on the specialty. . Consultations on the procedure for payment or other issues can be obtained by filling out an information request and sending it to the university's e-mail or postal address, which are indicated on its official website.

Achievements

Medical University of Odessa Is famous for its unique developments. In recent years, scientific research institutes for regenerative and reconstructive biomedicine, valeology, clinical biophysics, and others have been created on its basis. Within the framework of the state project, the first university multidisciplinary clinic, a family medicine clinic, and a dental polyclinic were opened in Ukraine. Joint work with local health authorities of medical diagnostic centers for eye microsurgery, cardiorheumatology, pediatric cardiology, osteosynthesis, laser surgery, toxicology and others has been successful.

Odessa University Has its own Publishing and printing complex, where scientific journals are published:

• «Odessa medical journal».
• "Integrative Anthropology."
• "The achievements of biology and medicine."
• "Regenerative and Reconstructive Biomedicine".
• Teaching aids series "Library student medical".

Here, scientific works of the University scientists are published in Ukrainian, English, Russian, and French.

The international cooperation

The main thrust of international cooperation of the university is the establishment and further development of scientific and educational agreements with universities and organizations of other countries. Its main content is joint scientific seminars, conferences, studies, international meetings, exhibitions, training of students on jointly developed educational programs. Foreign professors are constantly invited to the university for lecturing.

Cooperation agreements have been signed with the universities of Poland, Italy, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, the United States, India, Iran, and Vietnam.

Prestige of the university, special programs for foreign students, prestigious specialties, practice in university diagnostic and treatment centers - all this is included in the main set of criteria according to which Odessa Medical University is chosen. Feedback about the educational institution is mostly positive, but sometimes there are complaints about the "unbearable complexity of learning", difficulties in the distribution of time. The analysis of data from employers makes it possible to judge about the high level of graduate training, and the words of gratitude to university clinics only contribute to raising the rating of the institution.