The Siberian State Medical University, SibMed (
Russian
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*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: «Сибирский государственный медицинский университет», СибГМУ) is a public medical school in
Tomsk
Tomsk ( rus, Томск, p=tomsk, sty, Түң-тора) is a city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, located on the Tom River. Population:
Founded in 1604, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia. The city is a n ...
, Russia. It was founded in May, 1878 by the decree of the
Emperor Alexander II
Alexander II ( rus, Алекса́ндр II Никола́евич, Aleksándr II Nikoláyevich, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ftɐˈroj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ; 29 April 181813 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Fin ...
. Today, Siberian State Medical University provides
undergraduate
Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-le ...
,
graduate, and
postgraduate
Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate ( bachelor's) degree.
The organization and ...
degrees in
biochemistry
Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...
,
biophysics
Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. ...
,
general medicine,
pediatrics, dentistry,
pharmacy, and nursery fields. It is one of the few universities in Russia that has its own hospital that is not only providing medical care for citizens in
Tomsk Region
Tomsk Oblast (russian: То́мская о́бласть, ''Tomskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative cen ...
and other regions but, also, is a training center for students and medical professionals. It has more than 6 500 students that come from 39 countries worldwide. In 2017, SibMed obtained the status of the only flagship medical university in Russia.
History
Siberian Imperial University 1888-1930
Siberian Imperial University in Tomsk was founded in 1878. It was the ninth university opened in Russia at that time. The university started fully functioning only in 1888 when the construction activities were over. For more than ten years the Faculty of Medicine was the only faculty in the university. Shortly after the Faculty started operating, the construction of a university hospital and infectious diseases unit begun. In 1893, a Hygiene Unit was opened. Later, Imperial University grew to include an Outpatient Clinic and Bacteriological Institute. In 1907, three store buildings were given to Anatomy Institute that had one of the best Anatomy museums in Russia.
Tomsk State Medical Institute 1930-1991
In 1930, Tomsk State Medical Institute was organized. It was independent institution, a merger of two faculties, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Sanitation and Hygiene that separated from Tomsk Imperial University. In 1938–1956, it was known as Medical Institute named after
V.M. Molotov. Just before the World War II started, the Institute consisted of 2 faculties, 40 departments and 17 clinics with 700 beds. There was also a blood transfusion station, a vivarium with 1200 laboratory animals, 3 museums, a library with 150 thousand books. All professors, doctors and students were helping soldiers during the War. Some of them went directly to the battlefield, some of them were treating injured in the hospital in Tomsk.
In September 1945, the Tomsk Medical Institute received 2 400 students most of whom were demobilized soldiers. Some of the graduates in that period choose to continue their studies in Tomsk and proceed to a graduate school. Also, after war the Institute ‘s composition changed. The Institute could offer studies with 5 different faculties, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Sanitation and Hygiene, Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Pediatrics and Faculty of Pharmacy.
Siberian State Medical University 1992
In 1992, Tomsk State Medical Institute was one of the first institutions in
Russian Federation
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to receive the
university status
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.
Reputation
Siberian State Medical University is often regarded as one of the best academic institutions in Russia having medical profile. According to
Interfax National Rankings, SibMed took 48th position among all Russian universities in 2019. Also, in 2019 it entered
The Three University Missions Moscow International University Ranking, where it was ranked in 701-800 interval group among world universities and 25-32 interval group among all Russian universities. Based on
Round University Ranking
Round University Ranking (RUR Ranking) is a Moscow, Russia-based world university ranking, assessing effectiveness of 700 leading world universities based on 20 indicators distributed among 4 key dimension areas: teaching, research, international ...
s, SibMed enters the World League of universities.
Departments
The university has the following departments:
* Department of
General Medicine
* Department of
Pediatrics
* Department of
Pharmacy
* Department of
Biomedicine
Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)
* Institute of Integrative Health
* Department of Professional Development and Retraining
* Department of
Distance Learning
Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ...
Activities
Education
SibMed offers specialist degrees in
general medicine,
pharmacy,
pediatrics and
dentistry that usually take from 5 to 6 years of study. For international students, general
medicine degree
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...
has a fully
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
taught track. For those willing to specialize further in different medical fields, SibMed has more than 45 different
residency
Residency may refer to:
* Domicile (law), the act of establishing or maintaining a residence in a given place
** Permanent residency, indefinite residence within a country despite not having citizenship
* Residency (medicine), a stage of postgra ...
tracks, namely
allergy and immunology
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,
diabetology,
infectious diseases,
endocrinology
Endocrinology (from '' endocrine'' + '' -ology'') is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones. It is also concerned with the integration of developmental event ...
,
plastic surgery
Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction or alteration of the human body. It can be divided into two main categories: reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. Reconstructive surgery includes cranio ...
, and many others. Residency studies are offered in
Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
language. Students studying at SibMed have many options to practice their skills. SibMed has well quipped Simulation Center that provides various specialized training in
emergency care
Emergency medicine is the medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians (often called “ER doctors” in the United States) continuously learn to care for unsche ...
,
first aid
First aid is the first and immediate assistance given to any person with either a minor or serious illness or injury, with care provided to preserve life, prevent the condition from worsening, or to promote recovery. It includes initial in ...
and other topics. The center is equipped with
AR technologies,
3D lecture halls, special wards that allow to
simulate
A simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time. Simulations require the use of Conceptual model, models; the model represents the key characteristics or behaviors of the selected system or proc ...
different medical situations. Also, medical professionals from the different
Siberia
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n regions can pursue their medical
accreditation
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in the center.
A list of degrees conferred and the required study:
*
Medical Doctor (MD) (6 years)
*Medical Doctor — Pediatrician (MD) (6 years)
*Master of Pharmacy (5 years)
*Doctor –
Biochemist (6 years)
*Doctor –
Biophysicist
Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. ...
(6 years)
*Doctor –
Cyberneticist
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Heinz von Foerster once told Stuart Umpleby that Norbert Wiener preferred the term "cybernetician" rather than "cyberneticist", perhaps because Wiener was a mathematician ...
(6 years)
*Economist – Manager in Health Care (5 years)
*Medical Nurse with Higher Education (4 years)
*
Candidate of Medical Science (postgraduate program)
*Doctor of Medical Science (D.M.Sc. program)
*
Clinical Psychologist (5.5 years)
*
Social Worker (5 years)
Science and innovation
SibMed focuses its research activities in the following areas: increasing
life expectancy
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, current age, and other demographic factors like sex. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth ...
and people's well-being, decreasing the burden of chronic noncommunicable diseases, finding new effective models for managing the
health care systems
Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...
,
antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microbes evolve mechanisms that protect them from the effects of antimicrobials. All classes of microbes can evolve resistance. Fungi evolve antifungal resistance. Viruses evolve antiviral resistance. P ...
, developing new medicines and a personalized approach based on the 4P model.
''Digital Hospital'' is one of the projects that was designed to cover the issues related to health care systems management.
As part of its innovation strategy the university obtained the license to produce pharmaceuticals from
the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. SibMed Technology Transfer Center has necessary facilities, equipped production site that allows for production and testing of various medicines. The center, also, conducts
pre-clinical testing of drugs developed by other universities or
pharmaceuticals companies.
The vast part of the developments in SibMed were completed in collaboration with the
industry
Industry may refer to:
Economics
* Industry (economics), a generally categorized branch of economic activity
* Industry (manufacturing), a specific branch of economic activity, typically in factories with machinery
* The wider industrial sector ...
partners. This was the case for virtual simulator to restore motor function in patients who have suffered a stroke. Moreover, the university research team developed a system for remote monitoring of chronic noncommunicable diseases and new generation
telemedicine spirograph.
In 2019, SibMed received support for two projects in
National Technological Initiative, 37 grant applications from Russian Scienсe Foundation and completed 35 research projects under partnership agreements. Also, it publishes 2 journals, namely Bulletin of Siberian Medicine and Drug Development & Registration, that are indexed in
Scopus
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, and two in
WoS.
International cooperation
SiBMed collaborates with the
DAAD Academic Exchange Fund (
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
) and
Fulbright Foundation Scholarship Program. Every year SibMed welcomes Fulbright scholars that take active part in helping developing English language proficiency among SibMed staff and students.
Many SibMed partnerships received an extensive support from
European Union
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. In 2015, together with
Tomsk State University
The National Research Tomsk State University, TSU (russian: Национа́льный иссле́довательский То́мский госуда́рственный университе́т) is a public research university located in Tom ...
, SibMed won the
Erasmus + grant for the implementation of the project „Bridging Innovations, Health and Societies: Educational capacity building in the Eastern European Neighbouring Areas / BIHSENA“. In 2017, the university received another round of funding from EU Erasmus+ for the implementation of the educational project „Improving Healthcare Outcomes in Chronic Diseases - Enhancing the Curriculum at Masters Level / IHOD“. Moreover, the university received support for several applications for Erasmus +, Key Action-1 grants with the
Medical University of Plovdiv (
Bulgaria
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) and
Leiden University (
Netherlands
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) in 2019.
Tomsk
Opisthorchiasis
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...
Consortium (TOPIC) is a collaboration of research groups from
Russia
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,
Netherlands
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USA
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,
Germany
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,
Thailand
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,
Switzerland,
United Kingdom
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that focus on the study of
liver fluke
Liver fluke is a collective name of a polyphyletic group of parasitic trematodes under the phylum Platyhelminthes.
They are principally parasites of the liver of various mammals, including humans. Capable of moving along the blood circulation, t ...
infections and associated diseases. The Consortium is aimed at intensifying studies that expand knowledge about the epidemiology, pathogenesis and long-term effects of invasion of the hepatic flukes, as well as allowing the development of new tools for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of opisthorchiasis. TOPIC was initiated by SibMed team with the support from
Russian Academy of Science
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...
,
Pfizer
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company and Technology Platform “Medicine of the Future”.
Hospital
SibMed Hospital is a teaching hospital of Siberian State Medical University in
Tomsk
Tomsk ( rus, Томск, p=tomsk, sty, Түң-тора) is a city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, located on the Tom River. Population:
Founded in 1604, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia. The city is a n ...
, Russia. It is one of the main medical institutions in
Tomsk Region
Tomsk Oblast (russian: То́мская о́бласть, ''Tomskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative cen ...
, located in the city center of Tomsk. The hospital provides
inpatient
A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health car ...
and
outpatient
A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health care ...
care. Also, it has
emergency care
Emergency medicine is the medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians (often called “ER doctors” in the United States) continuously learn to care for unsche ...
unit serving to Tomsk citizens several times a week.
SibMed Hospital is using modern equipment that allows to perform complicated surgeries in difficult medical cases. Also, it has well equipped diagnostics center.
The hospital consists of several specialized clinics:
* "Professor" multidisciplinary medical center,
*
Assisted Reproductive Technology Center (ART Center)
*
Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic
*
Urology
Urology (from Greek οὖρον ''ouron'' "urine" and '' -logia'' "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary-tract system and the reproductive org ...
Department
*
Surgery Department
*
Neurology
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Clinic
* Children's Clinic
*
Endocrinology
Endocrinology (from '' endocrine'' + '' -ology'') is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones. It is also concerned with the integration of developmental event ...
Department
*
Rheumatology
Rheumatology (Greek ''ῥεῦμα'', ''rheûma'', flowing current) is a branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and management of disorders whose common feature is inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints, and internal organs. Rheumatolog ...
Department
*
Ophthalmology
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An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a medic ...
Clinic
*
Infectious Disease
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Clinics
*
Surgical Oncology Department
*
General Medicine Clinic
*
Dental Clinic
Alumni
*
Alexander Sergeyevich Makarov
*
Lev Panin
*
Larisa Shoygu
Larisa Kuzhugetovna Shoigu ( rus, Лариса Кужугетовна Шойгу; 21 January 1953 – 10 June 2021) was a Russian politician. She served as a Deputy of the State Duma for its 5th, 6th and 7th convocations,
between 2007 and 202 ...
External links
Siberian State Medical UniversitySiberian State Medical UniversityBulletin of Siberian MedicineBulletin of Siberian MedicineDrug Development & RegistrationDrug Development & RegistrationTomsk Opisthorchiasis Consortium (TOPIC)
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