Text H. The Medical Faculty.

A.The medical faculty of Petrozavodsk State University was founded in 1960. It is the largest faculty of the University. The medical faculty occupies 2 big buildings. The dean’s office and the special medical library with its reading hall are in the theoretical building. There is a hostel in front of the theoretical building.

B. The medical faculty has three departments. They are therapeutic, pediatric and pharmaceutical departments.

C. There are 2 forms of education. The therapeutic and pediatric departments have only day education. But as for the pharmaceutical department besides day education it has correspondence education.

D. To enter the medical faculty the applicants must have the complete secondary education. The entrance mark is very high. Entry to the medical faculty is highly competitive and usually the number of candidates is much higher than the number of places.

E. Not only young people from different parts of Russia but many foreign students study at the medical faculty now. Our students have probation periods abroadand are active participants in the international conferences. Many students take part in the Student Scientific Society (SSS). They carry out the research work and take part in the student scientific conference which is held in April. The best reports are published in Russian and foreign languages.

F.The academic year begins on September 1st and is divided into 2 terms of 4 months each. The terms run from September to January and from February to June. At the end of each term the students have to pass examinations and tests.

G. The study course lasts for 6 years, consists of 4 periods and covers general and special medical subjects. The curriculum is divided into an academic and clinical program.

H. The first two years are devoted primarily to the study of basic general subjects fundamental to the practice of medicine. These include physics, chemistry, biology, anatomy, physiology, social sciences, Latin and foreign languages. Every day students have 2-3 classes and 1-2 lectures. The attendance of classes and lectures are compulsory for all the students. It is useful to attend lectures because the professors always deliver them clearly and scientifically. This period is so-called “preclinical training”.

I. The students study clinical subjects from the third to the fifth years during the so-called “clinical training”. These three years are considerably different from the “preclinical training”. While the first two years are spent in the classrooms and laboratories of the faculty, the next three years are mainly hospital-based. During this period, the students spend more time in clinics and receive more intensive instruction in clinical medicine. The admixture of classroom and clinical experiences enables the student to acquire the necessary knowledge for medical practice.

J. In the sixth year each student selects a medical specialty to receive further training in the subinternship. To become highly qualified specialists the graduates enter the internship and then the residency. The time required to complete the internship program is 1 year and the course of the residency is 2 years. Upon successful completion of the residency some medical specialists enter the post-graduate courses, defend dissertations and work as teachers at the medical faculty.

K.The teaching staff of the medical faculty includes Professors, Associate Professors and experienced teachers. There are many Doctors of Science and Masters of Science among them. The most teachers are graduates of the medical faculty

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