The Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy

Yesterday, when we had our English lesson, the teacher said: «You иге students of the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy. And do you know the history of our Academy?»

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«Yes,» said Semenov, one of our students. «I know that our Academy was founded in 1758 as a faculty of the Moscow University and in 1930 it was reorganized into an independent higher learning institution».

«You are quite right,» said the teacher. «The Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, one of the oldest and biggest medical schools in Russia, was formerly the Medical Faculty of the Moscow University, founded by the great Russian scientist M.V. Lomonosov. The University had three faculties: Philosophical, Law and Medical and only thirty students studied at these faculties. Among them were the first medical students: Sybelin, Veniaminov and Yastrebov. The students were taught by three professors of natural history, anatomy and chemistry, respectively. At that time ffie majority of the staff were foreign professors.The first Russian professor of medicine was one of the graduates - Professor Sybelin.

By the 19th century there were six departments at the Medical Faculty: the departments of anatomy, physiology, pathology, surgery, inter** nal medicine and midwifery. The first clinical hospitals were opened in 1805. They were the hospitals of surgery and obstdtrics. By the end of the 19th century 26 departments and 12 clinical hospitals had been founded and new departments added: the departments of hygiene and anatomic pathology. ^ ' \ > ₍ d , ; л \

The professors and students of the Medical Faculty took an active part in the political and social life of the time. The ideas of Herzen and Belinsky were very popular among the staff and students. At that time many outstanding doctors worked at the Faculty. They were: a physician AA. Ostroumov, surgeons N.V. Sklifosovsky, A.A. Bobrov, P.I. Dya-konov, a neurologist A.U. Kozhevnikov, a psychiatrist S.S. Korsakov, an obstetrician-gynecologist B.F. Snegirev, a pediatrician N.F. Filatov, e physiologist I.M. Sechenov, a hygienist F.F. Erismaii, and others.

At present there are many more faculties at the Academy: the Medical Faculty, the Faculty of Preventive Medicine, the Pharmaceutical Faculty (with an evening division), the Nursing faculty, the stomatological faculty, the military medicine faculty, the F'aculty for Training Medical Researchers and Instruktors, as well as the post-graduate Health Care Management Faculty and the Faculty for Advanced Training of doctors and pharmacists. The head of each faculty is the Dean.

The course of training at the Academy is divided into junior and senior levels (the junior and senior divisions of the faculties, respective*

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Iv). There is a six-year course of study at the Medical, Preventive Medicine, Stomatological and Military Medicine Faculties. At the Pharma-i eutical Faculty the students are trained for five years. The course of l raining in the Nursing Faculty is four years. Over 9,000 students study nt these faculties.

The Academy has more than eighty departments in various theoretical and clinical specialties. The curriculum includes all the basic and clinical subjects that are necessary for the training of highly qualified physicians, surgeons, nurses and pharmacists^ At the end of each term (or semester) students take examinations. The undergraduates do a practi-cum at the clinics and teaching hospitals of the Academy. The students have all the facilities to carry on their research under the supervision of (heir professors. The students' scientific society plays an important role in the training of would be health care specialists.

The students of our Academy have various facilities for sports and recreation. Students from other towns are given hostel accommodations».

Then one of the students said that those who were admitted to the Academy took the First-Year Student's Oath. They solemnly swear to master the fundamental medical subjects and to follow the traditions of (he oldest institution of higher medical learning.

During the graduation ceremony young doctors, graduates of the Academy, take The Oath of the Russian Doctor. Young doctors solemnly swear that they will use all their knowledge and abilities to improve the people's health, and to prevent and cure diseases.

The lesson was very interesting and we enjoyed it very much.

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