Saint Petersburg State Medical Academy

North-western State Medical University named after I.I.Mechnikov was formed on October the 12-th, 2011, as a result of merger of two oldest educational medical institutions in Russia - Saint-Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies and Saint-Petersburg State Medical Academy n. a. I.I. Mechnikov. The founder of Mechnikov university is the Ministry of public health of Russian Federation. The activity of the University is based on cooperation and coordination of educational, clinical and scientific activity. It makes possible to prepare competent specialists, who possess up-to-date knowledge and are able to use it in practice. 4,200 students 3000 students on budgetary education form and 1200 on fee-based educational form are studying at the University, among them are 500 students from foreign countries. Besides that, at the University are studying over 670 interns and about 1500 clinical residents, 460 Ph.D. candidates do their postgraduate work. Up to 35 000 specialists undergo their short- and long- term postdoctoral training annually.

Diagnostic and clinical work at Mechnikov University is managed in 6 own clinics, which capacity is 1645 beds and include 25 clinical specializations. Clinical subdivisions of the University provide high-skilled medical help to 40000 patients at hospital and about 300000 outpatiently yearly. The research work at Mechnikov University is conducted in accordance with recent scientific development directions of biomedical sciences. Considerable attention is paid to studies in the field of health protection and sanitary and epidemiological welfare of population. The long-term strategy is focused on effective transfer of fundamental and applied scientific action results and on building supportive scientific-educational environment, what will make possible to prepare specialist of highest qualification.

University is revering best historical traditions of Russian medical science and proceed a development of medical disciplines of prominent Russian scientific schools grounded by V.M. Bechterev, E.E. Eichvald, N.V. Sklifosovskiy, D.O. Ott, N.D. Monastyrskiy, G.V. Khlopin, N.N. Anichkov, A.A. Uchtomskiy, S.S. Girgolava and others. Today the University carries out its activity in three main directions: medical education, clinical work and scientific research. Close interaction of these three areas let us train high qualified specialists, who can put into practice their up-to-date medical knowledge.

The University today is a key part of the North-Western region of the Russian Federation targeted on the creation and accumulation of a up-to-date medical knowledge, the integration of research with the educational process and medical work.