Altai State Medical University

About Altai State Medical University

Altai State Medical University (ASMU) is a federal state medical university in Barnaul, Altai Krai. It was founded on 7 August 1954. The founder is the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. The main address is 40 Lenin Avenue, Barnaul. It is a different institution from Altai State University, which is also in Barnaul. According to the university, it runs a multilevel system of education: pre-university training, secondary vocational training, training of graduates and specialists, postgraduate and doctoral studies, and additional professional training.

Institutes and research

The structure includes the Institutes of Clinical Medicine, Pediatrics, Dentistry, Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy, and Public Health and Preventive Medicine. It also has an Institute of Pre-University Education, an Institute of Secondary Vocational Education, and a Faculty of Foreign Students. The main higher-education programmes on the English page are General Medicine (6 years), Pediatrics, Dentistry, Medical and Preventive Work, Pharmacy and Clinical Psychology. The page gives Russian as the language of instruction for these full-time programmes. The Faculty of Foreign Students, described below, is a separate route with English in the first three years.

Students

The university says its institutes train approximately 5,000 students a year and that students and specialists from 27 countries study there. The list on the page includes Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, India, Morocco, Ghana and Bangladesh. The page is not dated. ASMU also has an Association of Foreign Students.

For international applicants

The Faculty of Foreign Students was established in 2016. Its students train in General Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy in English for the first three years, together with an intensive Russian language course. From the fourth year they join clinical departments with other students. The university gives the duration as 6 years for General Medicine and 5 years for Dentistry. International students enter through the general entrance examination or the university's own entry examinations in biology and chemistry. Documents include a notarised translation of the passport, an education certificate with consular legalisation or an apostille and its notarised translation, and an application. They are accepted in person or through the personal account on the university site. The faculty office is at 72 Krasnoarmeysky Prospekt, Barnaul (fis@asmu.ru).

Housing

The student campus has three dormitories: No. 1 at 105 Krupskoy Street, No. 2 at 106 Komsomolsky Prospekt and No. 3 at 36 Chkalova Street. Each dormitory forms a student council every year.