Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

About Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, also called Pavlov University (in Russian, PSPbGMU), is a state medical university in Saint Petersburg. Its history begins on 26 September 1897 (14 September in the old calendar), when the Women's Medical Institute opened. The university calls it the first institution in Russia and Europe where women could receive higher medical education. The name changed several times: First Leningrad Medical Institute in 1924, the name of Academician Ivan Pavlov in 1936, university status in 1994, and the word "First" was returned to the name in 2013. The founder is the Russian Federation; the Ministry of Health exercises the founder's powers. The address is 6-8 Lev Tolstoy Street, Saint Petersburg. The university has no branches. It is a different institution from Ryazan State Medical University named after Academician I. P. Pavlov in Ryazan.

Institutes and research

The university has the Valdman Institute of Pharmacology, the Institute of Nursing Education and the Scientific-Educational Institute of Biomedicine. Its research institutes cover pediatric oncology, hematology and transplantation (named after R. M. Gorbacheva), surgery and emergency medicine, dentistry and maxillofacial surgery, nephrology, pulmonology, cardiovascular diseases, rheumatology and allergology, and children's surgery and pediatrics. The university also has a polyclinic in its structure.

For international applicants

The Medical Faculty for Foreign Students teaches foreign citizens. General medicine is taught in Russian and in English. Dentistry and pediatrics are taught in Russian only. According to the English admission page, general medicine and pediatrics take 6 years and dentistry takes 5 years. The faculty helps students with dormitory placement, legal stay in Russia, and leisure activities.

The preparatory department for foreign citizens prepares applicants for the first year of medical study. Students learn Russian, chemistry and biology, and also study Russian culture and history. The department works in two formats: with entry into Russia, and online by distance. University professors and teachers give the classes. Questions about international admission can be sent to admission@pspbgmu.ru.

Housing

According to the mandatory disclosure, the university has four dormitories with 2,262 places. They are in the Petrogradsky, Frunzensky and Primorsky districts of Saint Petersburg. The dormitory page gives a separate number of places for foreign applicants for each academic year.