About universityState Institution “Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” (SI “DMA”) is a center of education, science and culture in highly-developed industrial Dnipropetrovsk region. Being one of the oldest educational institutions of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy has prepared 50 thousand doctors, pharmacists and nurses. Nowadays Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy is one of the prominent higher educational institutions of Ukraine with unique integrated continuous training of specialists at three levels:
- premedical,
- undergraduate,
- postgraduate studies.
Medical academy is a higher educational institution of the 4th accreditation level with the integrated continuous training of specialists at premedical, undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Premedical level includes preparatory course the main goal of which is the language training and studying of general education disciplines.
Undergraduate studies include training in such specialties as general medicine, pediatrics, stomatology, clinical pharmacy, pharmacy.
Postgraduate studies include internship, master degree courses, PhD courses, clinical fellowship and specialization.
Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy has partnership with higher education institutions of Germany, France, the USA, Canada, Russia, the People’s Republic of China, some organizations in Sweden, the Netherlands, Great Britain, etc. Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy is the member of the European Association of the International Medical Education, actively cooperates with World Health Organization and other establishments.
The academy has all conditions for students’ all-round development. If you are interested in scientific activity, you will be gladly accepted in students’ scientific societies.
Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy (DSMA) is having the highest (the 4th) level of accreditation among all universities of Ukraine. In 1922 the Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy (DSMA) organized and edited two scientific medical journals: “Ekaterynoslavsky Medical Journal” and “New Surgical Archive”. When the Academy created a single scientific society that was theoretical, surgical, therapeutic, orthopedic, trauma and pediatric sections.
Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University is the only in all over Ukraine, providing training to students in all seven faculties and preparatory department for foreign citizens.
The faculties are the following:
General Medicine
The Medical course at the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy takes six years and leads to MD (MBBS/ General Medicine). In the undergraduate program, the students learn different subjects from fundamental subjects disciplines to special medical subjects.
This is an exciting time in medicine as we look forward to developing new avenues in health care excellence. The practice of medicine remains one of the most requested of all professions and we believe that Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy is a perfect place to acquire medical knowledge and gain the degree. We believe students are enrolling in Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy for the right reasons – they want to provide care for people and they feel that as physicians they can make a difference in their communities. For that reason, we have great faith that there is a bright future for health care.
Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy is known nationally for its many innovative teaching, clinical training, and research programs. Our award-winning faculty members constantly strive for innovation and excellence in the classroom, the laboratory, and the clinic. Because the class size is relatively small, our faculty members get to know each student. It is one thing to say the Academy has terrific people and programs and another to prove it.
Foreigners study in a group of seven-eight students. The second-year students attend their clinical studies where they can gain experience in nursing the patients. Clinical subjects are taught beginning from the third year of study. Students can study any topic of interest and raise their knowledge in different departments. All six years of the program are important and all must be passed successfully before students are permitted to graduate.
The state final examinations on all the disciplines according to the syllabus are held within one system through 2 stages:
- Testing practical proficiency of final-year students (when exams on clinical disciplines are taken, testing takes place at the patient’s bed)
- Testing scientific/theoretical proficiency.
The successful students who will complete a study of five years, then on graduation work for another year under probation in order to gain general registration. There is a wide range of specialization available in the public and private sectors, involving research, academic medicine, public health, clinical medicine, and other areas. Specialties include Cardiology, Oncology, Pediatrics, Psychological Medicine, Surgery, Pathology, Public Health, General Practice, and many others. Most doctors complete postgraduate training in their chosen specialty.
Pediatrics
In Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University the course of study comprises six academic years. The fundamental syllabus is very close to those of the “General Medicine”, however much attention is paid to the peculiarities of the vitality of infantile organisms. Of the multitude of clinical subjects students study pediatrics and surgery of a child’s age. Those, who successfully complete their education, acquire the Certificate of pediatrician and can be engaged in treating patients at children hospitals, continue their study and be involved in research work.
A doctor-podiatrists must be a high-educated person, possess wide knowledge in the field of biological, medical and special sciences and be not only a doctor but also an educator. A student receives general biological and medical education at first courses; the paediatric education starts from the third course to the sixth course. Students of the pediatric faculty master knowledge at many chairs during 6 years of study , where they study anatomy, physiology, pathology and hygiene of childish age. The employees of the chairs study successfully the questions of pathology of childish age, rearing, organization of help for children by purulent and inflammatory diseases, treatment of inborn defects of hip and hip-joint development, children’s infectious diseases and others.
The intensive education of students-paediatricians at theoretical and clinical chairs allows to train skilled doctors-paediatricians. Besides studies by educational programs, many students conduct scientific work in groups; work in laboratories, that’s why one can assert boldly that readiness of students to practical activity is quite high in establishments of health protection.
At 6th course students are given a right of choice (depending on the requirement of practical health protection) of his further specialization and namely a doctor-podiatrist of a wide profile or children’s doctor-surgeon.
After passing state exams all the students with Certificates of doctors-podiatrists go to children’s medical and prophylactic establishments for passing the internship during one year. The internship gives an opportunity to specialize in the earlier chosen paediatrics profession.
Graduates of the pediatric faculty in Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University, the doctors-podiatrists, work in all parts of our country. Some of them became scientists, others – practical doctors.
Foreign scientists are invited for teaching and research. Citizens of other countries are taught on basic of interstate and bilateral agreements
International activities: training specialists and science workers, realizing international projects, services etc.
International science conferences, symposiums, exhibitions, presentations are organized and participated by the University
The Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University carries on these activities in compliance with the acting legislation and the Rules of the University. Wide international cooperation helps raising the organizational standard and improving the teaching/studying process.
Management of Public Health
The Department of Health Management is the Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University’s base for education, research, and innovative thinking related to management, quality and policy of health care services, healthcare technology, and health care financing. The scope of activities and the training subjects of the Department has been developing over time, according to the needs of the country, political context and priorities in health systems, as well as development of the concepts of health management and public health.
Public health management is defined as the mobilization and management of the society’s resources including the specific resources of the health services sector, to improve the health of population through whatever means is appropriate. Our educational programs focus on helping students develop the critical thinking and applied problem-solving skills needed to address a wide variety of public health and health management challenges. Department of Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University provides students with knowledge and skills to apply classroom learning to real world, public health management, and to address fundamental issues in today’s complex and rapidly changing healthcare environment in Lithuania and abroad.
Large variety of study subjects for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as for retraining of healthcare executives, leaders and administrators, aiming at shaping their attitudes towards comprehensive health management, is offered at the Department. Students of the Faculties of Medicine, Odontology, Public Health and Nursing study social medicine, health care management and quality, medical history and medical law. The same subjects are taught in English for foreign students of the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Odontology. Since 1st September 1997, new discipline was introduced – Management of health care quality. Refresher and postgraduate training courses for the health care managers and administrators are organized on a regular basis at the Department.
Training of doctoral students, reviews of scientific projects, methodological guidelines, and different reports is carried out at the Department. Consulting of health care managers, active involvement in health policy formulation and into activities of the National health board, as well as expertise of different activities of national and international institutions and organizations is carried out by the staff of the department.
Dentistry
The Dentistry faculty at Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University is highly modernized. It is well structured with an advanced curriculum, highly educated teachers and sophisticated laboratories. Dentistry study at Dnipropetrovsk state medical University is considered one of the best dentistry studies in Europe. Study of Dentistry at Dnipropetrovsk state medical is exactly according to international standard and in low tuition fee. That’s the reason a lot of students from America, Asia Africa and India come to our university every year to study Dentistry. The time period for faculty of dentistry is 5 years. The students go through the basic subjects of medical and biological profile, as well as various clinical disciplines, which are so necessary for a dentist.
On condition of successful completion of study the graduates are given the Certificate of a doctor – dentist. The degree awarded is BDS.
During junior courses students study theoretical disciplines and beginning from the fourth course, they start studying clinical disciplines. At junior courses students study theoretical disciplines, whereas they start studying clinical disciplines from the fourth course. The chairs of anatomy, histology, normal physiology, biochemistry, general chemistry, having wonderful traditions in organization of educational process and high skilled teachers, could do profiles for the teaching of their disciplines, taking into account the faculty’s specificity. For mastering the propaedeutic course by students the departments have well equipped additional premises, acquired a necessary quantity of visual aids and special apparatus. Both teachers and students are involved in manuals’ edition at the University. A metal-ceramic laboratory and a laboratory for high frequency melting and casting of dentures are specially organized. At special dental departments the students study principal actual problems of dentistry: caries, paradontosis, and diseases of the mucous membrane in the mouth cavity.
The principle task of the dental faculty is perfection of higher dentistry education, raising the quality of doctors dental training. At the faculty they worked out and applied the complex of methodical ways for optimization of educational process, which is aimed at activation of cognitive activity of students, development of habits for educational and researching work, training the creative method of approach for professional activity.
The stomatological faculty helps the students to obtain good knowledge in the dental field. It grows and develops, absorbing all the best from the experience of Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University work.
Pharmacy
At the pharmacological faculty of the Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University in the curriculum is for five academic years.
The student acquires the fundamentals of medical and biological knowledge, learn in detail various subjects in the specialty and some clinical ones. On successful completion of study the graduates get the Certificate of pharmacist. The faculty trains the students for work at the institutions of pharmacy and also for research work.
A powerful educational methodical base is being created for training highly qualified specialists. There are such departments as the pharmacognosy, Biology and Genetics department and chemo pharmaceutical disciplines department. Medical botany, Inorganic chemistry, Analytical, physical and organic chemistry, methods for analysis are taught at these departments. All the departments are supplied with all the necessary equipment, reagents and textbooks.
Nursing
The faculty of nursing practice in Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University trains medical nurses – bachelors with higher medical education. The applicants with medical education (those who have finished medical institutions of the first grade accreditation) are admitted to the University. The course of study lasts two academic years for day time department and three academic years for part time department.
At first students study fundamental medical and biological disciplines. Then they study clinical subjects and nursing in different situations. Practical training together with theoretical one are given both at different departments of University and clinics. The graduates get the Certificate of bachelor. Their qualification allows them to occupy administrative posts and work as medical nurses of different profiles.
Thus favorable conditions are provided to efficiently train junior specialists and apply the system of continuous staged training by comprehensive curricula and programs for medical nurses with the basic higher medical education – bachelor-nurses.
- To reform the education is impossible without expanding international cooperation with other Universities abroad, and these activities are carried on along the following directions:
- Foreign scientists are invited for teaching and research. Citizens of other countries are taught on basic of interstate and bilateral agreements
- International activities: training specialists and science workers, realizing international projects, services etc.
- Steps are being taken for the educational sector of Ukraine to join the international treaties on preliminary training of persons who are going to apply to higher institutions
- Assistance is provided in establishing and supporting direct contacts of educational institutions of Ukraine with other states
- International science conferences, symposiums, exhibitions, presentations are organized and participated by the University
Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University carries on these activities in compliance with the acting legislation and the Rules of the University. Wide international cooperation helps raising the organizational standard and improving the teaching/studying process.
Postgraduate Education
The faculty of postgraduate education in Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University offers the study in 26 medical specialties at internship, mastership and clinical internship. At the department of Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University , along with the traditional ways of teaching, there is also a module study, and a through out program of students’ practice. Constantly developing base of computerized equipment gives the possibility to use modern PC know-how and world informative networks in the process of study.
Postgraduates at Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University, are taught in English, Ukrainian and Russian languages according to the programs and curricula approved by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. We take into consideration and peculiarities of public health services of the state trainees come from.
Faculty of Postgraduate Education:
- Radiology
- Therapy
- Dermatology and Venereology
- Infectious Diseases
- Neurology
- Pathological Anatomy
- Psychiatry
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Anesthesiology
- Orthopedics
- Ophthalmology
- Urology
- Surgery
- Pediatrics
- Child Gynecology
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Pediatric Surgery
- Hygiene of Children and Teenagers
- General Hygiene
- Cardiology
- Occupational Hygiene
- Epidemiology
- Therapeutic Dentistry
- Pediatric Dentistry
- Orthopedic Dentistry
- Surgical Dentistry
The main objective of the postgraduate training is to allow the students of medical institutions to continue their education and general practitioners to improve their skills for further certification and faculty is directed at the training and improvement of qualification and skills of specialists to master not only up-to date medical information but new modern technologies of today and tomorrow.
The Medical faculty of Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University, together with its teaching hospitals and other health organizations in Ukraine and abroad, will provide the necessary physical and human resources to create a scholarly environment appropriate for the training of medical graduates so that they acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes to become accomplished physicians and surgeons with the highest moral and ethical standards.
The individual form of training is based on qualification characteristics, professional and position requirements, principles of realized perspective and doctor’s pretensions. Detailed theoretical training is combined with learning practical skills, operative technique, and typical and complex operations.
To maintain its international role, the Medical Faculty of Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University intends by means of contractual arrangements with foreign countries, universities, and hospitals to train residents from other countries in its postgraduate training programs who will return to their home country upon completion of their training.
Preparatory faculty for foreign citizens
The preparatory course at Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy has been teaching foreign citizens since 1990. The licensed (maximal) quantity of foreign students is 150 people per year. For the period of its existence, there were more than 1000 graduates from 36 countries of the world: Jordan, Angola, Iran, Nepal, Israel, Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, the USA, Canada, China, etc.
Foreign students’ training is carried out by highly skilled staff: 17 lecturers (among them 1 professor and 3 Ph.D.). All preparatory course lecturers are engaged systematically and successfully in methodological and scientific work.
Modern material and technical basis, high level of teaching staff and high-grade conditions for mastering of the training program are important conditions of foreign students’ high-quality preparation.
All listeners of the preparatory course are provided with scientific and methodical literature. The efficiency of the educational process depends on the educational facilities, especially modern technologies.
Preparatory course listeners study in computer and language classes according to the original programs created by departments of Medical Biology, Medical and Biological Physics, Biochemistry, Language Training.
The language department of Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University has 2 computer classes equipped with 12 modern training programs including various tasks, exercises, theoretical and practical materials aiming to help to study and consolidate grammatical material of each language section.
The teaching staff takes into consideration the culture and behavior differentiations of the listeners in the study process. While working with foreign students teaching the staff of DMA considers the complexity and duration of the adaptation process to Ukrainian way of life, understanding of the Ukrainian national traditions, Slavic culture and mentality as a whole.
An important role in the work of the language department of Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University is given to educational work, both in the training process and out-of-class work. Considering that the most important period of adaptation falls in the first year of life in Ukraine lecturers include 2 important components in their pedagogical activity: informative training and entertainment.
The teaching staff of the language department helps students-foreigners not only within the educational process but also in everyday life. The New Year’s holidays, national and religious holidays, parties of Ukrainian and foreign students strengthen the international friendship in the academy.
The Academy trains specialists in all faculties in English, Russian and Ukrainian languages.
Throughout its history, the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (DMA) has trained about 49 000 doctors, dentists, pharmacists, and nurses-bachelors.
Since 1996, the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (DMA) is headed by Academician of Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Professor G.V. Dzyak.
At present 4500 students are studying in Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (DMA), among them are 700 students from 36 countries are getting training in different specialties, among them mostly students are from Jordan, Syria, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan, Palestine, China, Morocco, Lebanon, Kenya, Ghana, and others.
Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (DMA) has conducted training of foreign nationals since 1990. In 1995 the Academy graduated the first batch of foreign physicians. For 10 years, Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (DMA) trained more than 1000 foreign specialists from 30 countries of the world.
Scientific activities of the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (DMA) are provided with modern technical and methodological bases. The priorities are:
- development of new diagnostic technology development and progression of hypertension;
- perinatal HIV infection: assessment of the effectiveness and optimization of modern pharmacological means of prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and deter the spread of HIV / AIDS;
- development of new treatments and prevention of bladder cancer and prostate cancer;
- modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular disease;
- development of domestic technologies treatment of orthopedic diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system.
Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy scientists actively participate in international congresses and symposia. Over the last 5 years, the Academy defended the 15 doctoral and 167 master’s theses. Performance of graduates of Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (DSMA) was 100%. Academy received 265 patients, Published 6507 articles, 516 of them were internationally published. The Academy produces 3 academic scientific journals – “Medical Perspectives”, “Urology” and “Dermatovenereology, cosmetology, sexual pathology”.
The Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (DMA) occupies an area of 85 hectares. Academy has 8 academic buildings with a total area of 52000 square meters, in which 608 classrooms, offices and laboratories are located.
Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (DMA) has 7 hostels for students with an area of 46000 sq.m. 2849 students can stay at the Academy’s hostels. The Academy has a sports complex (which includes gaming, fencing, fitness room, table tennis hall, wrestling, swimming pool, shooting gallery, a sports stadium with tennis courts), vivarium, a sanatorium, country sports camp for 250 people, academic library with electronic devices, Technocenter and two museums.
42 Clinical departments of Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy (DSMA) are located in the 28 hospitals of the city of Dnipropetrovsk and the number of beds which clinical departments use is 15000.
Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (DMA) provides high-quality education to students who are looking for quality education at affordable course fees. Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (DMA) has a good team of long term experienced teachers in providing quality education to the students.
19 professors and 58 associate professors work at the Faculty of Postgraduate education in Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy (DSMA). Faculty Conducts postgraduate training in three areas:
- primary specialty medical interns – internship;
- training or retraining of medical specialists;
- clinical residencies.
The Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy (DSMA) long experience in training of foreign specialists, highly qualified teaching staff and modern facilities – all guarantee a high level of theoretical and practical training to the students of the University.
Departments
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Accomodation
Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy of Health Ministry of Ukraine provides guaranteed accommodation placement services to all foreign students who receive an academic offer. There are several accommodation options for the students and it is important to consider whether you prefer an independent lifestyle or enjoy living in a student community.
The academy provides accommodation for students in the hostels. In total Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy has 7 comfortable hostels located in different regions of the city, which are connected by advanced transport structure (bus, tramway, and trolley-bus). The hostels have a total area of 45422 sq. m. and can accommodate 2768 students. Foreign students live in the hostels No 1, 5 and 7.
The hostel buildings are of a modern block type and consist of the rooms for 2-3 students with all the necessary conveniences. All rooms are well-organized and furnished with a bed, a desk and a chair, provided with cold and hot running water, central heating, Internet access and suitable lighting for both study and relaxation. The territory of the hostels is protected and patrolled by officers of guard service. In the hostel, each room is attached to the kitchen suitable for students to cook food on their own taste. Students will need to supply their kitchen utensils.
Meals and provisions may be bought from various shops and supermarkets around. There are also several students’ canteens and cafes on the territory of the academy.
Living in a hostel you’ll combine the convenience of living near academic buildings, the access to programs and services which help you develop academically, the opportunity to build lasting friendship relations, and comfortable, affordable living.
Off-campus accommodation can be obtained in the nearby apartments. Available apartments and houses are furnished and vary in size, number of conveniences and cost.
Great help in educational work is provided by the deans and their educational assistants and the curators who attend hostels, take an active part in student meetings, educational conversations with residents. Annually competitions for the best room, the floor in the hostels of our academy, where winners receive valuable prizes, are held.
Hospitals
Practical classes students of Dnipropetrovsk State Medical University spend in hospitals all over the city. Here are some of them:
- Dnipropetrovsk Sixth City Clinical Hospital
- Dnipropetrovsk Regional Hospital for War Veterans
- City Clinical Hospital 2
- Mechnikov Hospital
- Dnipropetrovsk City Clinical Hospital No. 9
- Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Children’s Hospital
- Children’s Municipal Clinical Hospital No. 5
- Dnipropetrovsk City Children’s Clinical Hospital No. 3
- Dnipropetrovsk City Children’s Clinical Hospital No. 6
- Central district hospital of Dnipropetrovsk region
- City Clinical Hospital No. 11
- Dnipropetrovsk City Children’s Clinical Hospital No. 1
- City Clinical Hospital No. 7
- Municipal Specialized Hospital No. 8
The city of Dnipro
he city of Dnipro (former Dnipropetrovsk) or Dnepr (Rus.) is situated on the Dnieper River (Dnepr or Dnipro) in East-Central Ukraine and has a population of 1 million (the third city in the country by population).
Large and beautiful, it is the main city of East-Central Ukraine.
Dnipro is a dynamic and lively city.
The city is surprisingly green along the wide and slow-moving Dnieper river (Dnepr in Russian, Dnipro in Ukrainian) and has remarkable embankments, long boulevards, and spacious parks.
It is also the major center of high-technology industries, education, machine-building, metallurgy, and trade. The city is not only famous for its commercial industry, but also its green hills and deep history.
The old fortress settlement has existed since the middle of the 16th century. The new town was founded in 1776 by the Russian Prince, Potemkin by order of Catherine II, Empress of the Russian Empire and was called Yekaterinoslav (Ekaterinoslav) from 1776 to 1926. During 1918 the town’s name was Sicheslav (The Glory for Sich’/Fortress of Cossacks).
Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk) has been the major center of the steel industry from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. It has also dominated in the machine building and aero-space-building industry since the 1950s.
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