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First Moscow State Medical University (officially I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, informally Sechenov University);
Russian: Первый Московский государственный медицинский университет имени И. М. Сеченова) is the oldest
medical university in
Russia, located in
Moscow.[5][6]
The university was founded in 1758 as medical faculty of
Imperial Moscow University as the first medical school in Russia.[6] The institution separated from the
Moscow State University and became independent in 1930. The university was renamed after Russian physiologist,
Ivan Sechenov, in 1955. It was known as I.M. Sechenov First Moscow Institute of Medicine until 1990, and I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy from 1990 to 2010.[5] MSMU is located at
Devichye Pole, a medical campus, in Moscow.[6]
The university was inaugurated as the Imperial Moscow University (
Moscow State University since 1917) in 1755. It is named after Ivan Sechenov, a doctoral graduate of Moscow Imperial, who is known as the "father of Russian
physiology." The institution became independent in 1930 and acquired full university status in 2010.[6] It celebrated its 260th anniversary in 2018.[5] The academy is a center for training, certification and further education for medical staff and pharmacists.[citation needed]
Faculties
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Pediatrics
Faculty of Preventive Medicine
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Postgraduate Professional Training of Physicians
Preparatory Department for International Applicants
Grigori Gorin (Grigori Israilevich Ofshtein) - playwright and writer
Sergei Korsakoff[5] — neuropsychiatrist; europsychiatrist of the 19th century, known for his studies on the effects of alcoholism on the nervous system (
Korsakoff syndrome) and introduction of the concept of paranoia
Nikolay Pirogov[5] — scientist, medical doctor, inventor, pedagogue and member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences; considered to be the founder of
field surgery and was one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic
Rafiq Tağı — Azerbaijani short-story writer and journalist, graduated in cardiology
Amiran Revishvili — Georgian cardiac surgeon and electrophysiologist, president of Pan-Russian Scientific Society of Clinical Electrophysiology, Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing
Boris Yegorov — physician-astronaut who became the first physician to make a space flight