Kazan State Medical University

INTRODUCTORY TEXT

TOPICAL VOCABULARY

1. Internal medicine – внутренние болезни

2. Obstetrics – акушерство

3. research – научное исследование

4. Curriculum – программа обучения

5. training -подготовка

6. applicant – абитуриент

7. annual – ежегодный

8. graduate – выпускник

9. term – срок обучения; семестр

10. scientific work – научная работа

11. to be founded – быть основанным

12. useful – полезный

13. to enter – поступать

14. skilled – квалифицированный

15. well-educated – образованный

16. famous – известный

17. education – образование

18. higher education – высшее образование

19. secondary education – среднее образование

We study at Kazan State Medical University. It was very difficult to enter this university. Now we are first year students. And we want to be skilled and well-educated pharmaceutists.

Kazan State Medical University is very old and famous in Russia. It was founded in 1814 as a faculty of Kazan University. Among the founders were surgeon A. Vishnevsky, physiologists P. Lesgaft and N. Mislavsky. In 1930 it was reorganized into an independent medical institute. There were six departments at the Medical faculty: Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Surgery, Internal Medicine and Obstetrics.

Today Kazan State Medical University is recognized as the Tatarstan’s largest medical center of education and research. It has seven faculties: the Faculty of General Medicine, the Pediatrics, the Faculty of Preventive Medicine, the Stomatological Faculty, the Pharmaceutical Faculty, the Nursing Faculty and the Faculty of Social Workers. Future doctors, certified nurses, pharmacists and social workers are trained there. There is a six-year course at the faculty of General Medicine and Pediatric faculty as well as the faculty of Preventive Medicine. At the other the students are trained for five years.

Educational program consists of the general and professional training. The academic year is divided into two terms: autumn term and spring term. At the end of each term students pass examinations. Between the terms they have vacations.

There are many lecture halls and classrooms in the university. During the lectures we get a lot of interesting and useful information. There are two libraries with reading halls in the university. We can read books, text-books, newspapers and magazines there.

The University is staffed with the highly-qualified professors. Scientific research plays an important role in the students’ life. Annual students’ scientific conferences have become traditional.

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