Northern State Medical University

Founded in 1932 by decree of the Council of People's Commissars on the formation of the Arkhangelsk State Medical Institute as a training base for the health of the European North of Russia. In 1935, the Department of Physical Education and Medical Rehabilitation, headed by Professor G.I. Krasnoselsky, was created in the ASMI. In 1994, the AGMI was transformed into the Arkhangelsk State Medical Academy (ASMA); in 2000, the ASMA, in turn, became the Northern State Medical University (SSMU).[3]

The university trains personnel for the Arctic region of Russia. In the framework of social partnership agreements were signed with the government of the Arkhangelsk region, the administration of the Nenets Autonomous District, health ministries of the Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Kaliningrad, Novgorod regions, the Republic of Karelia and Komi, the Department of Health of the Vologda region.

In addition to training young personnel, the university actively implements continuous professional education and implements additional education programs using innovative methods, including electronic, distance and simulation learning technologies.[4]

Northern State Medical University is a scientific and educational center for the development and implementation of health and social work projects in the Arctic and the Barents-Euro-Arctic region. The university has an International School of Public Health accepted as a member of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER).

From 1993 to 2012, the Rector of SMMU was Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Pavel Ivanovich Sidorov. Since April 17, 2014, Lubov Gorbatova, doctor of medical sciences, professor, has been the rector of the SGMU.

Educational activities at the university are conducted in 5 specialties of secondary and 18 specialties of higher professional education, programs of postgraduate education (postgraduate - 35, internship - 28, residency - 66 specialties); programs of additional professional education (professional retraining and professional development on the profile of the curriculum of the university). Total number of faculties - 11; total number of departments - 40.[5]

• Medical Faculty
• Pediatric Faculty
• Faculty of Dentistry
• International Department of General Medicine
• Pharmaceutical faculty
• Medical and Preventive Medicine and Medical Biochemistry Faculty
• Faculty of Clinical Psychology, Social Work and Adaptive Physical Education
• Faculty of Economics and Management
• Social Faculty of Mental Health
• Advanced Training and Professional Retraining Faculty
• Faculty of Nursing