Lugansk State Medical University

About The University
Lugansk is one of the largest cities of Ukraine, an important scientific and cultural center. State establishment Lugansk state medical university [LSMU] is a modern institution of higher education with rich traditions.

State establishment Lugansk state medical university was founded in the year of 1956. State establishment Lugansk state medical university is one of the oldest and leading medical higher institutions of Ukraine and former USSR. High level of qualification allows graduates of the University to work successfully in many countries of the world, to achieve great success in science and practical public health services. Among them are scientists, heads of public health service, honoured doctors.

State establishment Lugansk state medical university provides high quality education to our students who are looking for quality education at an affordable course fees. State establishment Lugansk state medical university has a good team of long term experienced lecturers in providing quality education to the students.

State establishment Lugansk state medical university is a higher educational instuition of the top accreditation level (conferred by the State Accreditation Committee of Ukraine). At the State establishment Lugansk state medical university there are six faculties and a preparatory department. The State establishment Lugansk state medical university trains specialists along the following education / qualification levels: Under graduate, Junior specialists, specialists, Masters for the following specialties:

State establishment Lugansk state medical university is attested according to the highest (the fourth) Level of accreditation. The University activities conform with The Constitution of Ukraine, Ukrainian legislation, acts issued by the President and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Decrees of the Health Department and Education Department of Ukraine, the University Rules.

State establishment Lugansk state medical university prepares specialists in 172 medical specialities. Good facilities, high qualification level of the teaching staff, scientific and methodical provision led Luganks State Medical University to one of the leading places in the country.

400 teachers, among them 63 doctors of sciences, 273 candidates of sciences, including five Honored Science and Technique Workers of Ukraine, one Honored Worker of public education of Ukraine, two Honored doctors of Ukraine, two Laureates of State prize of Ukraine carry out pedagogical, scientific, medical and educational work at 48 departments.

State establishment Lugansk state medical university has very good facilities. There are five building for theoretical classes and a wide net of clinical bases of medical institutions of Lugansk, which are equipped at the level corresponding to world standards. Today State establishment Lugansk state medical university is a complex of buildings designed for practical classes, lectures, laboratory studies, library, research work and auxiliary services, covering. The total area owned by the State establishment Lugansk state medical university is 70466 sq.m: within it the area of study and laboratory premises is 33598 sq. mts. The teaching area per one student is 15 sq.m. Other clinical bases used by the State establishment Lugansk state medical university are administered by the Government healthcare department.

Organization of the medical process and methods of teaching at State establishment Lugansk state medical university are built according to modern demands and world experience. The State establishment Lugansk state medical university has introduced the conception of continuous medical education that in all parameters corresponds to all world standards, giving an opportunity to get qualification of different professional levels from Bachelor to Doctor of medicine.

The State establishment Lugansk state medical university activities cover a wide range of subjects, all aimed at shaping a global University policy. Thus, educational policy, quality assurance, University management, legislation and international contacts all fall within the scope of the University's competence. State establishment Lugansk state medical university constantly keeps in touch with its graduates: Many of them have become highly qualified doctors, known scientists, health service managers and political figures in their mother countries.

The Lugansk state medical University's long experience in training of foreign specialists, highly qualified teaching staff and modern facilities - all guarantee high level of theoretical and practical training to the students of the University.

Main levels of education are Undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses. Training at State establishment Lugansk state medical university is carried out in the Ukrainian, Russian and English languages.

Faculty of General Medicine
The Medical course at the Lugansk State Medical University takes six years and leads to MD (Doctor of Medicine) or MBBS. The medical faculty is founded in 1956. In the under graduate program, during six years of study the students learn different subjects from fundamental subjects disciplines to special medical.

Medicineis the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

Contemporary medicine applies health science, biomedical research, and medical technology to diagnoseand treat injury and disease, typically through medication, surgery, or some other form of therapy. The word medicine is derived from the Latin ars medicina, meaning the art of healing.

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 satisfying of all professions and we believe that the Lugansk State Medical University is an ideal place to earn your medical education.

We believe students are enrolling in Lugansk State Medical University 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 health care delivery in our nation has a bright future.

The Lugansk State Medical University 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 University has terrific people and programs and another to prove it.

Admission to the medical faculty takes place after conclusion of a contract. Foreigners learn in group of seven eight students along with local 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 to raise their of knowledge in the departments. All six years of the program are important and all must be passed successfully before students are permitted to graduate.

The medium of instruction in the Medical faculty is English and Russian language. The Ministry of education and Ministry of Public health, Ukraine approved the of the medical faculty. Many countries accept the Lugansk State Medical University's degree.

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 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 specialisation 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 training in their chosen specialty.

Faculty of Pharmacy
The pharmaceutical faculty was inaugurated by the Ministry for Education and science for Ukraine. The faculty began training specialists' pharmacists of general direction "pharmaceutics". At the pharmacological faculty the if for five academic years.

The student acquire 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 diploma of pharmacist. The faculty trains the students for work at the instutions of pharmacy and also for research work.

A powerful educational methodical base is being created for training highly qualified specialists. There are such departments are as the pharmacognosy, Biology and Genetics department and chemopharmaceutic 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 equipments, reagents and textbooks.

Faculty of Nursing
The faculty of nursing practice trains medical nurses - bachelors with higher medical education. The applicants with medical education (those who have finished medical instutions 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 diploma of bachelor. Their qualification allows to occupy administrative posts and work as medical nurses of different profile.

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

The 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.

Admission Requirements
1. Application to the name of the Rector of the University with request for enrollment for the studies at the University on the commercial basis;
2. Completed application form (including full name, date of birth, passport number, citizenship, permanent address, phone, fax and e-mail of applicant);
3. Original of Transcript of high school or college/university education with complete listing of courses and attained, together with Originals of all diplomas, certifications and licenses (should be translated into Ukrainian language and legalized by the the Ukraine embassy in your country).
4. Original of Birth Certificate (should be translated into Ukrainian language and legalized by the the Ukraine embassy in your country).
5. Copy of inner page(s) of Passport
6. Results of physical examination (should be translated into Ukrainian language and legalized by the the Ukraine embassy in your country).
7. Results of laboratory test for the presence of the AIDS virus (should be translated into Ukrainian language and legalized by the the Ukraine embassy in your country).
8. 12photographs measuring 3x4 cm each.
9.One Photostat copy of your passport and Ukrainian visa which is issued by the Ukraine embassy.
10.Original Invitation letter.
11.The flight ticket should be to and fro to your home country (i.e., open ticket).

The Tuition Fees for foreign citizens in Ukraine are determined by fixed order of the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economics of Ukraine.

Foreign citizens, who are given with state grants according to the international agreements, general state programs, other international obligations of Ukraine, can be enrolled to the University on the basis of the documents from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine within the limits of state order.

Library
The library of the State establishment Lugansk state medical university, created in 1956, fulfils an important role in organization of many-sided educational process. During 45 years the fund of the library was replenished with new educational and scientific literature. Nowadays it numbers more than 800 thousand volumes.

The State establishment Lugansk state medical universityhas 3 libraries. The library has own 3 separate buildings. One of these libraries is a regional medical library, located at the city center housing more than 700,000 copies of different literature. It has a considerable fund of home and foreign periodicals, author's abstracts and dissertations, a great number of reference and bibliographical literature. Every year about 20 thousand new books come into the library, 400 home and foreign journals are subscribed.

The three remaining libraries, which are located in the University campus, comprise of a short-term book-borrowing library, a long-term book-borrowing library and a computerized library; where one can find literature on line. These libraries contain more than 800,000 copies of different books, from different parts of the world in different languages etc. The electronic reading hall is connected with the University data bank and Internet. The University supplies her students with all the literature necessary for academic purposes.

State establishment Lugansk state medical university library stock includes more than 800 thousand copies of books, journals and theses in the Ukrainian, English, Russian, French and German languages.

The important role in providing students and staff members with the teaching literature belongs to the University's library. The scientific library of the University is an auxiliary for teaching, scientific, informational and culturally enlightening division.

The library work is purposed for building and protecting of book stocks and meeting the readers' needs and the tasks of teaching and research processes with most possible effectiveness. One of the main tasks of the library is supporting the teaching process and the independent work of the students, which requires an effective interaction with the Teaching division, dean's offices and departments. The stock formation sector and the textbook loan system keep the card-catalogue reflecting the extent to which the teaching process is provided with books.

International students
The International Centre was established by the University as part of its commitment to the internationalisation of its programmes and activities. The International center provides a facility and service for the support of foreign students. The Centre comprises a small staff group who network with the University's Academic Departments, Corporate and Student Services.

The Centre provides course advice for potential students, assists with the admission and enrolment of international students and provides ongoing academic, cultural, social and personal support for international students. Whether enquiries are of an educational, personal, legal, social, cultural or financial nature, somebody will be able to assist.
The International center is the focal point for international students. The International center can advise on all matters relating to application, accommodation, admission, fees, immigration, arrival services, orientation and advice on visa requirements, medical insurance and general concerns. This means providing course information, processing your admission application as efficiently as possible and giving advice on living and studying in Lugansk. The International Marketing department is responsible for coordinating the promotion of the University and its courses overseas.

The International Centre was established by the University as part of its commitment to the internationalization of its programmers and activities. The International center provides a facility and service for the support of foreign students. The Centre comprises a small staff group who network with the University's Academic Departments, Corporate and Student Services The Centre provides course advice for potential students, assists with the admission and enrolment of international students and provides ongoing academic, cultural, social and personal support for international students. Whether enquiries are of an educational, personal, legal, social, cultural or financial nature, somebody will be able to assist.

The International centre is the focal point for international students. The International center can advise on all matters relating to application, accommodation, admission, fees, immigration, arrival services, orientation and advice on visa requirements, medical insurance and general concerns. This means providing course information, processing your admission application as efficiently as possible and giving advice on living and studying in Lugansk. The International Marketing department is responsible for coordinating the promotion of the University and its courses overseas. In 2009-2010 academic year the total strength of foreign students is more than 2000 students from 57 countries are studying in the faculties of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and post-graduate course.

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