Tver State Medical Academy

Region: Tver Country: Russia

Welcome to our medical academy, an institution replete with tradition, values, enthusiasm, quality and international prestige.

Our educational model is student-oriented. Opportunities to learn for yourself and to participate in a research project are highly recommended. Throughout your medical training you will witness many very rich opportunities to exchange opinions and ideas with classmates from different countries, thus increasing your awareness of cultural diversity and placing you on the correct tract to treat patients of different cultures.

In our renowned Program of Medicine in the Community, opportunities to increase your clinical skills abound. Your participation in supporting the underserved population will be enormously appreciated and of immense benefit to you. You will be one of the foreign students who develop, practice and master bilingual skills while also developing skills related to humanism, professionalism and altruism.

The Tver State Medical Academy works arduously to assure that at the end of your training you will be a physician with a special profile: a knowledgeable, dutiful, clinician, communicator, researcher, and long-term learner for the benefit of your community.

Cultural Department of Russian Embassy in India invites applications for M.B.B.S/ B.D.S & PG COURSES to TSMA.

The history of the Tver State Medical Academy opens up in 1902 when the courses for dental students were arranged. In 1936 the Leningrad Dental Institute was founded. In 1954 by the decision of the Soviet government the Institute was transferred from Leningrad to the city of Kalinin. In 1986 the Institute was awarded the Order of People's Friendship. In 1994 after the renaming of Kalinin to Tver, the Institute was also renamed and got the status of the Academy

Russia, a land of great scholars, has been a leading centre of culture, science and education in Europe for centuries. The country of Pushkin, Toistoi, Checkov, Mendeleyev, Pavlov attracts people all over the world for education. Now Russian Universities are all open for international students and the graduates of Russian Universities are in demand in western countries.

Russia is a very large country and is situated in two continents of the world: Europe and Asia. There are all climatic zones except tropical one. Russia has large population, they speak different language but Russian is the most spoken language.

Knowledge and the practical skills, received by students, along with the international exposure in this Academy, permit them to seek various opportunities in many countries like USA, Canada, England etc.

For more than 70 years the Tver State Medical Academy has been playing a leading role in the development of medical science and training of medical practitioners and scientists. It is always among the top 10 Medical Educational Institutions according to the annual official rating of the 48 Russian Medical Educational Institutions. Today it is the largest medical scientific, research and educational centre, noted for its extensive clinical and laboratory base and a brilliant teaching staff. The Academy possesses a complex of buildings designed for practical classes, lectures, laboratory studies, research work and auxiliary services.

The Tver State Medical Academy is a public educational institution and operates under supervision of the Ministry of Health and Social Development and Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation (license № 282451, certificate № 1358).

The TSMA has 6 faculties:

Faculty of General Medicine
Faculty of Dental Medicine
Faculty of Pediatrics
Pharmaceutical Faculty
Faculty of Advanced Nursing Education
Faculty of Postgraduate Studies

Rector of the Tver State Medical Academy is Prof. M. N. Kalinkin. President of the Tver State Medical Academy is Prof. B. N. Davidov.

The Tver State Medical Academy is a home for 4700 students simultaneously. Every third student in the Academy is a foreign national. The Academy consists of 63 theoretical and clinical departments. It occupies 6000 beds in 10 various hospitals, including specialized hospitals for oncology, tuberculosis, infectious, skin and sexual transmitted diseases. The Academy owns dental clinic of more than 200 chairs, the clinic considers being one of the best and advanced in the country.

The Academy provides training of specialists not only for Тver and Tver Oblast but also for other regions of Russia - Tula, Bryansk, Novgorod, Pskov, Moscow, Kaluga, Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Vladimir, Murmansk, Vologda, Karelia.

The Tver State Medical Academy is officially recognized by the UN agencies for health care and education. For more than 47 years (since 1962) it has been training specialists for 57 countries of the world. Today teaching in the Academy is conducted in Russian or English.

One of the main aspects of work of the Academy is its clinical activity. Clinical departments of the Academy are integrated to the structure of municipal and regional health care institutions. Main surgical, therapeutic and dental departments in Tver are headed by the Academy professors and associate professors.