Krasnoyarsk State Medical University
education organization in Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Professor V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky (KrasSMU) (KrasGMU) (Krasnoyarsk Medical Academy) (Russian: Красноярский государственный медицинский университет имени профессора В. Ф. Войно-Ясенецкого) is a public university located in the city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, and founded in 1942.
History
The Krasnoyarsk State Medical Institute (KSMI) was formed on November 21, 1942, by the decision of the All-Union Committee for Higher School Affairs under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR by merging the Voronezh Dental Institute evacuated to Krasnoyarsk, parts of the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute and the 2nd Leningrad Medical Institute, as well as the Leningrad Pediatric Institute and the Leningrad Dental Institute.
During the Great Patriotic War, the first students of the university were taught by surgeon, professor V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky.
There were fifty-one doctors in the first graduation of KSMI students.
In 1958, a pediatric faculty was added to the only training program - general medicine. In 1961, the Faculty of Pediatrics was opened, in 1978 - the Faculty of Dentistry.
In 1992–2013, the Faculty of Higher Nursing Education operated at KSMI.
In 1995, the institute was renamed the Krasnoyarsk State Medical Academy (KrasGMA).
In 2006, the Faculty of Pharmacy was opened, in 2010 - the Faculty of Clinical Psychology, in 2011 - the Faculty of Medical Cybernetics.
In 2007, the Medical Academy was named after Professor Valentin Feliksovich Voyno-Yasenetsky, and in 2008 - the status of a medical university.
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Professor V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University is situated in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the administrative center of the Krasnoyarsk Region, the second largest region of the Russian Federation.
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