SchChat - School | Odessa National Medic University

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Odessa National Medical University is a member of the International and European Universities Association. Odessa National Medical University extensively uses latest scientific techniques and practices of best universities of the world in the teaching process. This great contribution is due to close links with leading universities and academic centres : Washington University (USA), Polish Academy of Medicine (Poland), Milan University (Italy), Institute of Experimental Immunology (Switzerland), the International Fund of Hippocrates (Greece), A. Schweitzer International Medical Academy (Poland), Russian Heart Scientific-productive Complex (Russia), etc. Today the Odessa National Medical University is having eight faculties and 58 theoretical and 45 Clinical departments where about 9000 students are studying. Among them, there are more than 1900 international students from 52 different countries. More than 250 foreign students are also studying at Postgraduate Education and Clinical Residency programs. Foreign students study at Odessa National Medical University in English, Russian and in the Ukrainian Language. The teaching staff of ONMU consists of 106 Professors and 410 Ph.D.-Associate Professors. Among them, there are 20 Academicians of State Academies of Ukraine, 42 members of foreign academies, 39 honored workers of science and technology of Ukraine, 10 winners of state and other prestigious international awards. This is the highest number of Academicians working in any one Medical University of Ukraine, USSR and in whole Europe. Odessa National Medical University has a modern physical infrastructure for teaching, research, and medical diagnostic work. This facilitates the implementation of the educational process and clinical practice with latest advanced technologies in medical science, including endoscopy, laparoscopy, transplantology, tissue therapy, genetic medicine, and a lot of others. In the recent years, ONMU created the unique scientific research and medical departments, which include ONMU dental clinic, ONMU multidisciplinary University Clinic, Research Institute of Molecular-Genetics and Cellular Medicine, Clinical Research Institute of Biophysics. With the help of Ministry of Health of Ukraine at Odessa National Medical University, the following Diagnostics centers were opened: Cardiorhematology, Eye Microsurgery, Synthesis, Endoscopy and Laser Surgery, Pediatric Cardiology, Toxicology and others. ONMU has a well-established library with computer rooms and electronic library and has 1140 seats. Students are issued with a ticket for a junior and senior year and they can use library books any time. The “modern publishing and printing complex” of Odessa National Medical University is publishing four scientific journals licensed WAC Ukraine, books and manuals, authored by university scientists. Reference Books series “Library students – physician” is published in Ukrainian, Russian and English. Over the years ONMU has published 170 titles of textbooks with the total circulation of 205,000 copies. Odessa National Medical University is the only University in Ukraine having Computer Park for students and staff members, which is having 680 computers with internet connections. Students are allowed to use them freely anytime. Educational work is a priority of the Odessa National Medical University. Educational work is carried out on the base curriculum adapted to the Bologna system and are recognized by Ministry of Health of Ukraine. This provides a balanced fundamental, special and humanitarian training at the intersection of different branches of a medical learning process, implemented testing science, credit-module system, remote learning method, system independent expert assessment of student learning. Today Odessa National Medical University is having 12 academic buildings with total area of 27,700 square meters, 608 classrooms, offices, and laboratories. There are six dormitories/hostels with 3 thousand students living places. ONMU library fund is 8000 thousand books. More than 110 years the Odessa National Medical University has trained about 90,000 doctors, 700 Ph.D. doctors and about 4 thousand candidates of Sciences. Among them, there are more than 10,000 physicians and more than 200 candidates are citizens of foreign countries.