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Smolensk State Medical University — institution located in the city of Smolensk.

Formerly known as:


 * Smolensk State Medical Institute (SSMI)
 * Smolensk State Medical Academy (SSMA)

History
The shortage of doctors was exacerbated by the First World War and the Civil War, the aftermath of the revolutionary events of 1917. By the beginning of 1920, as the civil war was coming to an end, between 30% and 80% of medical personnel had died on the Eastern Front alone. In addition, of the 10,000 doctors in the Army Sanitary Service, more than 4,000 were suffering from typhoid fever, of whom more than 800 died.

The position of Smolensk Governorate from 1914 to 1920 remained extremely hard. In addition to food, fuel and transportation problems, epidemics of typhoid and typhoid fever, syphilis and other infectious diseases were a major threat. The shortage of medical personnel, especially doctors, has been exacerbated. From the autumn of 1917 here, first on a voluntary basis and then on the occasion of the October 1918 decree on universal conscription, mass mobilization of the population in the Red Army began. Four mobilizations during 1918-1920 resulted in health institutions being left with virtually no doctors.

The establishment of the Institute

 * On April 4, 1920, the People’s Commissariat of Health Care of the RSFSR decided to organize a medical faculty in the Smolensk State University (SSU).
 * On August 8, 1924, by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars, the medical faculty of the SSU was included in the network of higher educational establishments of the country. In December of the same year, he was transferred to public funding and became the Smolensk State Medical Institute.

In 1941, SSMI became one of the largest medical universities in the country. In two faculties (medical and paediatrics) there were more than 2,600 students. The Smolensk Dental Institute was established in 1936.

Faculties
The University has a Centre for Pre-university Studies and 8 faculties:


 * Faculty of General Medicine
 * Faculty of Pediatrics
 * Faculty of Dentistry
 * Faculty of Pharmaceutics
 * Faculty of Clinical Psychology and Social Work
 * Faculty of Higher Nursing
 * Faculty for Foreign Students
 * Faculty of Post Graduate Studies