The Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy (NGMA) is a higher medical education institution in Nizhny Novgorod, founded on March 20, 1920.[1] During the Soviet period it was called the Gorky Medical Institute named after S. M. Kirov (GMI), and later the Nizhny Novgorod Medical Institute.[1] On February 2, 2018, it was reorganized into the Privolzhsky Research Medical University (PRMU).[1] Legal address: Nizhny Novgorod, Minin and Pozharsky Square, 10/1.[1]

History

The institution was founded on March 20, 1920; the official opening ceremony took place on March 21, 1920.[1] During the Soviet period the institute bore the name of S. M. Kirov and was located in the City of Gorky.[1] One of the academy's buildings stands on Minin and Pozharsky Square, in a building constructed in 1916 for the office of the Steamship Company Volga. Among the institution's graduates and staff is Academician Nikolay Nikolayevich Blokhin, future president of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, who gave lectures to the institute's students. Among the academy's distinguished professors is Evgeniya Pavlovna Kamysheva, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, and academician of the Euro-Asian Academy of Medical Sciences. On February 2, 2018, the academy was reorganized into the Privolzhsky Research Medical University.

The academy's museum holds personal documents of the faculty, a small collection of documents on the history of medicine in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, and recorded recollections of well-known physicians, including participants in the Second World War; the academy's archive held current administrative records and personnel files, which, after a 15-year retention period, were transferred to the Central Archive of Nizhny Novgorod Region.[4][1] Since March 2, 2018, the university's rector has been Nikolay Nikolayevich Karyakin, Doctor of Medical Sciences and neurosurgeon.[1]

Structure and Activities

PRMU trains qualified medical personnel, provides postgraduate education and continuing professional development for physicians, and conducts research and scientific-methodological work.[1] The university comprises 7 institutes and 59 departments, with about 3,000 staff members, including 2 corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 150 doctors of sciences, and 360 candidates of sciences.[1] The university's faculties are: general medicine, pediatrics, preventive medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy, as well as faculties of network educational programs, international medical education, continuing professional education, and training of highly qualified specialists.[1] PRMU is home to the P. K. Anokhin House of Scientific Collaboration, which carries out science outreach and educational work with schoolchildren in grades 5–11.[1] More than 5,900 students are enrolled at the university (2020), of whom about 1,200 are citizens of 60 countries.[1]

Rankings

In the Forbes ranking of the best Russian universities, PRMU placed 89th in 2020 and rose to 54th in 2021, becoming third in the country among medical universities.[1] On April 27, 2022, Times Higher Education (THE) published its THE 2022 University Impact Rankings, in which PRMU scored 42.7 out of 100 in a group of 1,406 higher education institutions worldwide (in 2021: 32.5 points in a group of 1,117 universities).[1] According to the international SCImago 2022 ranking, PRMU places 695th among 8,084 research organizations worldwide and 29th among Russian universities, ahead of all other Nizhny Novgorod universities; in terms of social impact, it ranks 248th in the world.[1] In 2022, the university entered the international "Three University Missions" ranking (in the 801–900 range among 1,800 universities worldwide), and also placed 86th in the RAEX ranking "100 Best Universities in Russia" and 11th in the RAEX subject ranking for "Medicine."[1] In 2023, PRMU entered the top 10% of the world's best universities and took second place among Russian medical universities (after Sechenov University) in the global aggregated best.edu ranking, which takes into account positions in 12 international and 2 Russian rankings.[1]

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  1. opentextnn.ru — Open Text — The academy's museum holds personal documents of the professorial and teaching staff and a small collection of documents on the history of medicine in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, (archive)
  1. Wikipedia (ru) — Volga Research Medical University (archive)
  2. akvobr.ru — Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy (archive)
  3. pimunn-clinika.ru — About the Clinic (archive)