The overall aim of the school is to provide the town and the region with medical personnel having secondary vocational education.

Training programs offered:

 for students with secondary education:

• General Medicine — 3 years and 10 months, qualification of a healthcare professional (feldsher)
• Nursing - 2 years and 10 months, qualification of a nurse
• Obstetrics - 2 years and 10 months, qualification of an obstetrician
• Preventive dentistry — 2 years and 10 months, qualification of a dental hygienist
• Prosthetic dentistry — 2 years and 10 months, qualification of a dental technician
• Adapted physical education — 2 years and 10 months, qualification of an adopted physical education teacher
• Nursing - 2 years and 10 months; for those who are being trained asSisters of Charity" cooperatively with the Church and medico-prophylactic institutions.

for students with compulsory education:

Nursing — 3 years and 10 months, qualification of a nurse

Adapted physical education — 3 years and 10 months, qualification of an adapted physical teacher

professional retraining for the professionals with

• a basic degree in Obstetrics or Nursing to get a higher degree in General Medicine — 10 months, qualification of a professional healthcare
• a basic degree in Nursing to get a higher degree in Nursing — 10 months, qualification of a nurse
• a degree in Dentistry to get a degree in Preventive dentistry — 5 months, qualification of a dental hygienist
• a degree in Dentistry to get a degree in Prosthetic dentistry — 10 months,qualification of a dental technician.

The school implements a full-time academic program. It offers professional retraining for the specialists with basic secondary medical education to get the higher one.

The specialists in nursing, obstetrics can get the second degree of Family Nurse Practioner (nurse, feldsher) attending full-time and evening courses.

At present 80 permanent teachers including 3 candidates of sciences work at school and 652 students study there.

It is possible to get education either for free or on a contract basis.

The medical school was founded in 1869 when on the initiative of local Simbirsk's physicians a feldsher's training school by the governorate hospital was opened.

The four-storeyed building is situated on the picturesque bank of the Sviyaga river. There are 46 well-equipped classrooms for theoretical and practical classes, 2 computer rooms (to learn how to use a computer and control the classes), 4 lecture rooms, a gymnasium, ski lodge, summer sports ground.

In the pre-clinical practice classrooms manipulative skills are gained on dummies and models that very accurately imitate a human's body and with the use of special devices to check the procedure sequence of their actions.

The students can make full use of the school library, which contains about 86 copies of course and fiction books. With the school having been joined the Institute of Medicine, Ecology and Physical Education of Ulyanovsk State University, medical school students have the access to the whole university library system.

Annually the students take part in an inner school competitionProfessional Excellence" and among the secondary medical educational institutions of the region as well.

Nearby the medical school has a comfortable dormitory for its staff members.

A great number of events are organized for the students ranging fromPosvyashcheniye" (Matriculation),Allo, mi ishchem talanti" («Helo, we are looking for talents») toVipusk" (Graduation). Not only the freshmen, but also the sophomores and junior students readily participate in the whole-school events.

The medical school comprises 7 cyclic discipline committees. 80 permanent and 33 part-time teachers control the education process.

The school has formed a staff of high-qualified teachers most of whom are the teachers of the highest degree and first grade and have worked there for more than 20 years.

The school is training its own professional personnel:

• 3 teachers have the degree of a Candidate of Medical Sciences
• 2 teachers defended their master's theses in 2005
• 7 people are getting post-graduate education and studying in Ulyanovsk State University
• 2 teachers graduated from the Institute of Nursing Training of Samara State Medical University
• 1 teacher is being trained as a nurse manager
• 7 teachers are the high achievers of public health

Moreover, the school constantly works on the teachers' professional development with the use of different teaching methods.

For further information call the director's office  +7 (8422)40-24-24

E-mail: ulsu-mk@mail.ru

Office hours — Monday — Friday, 8.00–16.30; lunch break — 12.00–12.30

Certificates of studentship are given by the academic secretary on Tuesday and Thursday from 8.00 to 16.30