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Omsk State Medical University is one of the oldest universities of Siberia; it was founded in 1920 as the Medical Faculty of the Siberian Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Zoology which enrolled 186 students. In 1921, West Siberian State Medical Institute was established; and Prof. N.K. IVANOV-EMIN was assigned as the first rector. In 1924, it was renamed into Omsk State Medical Institute. In autumn 1931, the Maternity and Child Protection Faculty was established which later was reorganized into the Pediatric Faculty. The Sanitary and Hygienic Faculty was founded in 1938 (now it is the Preventive Medicine Faculty). In 1957, there was the admission for the Dentistry Faculty. The fifth faculty established was the Faculty of Pharmacy which started to enroll students in 2002. In 1994, the Institute was granted with the status of State Medical Academy. On the 5th of December 2011, Omsk Medical College was affiliated with Omsk State Medical Academy. In 2015, the Academy was assigned with the status of University.

The University curriculum is designed to ensure students meet the necessary standards in terms of knowledge, skills and attitudes that new doctors should have. Its distinctiveness is that it has been designed to allow diversity and integration. Diversity is intended to mean allowing students with different personalities, aspirations, preferences, learning styles and strengths and weaknesses to be successful, to enjoy their undergraduate time, and to be able to build on these experiences during postgraduate training. It is recognized that career options for doctors have never been greater, and although the Academy’s primary aim is to deliver competent trainees. This enables students to devise a ‘pathway’ that concentrates on research, community practice, a particular specialty, or on breadth and general experience. Clinical work is the most essential part in the medical education. Clinical Departments are located at 35 key largest hospitals in Omsk: All leading hospitals are perfect places for professional training of students. Hospital facilities are corresponded to the requirements for the education process according to declared professional programs. The faculty of the University has paid a great attention to development and adoption into clinical practice modern alternative technologies, such as up-to-date preventive measures, new diagnostic techniques, and new treatment modes. OSMU faculty has been working together with physicians, providing consultations in severe and complicated cases, later discussing these cases on the general planned meetings. Professors of the clinical departments have been scientific advisors of the physicians during their research. The results of such productive and collaborative activity are joint articles in scientific journals, and participation in Russian and International Conferences and Congresses.

The Clinical Skills Center is an educational and assessment resource designed to support the learning objectives of OSMU. Based in the Clinical Performance Education Center, the Clinical Skills Center recruits and trains simulated patients (SPs) for instructional and assessment exercises. We are dedicated to providing quality instructional and assessment programs to medical students, residents and other health care professionals. The mission of the Clinical Skills Center is to facilitate the general patient-centered medical curricula with sound educational activities. Using simulated patients, these activities are designed to enhance, reinforce, and/or certify clinical skills within the undergraduate curriculum of the University. In addition, the Clinical Skills Center hosts Graduate Medicine Education, and Continuing Medical Education in specific clinical research, learning and assessment initiatives.

Current library stock includes about 600 000 volumes including periodicals, e-editions in medicine, natural sciences, social and humanitarian science and belles letters. There are volumes in specialties of general medicine, pediatrics, preventive medicine, dentistry and pharmacy in the library stock. The library receives 262 both Russian and foreign periodicals, 150 of them belong to medical sphere. There are editions in Latin, German, English, French and others in foreign literature stock. The library provides the service for students and teaching and academic staff using all arsenals of library forms and techniques. Promotion of new editions is realized by pictorial and oral means to assist in studying process, research activities and contemporary issues. Over 100 book exhibitions and various literary and musical evenings are organized annually. Informational and bibliographical services are provided in all subdivisions of the library. The library offers both traditional and electronic reference media, bibliographical editions, library catalogs and card-registers, databases for any information retrieval.