Facts & Figures
Siberian State Medical University (SibMed) is among the TOP-3 best medical universities in Russia. In 2017 SibMed obtained the status of the only flagship medical university in Russia. Moreover, the University was selected by the Government of the Russian Federation to take part in the implementation of the project aimed at increasing education exports in Russia. It is remarkable that SibMed is one of the 2 specialized universities selected to work on this project.
SibMed is one of the few institutions in Russia that has its own multidisciplinary university hospital. This affects the teaching staff and student body to a large extent. The teaching staff consists of 80% of specialists with academic degrees and titles and 50% practicing doctors. Our students have a unique opportunity to apply the knowledge gained in the classroom at the clinics. What is more, the university hospital is not only the place where research and education is conducted but also it welcomes more than 100 thousand patients from all over Russia annually.
In addition to the multidisciplinary hospital, SibMed students can receive training at the modern simulation center, which is one of the two centers in the Russian Federation that has received accreditation by the European Society for Simulation in Medicine (SESAM).
The Research Library of the Siberian State Medical University is the only publicly accessible medical library in the Tomsk Region, the largest specialized library in Siberia. It is regarded to be the best library in Russia among medical universities under the annual libraries ranking compiled by the Academy of Evidence-Based Medicine in 2016.
In 2015 SibMed became the first medical university in Russia to be accredited by the Skolkovo Technopark.