Chita State Medical Academy
Chita State Institute of Medicine was established in 1953. Chita is the administrative district of Zabaykalsky Krai.
In 1954 was composed the first annual plan of scientific work.
In 1958, the third hostel for students was built and in 1962 – the fourth. Students of the Institute has taken active part in construction of hostels.
From 1963 till 1973 material base of the Academy has been greatly improved. During these years academic departments of Hospital Surgery, Traumatology, Orthopedic Surgery, Military Surgery and Mental Disorder Studies have been created.
In 1974, was opened scientific laboratory for studying Kashin–Beck disease.
In 1995, Chita State Institute of Medicine was renamed to Chita State Academy of Medicine.
In 2002 new dental clinic was build , filled with modern equipment. Usually, students have practice there.
Today, Chita State Academy of Medicine is a modern educational institution, where computer-aided technologies are widely and effectively used while teaching students. Wide research work is being conducted at the Academy.
More than 2500 of students get education here in different directions in accordance with the State Educational Standard. Nowadays, Chita State Academy is the biggest educational research and methodology, diagnostic and treatment center of Eastern Siberia, Trans Baikal and the Far East. The Academy is dynamically developing and holds rightful place among higher educational establishments of the Russian Federation.
Chita State Academy of Medicine has a great academic staff: 292 lecturers, among of them there are 35 Professors and Doctors of Sciences, 157 Associate Professors and Doctors of Sciences and 6 full members and corresponding members of Russian and foreign academies. During the existence of Chita State Academy of Medicine, there have been studying around 20000 of physicians, the majority of the graduates have become brilliant specialists in medical field.
Faculties of Chita State Medical Academy:
- Faculty of General Medicine
- Faculty of Dentistry
- Faculty of Psychology
- Preparatory Department
Some main fields of Postgraduate programs are mentioned below:
- Medicine of urgent conditions
- Therapy
- Dermatology and Venerology
- Infectious Diseases
- Neurology
- Pathological Anatomy
- Psychiatry
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Anaesthesiology
- Traumatology and Orthopaedics
- Ophthalmology
- Urology
- Surgery
- Pediatrics
- Childhood Gynaecology
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Pediatric Surgery
- Hygiene of Children and Teenagers
- General Hygiene
- Public Hygiene
- Occupational Hygiene
- Radiation Hygiene
- Hygiene of Nutrition
- Epidemiology
- Therapeutic Dentistry
- Pediatric Dentistry
- Orthopaedics
- Orthopaedic Dentistry
- Surgical Dentistry
Student Accommodation
Students are offered hostels. There are different types of fully stocked rooms in hostels for students. Boys and girls live separately on different floors. Students can live in triple- and twin- rooms. Bathrooms and kitchens for students are offered on the sharing basis.
Chita City
Chita is a city located about 6,250 km east of Moscow in the south of Eastern Siberia, the administrative center of Zabaykalsky Krai. It is a large industrial and cultural center of the region, as well as a major railway hub.
Chita – Features
The city is called Chita because it is located on the banks of the Chita (Chitinka) River. There are several versions of what the word “chita” means. According to the official version, it is a “river flowing from a wet place.” The City Day of Chita is celebrated on May 31.
The highest place in the city is Mount Chita (1,039 meters), the lowest – 632 meters. In the southwestern outskirts of the city there is Mount Titovskaya Sopka (780 m) – a natural-historical territory and a geological monument of nature.
The climate in Chita is sharply continental. It is also affected by the altitude of the city above sea level – an average of 650 meters. Winter in this city is very cold, with little snow, and long (about 5-6 months). The average January temperature is minus 23.9 degrees Celsius. Snow cover usually forms in late October and melts only in mid-April. Summer is warm and short (about 2.5 months). The average temperature in July is plus 19.6 degrees Celsius.
Chita is one of the sunniest cities in Russia (about 40% more hours with sunshine than in Moscow), similar to such southern cities of Russia as Anapa or Nakhodka.
The environmental situation is generally unfavorable. According to Rosstat, in 2015 and 2016, Chita ranked first in Russia in air pollution. This is largely due to the fact that the city ranks second in Russia after Vladivostok in the number of cars per capita.
Chita International Airport (Kadala) (IATA: HTA, ICAO: UIAA), located 18 km from the city center, is a federal airport, which offers regular flights to such cities as Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, and several others.
Three federal highways pass through Chita: the federal highway R258 “Baikal” Irkutsk – Ulan-Ude – Chita, the federal highway R297 “Amur” Chita – Khabarovsk, the federal highway A350 Chita – Zabaikalsk – the border with China.
Chita is a major railway center on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Public transport includes trolleybuses, buses, and minibuses.
There are more than 400 objects of cultural heritage in Chita: monuments of history, archeology, architecture, urban planning, monumental art. The main group of monuments of architecture and urban planning of Chita belongs to the end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries.
