The Rostov state medical university
- one of the oldest high schools of the country. The High School has
prepared more than 30000 doctors, in it has passed advanced training
courses more than 35 thousand doctors, and has prepared more than 200
doctors and 1000 candidates of sciences, among which about 100 young
scientists are from 19 countries of three continents. Founded in the
year 1915 as a Medical faculty of Donskoi University and in 1930 it
became an independent medical institute, and now a medical university
by itself. In the 64 different
departments the academic process is set rolling by more than 600
teaching staff, of which 70 are professors, doctors of science and 420
candidates of science. Annually 4000 students study in the institute
and nearly 3000 doctors specialize to increase their qualification.