The Department's staff consists of 4 professors, 10 associate professors, 11 assistant professors and technical staff

The Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases of the Faculty of General Medicine offers a number of courses, elective courses and optional courses for the students of a "General Medicine" major:

For 2nd year students:

• Introductory practice
• Diagnostic Profile Practice
• Fundamentals of practical skills of diagnostic profile

For 3rd year students:

• Propaedeutics of internal diseases,
• Optional course Laboratory and instrumental diagnostics in the clinic of internal diseases,
• Nursing practice

For 4th year students:

• Doctor's assistant practice

For 6th year students:

• Elective course "Functional diagnostics in the activity of a general practitioner. Clinical (rational) approach".

The Department is a training facility for highly qualified personnel in residency and postgraduate studies in the specialties "Therapy", "Cardiology", "Functional methods of diagnosis".

In addition to the main course, the department offers several elective courses for residents:

• Kidney damage in cardiac patients: a differentiated approach to diagnosis and therapy,
• Nephrology: features of the management of patients on dialysis in the clinic of internal diseases,
• Functional methods of diagnosis in cardiology,
• Functional methods of diagnosis (for general practitioners)
• Diagnosis of rare diseases of the cardiovascular system
• Ultrasound monitoring in patients in intensive care

Since 2023, for residents-internists of the 2nd year of study, as part of obtaining a second specialty, the department conducts training in ultrasound diagnostics and functional methods of diagnosis.

The Department is a training facility for postgraduate studies in the field of "Clinical Medicine" in the specialties "internal diseases", "cardiology".

Currently, more than 1100 students of the 3rd and 2nd year, 38 clinical residents from various regions of the Russian Federation, as well as foreign countries, 6 graduate students.  Also, 5 applicants for the scientific degree of Candidate of Sciences are assigned to the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases to prepare a dissertation without mastering the training programs for scientific and pedagogical personnel in graduate school.

Every year, residents and students who attend the scientific society of the department receive prizes at scientific conferences, student scientific forums.

In recent years, a lot of work has been carried out on upgrading and improving the efficiency of propaedeutic therapy courses in accordance with the modern requirements of the higher medical school and contemporary technological opportunities. First, the structure of practical classes was significantly revised. More time was allotted to independent work of students with patients and improving examination methods. The course program includes two semester tests revising students’ practical skills using control photos and audio materials illustrating certain pathological symptoms, as well as simulator training. Written tests using an automated educational system are widely employed. Students are expected to present a course project — an examination medical case.

Publishing plays a significant role in the work of the Department. The staff of the Department are the authors of a number of fundamental study guides, educational films, interactive video materials and textbooks on patient research methods, which many medical universities in the country are used to work with.

Medical work of the Department is carried out at 11 multidisciplinary and well-equipped hospitals — Municipal clinical hospital No. 31 named after academician G.M. Savelieva, Municipal clinical hospital named after V.P. Demikhov,  St. Alexy Central Clinical Hospital,  Krasnogorsk’s municipal hospital, Main Military Clinical Hospital named after academician N.N. Burdenko of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation (branch office #1), Mytishchi municipal clinical hospital, Moscow polyclinic No. 212, Moscow polyclinic No. 8, Moscow polyclinic No. 115,  Polyclinic of the Russian University of Transport, Clinic «K+31. West».  

Department staff, together with hospital residents, supervises patients in therapeutic and cardiological departments. In addition, each year the Department staff counsels about 2,000 patients of the other departments. The Department is engaged in the regular check-ups, clinical analyses of patients, consultations, clinical conferences, medical hospital councils with the staff of the clinical bases of the department.

The staff of the department on the basis of GKB No. 31 named after academician G.M. Savelyeva specializes in the management of cardiological patients, including those with arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, diabetes mellitus, cardiorenal syndrome, dyslipidemia, patients after cardiac surgery (coronary bypass surgery, coronary artery stenting, prosthetic heart valves), etc. At the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, hereditary hyperlipoprotenin(a)emia, amyloidosis (including hereditary and wild type ATTR-amyloidosis) and other infiltrative diseases (Fabry's disease, sarcoidosis, mucopolysaccharidosis, etc.) are observed. On 17.10.2022, the staff of the department Reznik E.V., Nguyen T.L. received certificate No. 20226225113 on the state registration of the database in accordance with the classification of infiltrative heart diseases MORAL-STAGE.

For many years, the staff of the department has been actively involved in clinical research to find new drugs for the treatment of pathology of internal organs, including myocardial infarction, heart failure, diabetes mellitus, hyperkalemia, etc. Currently, a phase III clinical trial is being conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a new drug for the treatment of dyslipidemia, hereditary hyperlipoprotein(a)pathology. The staff of the department participated in many registers of the European Society of Cardiology (EORP — EURObservational Research Program), including patients with myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, myocardial infarction without ST segment elevation, heart failure, atrial fibrillation.