Academic Chair of Humanities of the Institute of Global Medicine was set in 2014 for the development and implementation of a double degree program with Milan State University for specialty "General Medicine" (31.05.01). As of today, the department is working as a branch of the International Medical School of the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University.

Academic Chair of Humanities conducts the following courses:

— for international students mastering the program "General Medicine"

• Philosophy (1st course)
• Foreign language (1st course)
• Latin language (1st course)
• History (1st course)
• History of medicine (1st course)
• Psychology and pedagogy (1st and 2nd courses)
• Bioethics (2nd course)
• Jurisprudence (2nd course)
• Economics (2nd course)
• The relationship "Doctor - Patient" in modern medicine (2nd course, Elective)
• Basics of translating professional literature (2nd course)
• The culture of speech in the practice of a doctor (2nd course)
• Features of the study of general pathology in the European Union (2nd course)
• Foreign terminology in the clinic of internal diseases (3rd course)

— for students mastering the double degree program "General Medicine"

• Philosophy (1st course)
• History (1st course)
• Bioethics (2nd course)
• Economics (2nd course)

— for students mastering the double degree bachelor program "Biology"

• Foreign language (1st course)
• History (2nd course)
• Features of foreign biomedical terminology (2nd and 3rd courses)
• Bioethics (3rd course)
• Jurisprudence (3rd course)
• Philosophy (3rd course)
• Psychology and pedagogy (3rd course)

— for students mastering the program "Pediatrics"

• The cultural basics in the ethics of a doctor (2nd course, Elective)