Institute of General Medicine
Head: Elena V. Reznik, PhD, MD
Phone: +7 (499) 936-99-50
E-mail: reznik_ev@rsmu.ru
The Department's staff consists of Chief, 3 professors, 14 associate professors, 17 assistant professors and technical staff
The Department offers a range of subjects in the field of " General Medicine" for students:
For first-year students:
For second-year students:
For third-year students:
For fourth and fifth-year students:
For sixth-year students:
The Department is a training facility for highly qualified personnel in residency programs in the specialties of "Therapy," "Cardiology," " Functional methods of diagnosis."
In addition to the main curriculum, the Department offers electives and optional courses for residents, including:
The department also participates in training programs for residents of other specialties.
Additionally, the department collaborates with the Faculty of Postgraduate Education (School of Continuing Medical Education) in a professional retraining program for residents (second specialty) in the field of "Ultrasound Diagnostics."
The Department provides training of highly qualified personnel in the postgraduate course (PhD) of "Clinical Medicine" in the specialties "Internal diseases", "Cardiology"
Currently, the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine No. 2 teaches around 2,000 first-, second-, and third-year students, including those from the Institute of International Medicine studying in English, 28 clinical residents from Moscow and various regions of the Russian Federation, as well as from neighboring and distant foreign countries, and 4 postgraduate students. Additionally, 6 postgraduate research candidates are affiliated with the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine No. 2 to prepare their dissertations without enrolling in formal postgraduate programs for scientific and academic training. Every year, postgraduate students, residents, and students participating in the department's research club win prizes at scientific conferences and student research forums.
In recent years, significant efforts have been made to qualitatively reform and enhance the teaching of propaedeutics in accordance with modern requirements of higher medical education and new technical learning opportunities. The structure of practical classes has been substantially revised, with significantly more time allocated to students' independent work at the patient’s bedside and the improvement of examination techniques.
The curriculum now includes two semester-based assessments of practical skills using control photo and audio materials illustrating various pathological symptoms, as well as training with auscultation simulators. Test-based knowledge assessment is widely implemented using an automated educational system (AES), a course project — an examination medical case. For self-study, workbooks with key questions on the topics covered are successfully utilized.
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.
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.
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.
