Institute of Digital Medicine BSMU

History

2022: Opening of the Institute

In January 2022, the Institute of Digital Medicine was opened on the basis of the Bashkir State Medical University (BSMU) in Ufa, which will specialize in the implementation of technological projects in the field of health care, including in the field of telemedicine.

As the head of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov, wrote on his country on Instagram, the opening of the Institute of Digital Medicine of BSMU will be a movement towards digitalization and "modernizing" medicine.

Institute of Digital Medicine opened in Russia on the basis of Bashkir State Medical University

These are remote telecommunications, it is an opportunity to consult at a distance and provide highly qualified medical care to residents of the most remote settlements of our republic, "he said.

The Institute of Digital Medicine was completed at the end of 2021. It includes classrooms with almost 200 seats, a lecture hall and computer classes. The scientific and educational process combines engineering and medical directions.

As the rector of BSMU Valentin Pavlov emphasized, the modernization of the higher education system will improve the quality of training of specialists.

We begin to immerse students in the digital environment from the first year to correlate their skills with the needs of science. The new institute will become a center of competence, will allow combining the achievements of our scientists and experts at the international level. This will accelerate the introduction of advanced technologies and increase the quality of medical care, "he said during the opening ceremony of the new BSMU building.

According to Radiy Khabirov, the university develops projects with well-known foreign scientific and educational centers, opens new specialties. In 2021, the All-Russian Center for Eye and Plastic Surgery became part of the BSMU, and this year it is planned to transfer eye diseases to the university of Ufa Research Institute of Eye Diseases.^[1]

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