Volga Research Medical University of PIMU

History

2023: Development of a method for rapid diagnosis of early tooth decay

On May 15, 2024, Russian specialists from the Volga Research Medical University (PIMU) announced the development of a method for express diagnostics of the early stage of tooth decay. The new technology is said to have a number of advantages over existing solutions. Read more here.

2021

Introduction of IT Medical Training Program

Volga Research Medical University (PIMU) will prepare IT doctors. Vkontakte The rector of the university Nikolai Karjakin wrote about this on November 18, 2021 on his page in "."

Internships and acquaintance with the projects of leading medical software companies are provided. It is possible to enter the master's degree in information technology in health care after the first year of residency, "he said.

Volga Medical University begins to prepare IT doctors

In the master's program "Information Systems and Technologies in Healthcare," PIMU will train developers of intelligent machine learning systems, neural networks, decision support systems, network applications, medical information systems, Big Data specialists and medical image analysis. In addition, according to Karjakin, internships and acquaintance with the projects of leading medical software development companies are provided.

IT medical training will be conducted in absentia in the evening. The university promises assistance in the employment of graduates: PIMU has concluded agreements on the practical training of students in the magistracy with a number of large IT companies.

Volga Research Medical University is not the first Russian university to decide to train doctors in specialties related to medical information technologies. Specialists in the medical specialties "IT-medic" and "network doctor," as well as engineers in information systems and technologies in medicine, are now being trained at the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov.

Institute of Digital Medicine Sechenov Medical University launched in 2018. Since the start of enrollment in September of that year, the university planned to graduate up to 15 people annually for each specialty.^[1]

BARS Group and PIMU launched courses to increase IT competencies among students of medical specialties

BARS Group on April 15, 2021 announced that, together with the Volga Research Medical University (PIMU), they launched courses to train students to work in medical information systems. By the time of release, they will be ready to use new technologies in the workplace.

Digitalization in the field of health directly affects the effectiveness and quality of medical care provided. In the Nizhny Novgorod region in 2021, it is planned to connect more than 200 feldsher-obstetric points to high-speed Internet. This work is carried out as part of the implementation of the national project "Digital Economy of Russia." In the future, all institutions will be included in a single digital health care circuit. Students of medical specialties should be ready to work in information systems, - said the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin.

Lectures and practical classes for students of the 6th year of the pediatric faculty of PIMU started on April 15, 2021. Students began to explain the standards for the exchange of medical data, showed the organization of automated workplaces on the example of "BARS. Healthcare - MIS," a scheme for working with electronic medical records, electronic prescriptions and disability certificates.

We are actively introducing methods for training medical personnel, one of which is the involvement of large companies in the field of digitalization in training. Acquaintance of students with the work of medical information systems is an important task: this will have a positive effect on their professional activities, - commented Irina Pereslegina, Vice-Rector for Medical Work of PIMU.

The joint organization of the educational process was a natural continuation of the agreement that the University and the IT company signed in 2019 to exchange expertise in the medical field.

Training young doctors to work with medical information systems increases the competence and competitiveness of doctors, which will ultimately affect the quality of medical care. We are glad that our joint efforts will really help doctors and patients of the Nizhny Novgorod region, - said Mikhail Kutlenkov, course leader, head of the department for work with key clients of BARS Group.

2019: BARS Group and Volga Research Medical University combine their competencies

BARS Group, a subsidiary of the National Center for Informatization, signed an agreement with the Volga Research Medical University (PIMU) within the framework of the Digital Industry of Industrial Russia (TsIPR-2019) conference to exchange expertise in the medical field and jointly organize the educational process.

PIMU and BARS Group intend to include lectures on working in medical information systems BARS. Healthcare in the training program, as well as to increase the level of education by introducing innovative technologies into the educational process.

"This cooperation will help a more dense and effective exchange of experience between teachers, students and developers of technological solutions, which opens up prospects for the development of new experimental sites, for example, in terms of genetics," commented Nikolai Karjakin, rector of PIMU.