Perm State Pharmaceutical Academy (russian: Пермская государственная фармацевтическая академия) (full name: State budgetary educational institution of higher professional education "Perm State Pharmaceutical Academy") is a higher
educational institution
An educational institution is a place where people of different ages gain an education, including preschools, childcare, primary-elementary schools, secondary-high schools, and universities. They provide a large variety of learning environments an ...
in
Perm that trains specialists with a
pharmaceutical
A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) is an important part of the medical field and re ...
education.
As of 2016, the academy includes 5 faculties and 20 departments.
History
In 1918, a pharmaceutical department was created on the basis of the
Perm State University
Perm State University (now Perm State National Research University; russian: Пермский университет, Пермский государственный университет, , romanised: , ) or PSU, PSNRU (russian: ПГУ, , ro ...
.
In 1930, the university was disbanded, the Chemical Pharmaceutical Faculty was reorganized into an independent Institute of Chemical Technology. Together with the technical base, in 1931 he was transferred to the city of
Berezniki
Kydzakar, also known as Berezniki ( koi, Кыдззака́р, russian: Березники́), is the second largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Perm Krai, Russia. The city is located on the banks of the Kama River, in the Ural ...
.
In 1936, the Faculty of Pharmacy was transformed into the Perm State Pharmaceutical Institute.
In 1995, the Perm State Pharmaceutical Institute received the status of an
academy and was renamed the Perm State Pharmaceutical Academy.
In 2005, the academy received the name of the State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Perm State Pharmaceutical Academy of the Federal Agency for Health and Social Development".
Current state
As of 2011, the academy included 5 faculties:
* faculty of full-time education;
* faculty of distance learning;
* faculty of training foreign citizens;
* Faculty of Additional Professional Education;
* faculty of pre-university training of youth.
4500 students, 50 graduate students, 6 doctoral students, 70
interns study at PSFA.
Teaching activities are carried out by 28
doctors of sciences,
professor
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candidates of sciences
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,
associate professors, 8 members of international academies, 6 honored health workers of the Russian Federation.
PGFA carries out educational activities under the following programs:
* for
higher professional education
A university of applied sciences (UAS), nowadays much less commonly called a polytechnic university or vocational university, is an institution of higher education and sometimes research that provides vocational education and grants academic de ...
programs:
** in the specialty "pharmacist";
* for
Postgraduate education
Postgraduate or graduate education refers to Academic degree, academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by higher education, post-secondary students who have earned an Undergraduate education, un ...
programs:
** graduate school:
*** 14.00.25 — pharmacology;
*** 00/15/01 - drug technology and organization of the pharmaceutical business;
*** 15.00.02 - pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacognosy;
*** 03.00.13 - human and animal physiology;
*** 02.00.03 - organic chemistry;
** internship:
*** management and economics of pharmacy;
*** pharmaceutical technology;
*** pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacognosy.
* according to programs of additional education (advanced training and retraining of specialists):
** management and economics of pharmacy;
** pharmaceutical technology;
** pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacognosy.
References
Links
Academy official website
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Universities in Russia
1936 establishments in Russia
Pharmacy schools
Universities and colleges established in 1918