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TOMSK,
Apr 24 – RIA Tomsk. Siberian State Medical
University (SSMU) will receive in 2017 100 million rubles from the federal
budget for development as a supporting university, the representative of the
medical university reported RIA Tomsk on Monday.
Earlier
it was reported that SSMU became the only Tomsk higher educational institution
which received the status of the supporting university. Within five years it
has to must fulfill the approved development program, for which it will receive
funds from the regional and federal budgets. During the time of participation
in the program, SSMU plans to increase the number of students from 5.7 thousand
to 10 thousand people.
"Under
the program of supporting universities for 2017 for us be allocated 100 million
rubles of federal funds", - the interlocutor of the agency said.
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Also
it was reported that in addition to federal funds, the medical higher education
institution will receive regional financing. The subsidy sum from the regional
treasury wasn't called.
As
the rector of the university Olga Kobyakova said on Monday, SSMU will rely on
the development of interdisciplinary directions both in the training of
specialists and in the carrying out of scientific research. In particular, this
is about the use of IT-technologies in medicine, robotics, mathematical
modeling in biomedicine and others.
She
explained that together with other universities (first of all – Tomsk) SSMU
plans to create network master programs for training of specialists for the new
directions." (It is also planned) to create interdisciplinary teams. In
pure form physicians won't cope with tasks which face medical science. Also
technicians won't cope with them", – the rector added.