Karaganda State Medical University
Karaganda State Medical Institute was founded in 1950. In 1997, it was transformed into Karaganda State Medical Academy. In 2008 on rating of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, KSMU took the 2 nd place among all medical high schools and the 8 th place among 60 high schools of our country.
KSMU today is one of the advanced medical educational institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan according to the rating of the National center , which was carried out in 2008.
Nowadays, KSMU is the leading medical school in the Republic.
About 6000 students from all regions of Kazakhstan are trained in our high school at 4faculties – General Medicine and Dentistry faculty; Therapeutics, Pediatrics, East Medicine and Internship faculty; Public Healthcare, Nursing, Pharmaceutics, Medical Prophylaxis faculty; faculty of continuous professional development. Training at the University is held in 3 languages –Kazakh, Russian and English.
The competitiveness of the University is supported by the advanced infrastructure: 4 comfortable education buildings with lecture halls and classrooms, 7 hostels, 36 clinical bases of faculties, as will student’s polyclinic and tooth clinic.
For these years, KSMU has given the permits in life to 32742 doctors. Graduates of KSMU successfully work both in Kazakhstan and abroad. High quality of training of experts for practical public health services, active participation in realization of priority directions of development of KSMU, the reforms, which are based on the main rules of public health services and Messages of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan allow to look ahead confidently.
Education at Karaganda State Medical University is the guarantee of stable future.
Task III.Answer the questions:
1. When was Karaganda State Medical University founded? 2. What was its name?
3. When did it get the name Karaganda State Medical Academy?
4. What is Karaganda State Medical University today? 5. How many faculties are there at the University? 6. What does infrastructure of the University include?
7. Where do graduates of KSMU work?
The English language as a means of the international communication
Learning foreign languages is very important nowadays. Foreign languages are needed as the main and the most efficient means of information exchange between the people of our planet.
Today English is the languages of the world. About one billion people spakenaa mother tongue. The native speakers of English live in Great Britain, in the United states of America. Australia and New Zealand. English is on of the official languages in the Irish Republic, Canada and South African Republic. As a second language it is used in the former British and US colonies.
English is used as the language of international communication in many areas of life: trade, tourism and sport, science, technology, business and mass media; it is the language of computer software, literature, education modern music.
English is a means of international communication. We learn it in order to find new friends abroad and get acquainted the cultures. There is no doubt that every educated person, every good specialist has to know English because it is absolutely necessary nowadays.
V. Answer the questions
1) What are foreign languages needed for?
2) How many people speak English as a “mother tongue”
3) In what countries is English the official language?
4) In what areas of life is English used?
5) What organization uses English as the official language?
6) Where is English used as a second language?
7) What do you get acquainted with learning English?
8) What language are the latest results of science translated into?
Our future profession
In Russia hundreds of thousands of young people study at different medical institutes. They study numerous theoretical and special subjects. They have practical training during which they do the work of nurses and assistant doctors. Such a course of studies helps them to gain much knowledge of medicine, which will give them the possibility to diagnose different diseases and treat people.
But medical students must remember that it is not easy to be a good doctor. A good doctor must have not only deep knowledge of a particular field of medicine such as surgery or therapy. He must love people and have a kind heart. He must give all his knowledge, all his abilities, all his talent, and all his time to people, to the protection of their health.
One of the prominent Russian therapeutists Prof. M.P. Konchalovsky considers that a person may be a poor writer, he may be a bad painter (художник) or an actor but a man cannot and must not be a bad doctor.
Medical students must understand well all the difficulties of their future profession. They must remember that often it will be difficult to diagnose a disease, sometimes it will be even more difficult to cure it. But a good doctor will always do his best to gain his patient’s confidence. And the confidence of a patient in his doctor is a “valuable remedy”.
Did you hear about Hippocrates Oath before you entered the Institute? What does it read? It reads, “I shall enter any house for the good of the patient. I shall not do my patient any harm” – these are the words for medical students. They must become the motto (девиз) of their life.
Medical students must remember that to treat patients is a great art (искусство) but not an ordinary trade (ремесло). It is one of the professions which requires a real calling for it.
Task III.Answer the questions:
1. Where do hundreds of thousands of young people study in Russia? 2. What subjects do they study?
3. What must good doctor have?
4. What does the prominent Russian therapeutics Prof. M.P. Konchalovsky consider? 5. What admission requirements into medical school?
6. What is a “valuable remedy”?
7. Whom must love a good doctor?