Specialty − “Clinical Psychology”
Qualification − psychologist
Duration of the course − 5 years
Since 1999 Kursk State Medical University has been preparing
specialists of the specialty 030302 − “Clinical Psychology”.
Graduates of the faculty work successfully in institutions of
Public Health, establishments giving psychological support to
citizens of the Central Black Earth Region and in institutes of
higher education in Kursk and Russia.
Students are taught by 37 specialists who have basic psychological
education and also by leading specialists of the system of
practical Public Health. Among working staff there are 6 Doctors of
Science, 14 candidates of Science, one member of the International
Academy of Psychological Sciences, one member of the Academy of
Natural Sciences, 2 members of the Petrovskij Academy of Science
and Art, one member of the International Academy of Science of
Pedagogical Education. On the faculty there is a laboratory of
experimental psychology, a center of psychological support for
students. Students of the faculty learn thoroughly disciplines of
the specialization on the basis of institutions of Public Health
and establishments giving psychological support to citizens of
Kursk. The curriculum includes the following blocs of disciplines:
general-mathematical and natural-scientific, general-humanitarian
and social-economical and also the bloc of general-professional
disciplines and disciplines of specializations, special trainings
and supervision.
A specialist with high psychological education of the specialty
“Clinical Psychology” is allowed to give psychotherapeutic support
along with a psychotherapist, work as a medical psychologist in
institutions of Public Health, work in the sphere of practical
psychology and teach psychology in higher educational
establishments.
Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Psychology
