Kazan universities: a dentist — most expensive medical specialty

Expensive doctors

There are 652 doctors and 598 mid- and lower-level medical workers missing in Kazan medical institutions, as of the beginning of January this year. Despite that this year the Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) and the Kazan Federal University (KFU) are ready to accept 1025 applicants for medical specialties and nursing for the first year, it is unlikely that the shortage of personnel in state and municipal healthcare institutions in the coming years will be filled by university graduates.

It is almost impossible to enroll in a budget department without being a hundred-point student, and the need to “recapture” the considerable funds spent on paid tuition contributes to the outflow of graduates into commercial medicine. After all, in order to study to become a dentist at the paid department of the KSMU, in 2024 it will be necessary to pay by 72 thousand rubles more for the first course (+29%) than a year earlier — 320 thousand. It will cost a little cheaper in the KFU — 265 thousand rubles, the price increase for the year is 19.9%.

The KFU and KSMU established a high admission score for the state-funded places and, accordingly, the high cost of education for “payers” for those who want to get the most relevant specialty Medical Biochemistry.

Dentists have even fewer opportunities to study at state expense: only 35 places are provided for them at the KSMU budget department, and none at the KFU. But there are 85 places at the paid department of the Medical University, where the cost of education has jumped from 248 to 320 thousand rubles over the past year, and 50 places at the KFU, where it has increased from 221 to 265 thousand over the year.

It is not surprising that it is almost impossible to get an appointment with a dentist for compulsory medical insurance in Kazan. . There is an alternative — one can make a paid appointment, but there the treatment of one tooth costs at least 5 thousand rubles.

Poor Doctor Aybolit

The profession of a veterinarian, which in the last century did not enjoy special prestige among applicants, since it was strongly associated with animal husbandry and rural life, has become popular today. However, a high income after graduation is not guaranteed for veterinarians at all: a large number of pets from Kazan residents should seem to promise veterinarians good practice, however, there are more than enough veterinary clinics and veterinary offices — they are available almost on every corner. And those wishing to enroll in the Kazan State Academy of Veterinary Medicine can be optimistic becsuse of not the highest admission score on a state-funded basis and the average tuition fees compared to other universities.

Veterinarian Olga Shamkina, who works in Vysokaya Gora, says that today this specialty is more for enthusiasts than for those who expect high earnings:

With practice, as it turned out, everything is not so simple: the veterinary clinic should have enough patients to purchase drugs, rent a room, pay for utilities, and not every graduate of the veterinary academy manages to “succeed”:

“Three years ago, three clinics of one good network worked in Kazan, but today there are none left, they have closed. People in the current conditions save on everything, including their pets.

Nursing profession

This year, specialties related to food processing and production at the KNRTU and KGAU turned out to be quite affordable in terms of admission points and prices for paid training. Although, according to the expert of Realnoe Vremya, owner of the canteen Rashit Nurmukhametov, they can give a good start to life to an applicant with a developed business acumen:

“I am a food technologist by profession, when I was studying, I was mentally showing off, I imagined the future in the form of an elite restaurant with unique cuisine, I thought, here I will promote, and everything will be so beautiful. It was boyish! And today I feed lunches to employees of the surrounding offices — and earn well, observing three principles: tasty, satisfying, inexpensive. No, it's not like that! Inexpensive, but tasty and nutritious.

However, he noted, against the background of rising food prices and a drop in the purchasing power of the guests of his canteen, some difficulties with the growth of turnover are not excluded in the near future. Some of the visitors to the canteen already seem to have started saving and carrying lunches from home, and their number is going to increase, the interlocutor of Realnoe Vremya believes.

About purpose and means

Sozinov added that the KSMU adheres to the “ideology of high requirements”, which is why the high admission score of the Unified State Exam is justified — at least 65 points in each of the three disciplines.

He stressed that in the KSMU, due to its specifics, an unconditional feature is a very large amount of targeted training. If the average for universities in the country ranges from 10 to 15 percent, then 70% of applicants enter medical specialties according to the employer-sponsored set, while it is 15% for bachelor's degree, and 92% for residency, that is, almost all graduates are trained with an eye to specific jobs.

The KSMU rector explained that such a bias is not at all a “liberty” on the part of the university, but a necessity, since the university performs a state task. He recalled that those who dream of becoming a doctor and plan to conclude a contract on employer-sponsored training need to apply in advance either through the public services portal or in writing to the admissions committee, since from 2024 it will be impossible for potential “target students” to negotiate directly with employers. Sozinov also drew attention to that when concluding a contract on employer-sponsored training, they will have to work from 3 to 5 years for subsequent employment.