Medical faculty of Moscow University was the medical faculty of Imperial Moscow University and, after 1917, Moscow State University. Established together with the university in 1755, it was the first university medical faculty in Russia. During the nineteenth century it became one of the country's leading centres of medical education and biomedical research. In 1930 it was separated from Moscow State University and reorganised as the First Moscow Medical Institute, the predecessor of the present-day First Moscow State Medical University.Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Faculty continued to operate as part of Moscow State University. In 1930, as part of the Soviet reorganisation of higher education, it was separated from the University and transformed into the First Moscow Medical Institute. This institution later became the First Moscow State Medical University.
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History
The Medical Faculty was founded simultaneously with Moscow University by the decree of Elizabeth of Russia establishing the university on 25 January (12 January O.S.) 1755. Together with the faculties of philosophy and law, it formed one of the University's three original faculties.
Regular medical teaching began in 1758. In its early years instruction relied heavily on invited foreign physicians and professors, reflecting the general development of higher medical education in the Russian Empire. During the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Faculty gradually expanded its teaching programmes, laboratories and clinical training.