My university

I am a student of the Bashkir State Medical University. I’d like to tell you some from the history of our University. It was founded in 1932 and had one faculty – the medical one. In 1995 it was reorganized into the University. Now there are five faculties at the University: medical, pediatric, stomatologic, pharmaceutical, nursing. Besides, there are two other special faculties: the faculty for training research workers and medical educators and the faculty for advanced training of doctors and provisors. There is also a preparatory department for foreign students.

There is a six-year course of training for medical and pediatric students and a five-year course at the other faculties. Over five thousand students study at all these faculties and there are about sixty departments in various theoretical and clinical specialties. The curriculum contains all the basic and practical subjects that are necessary for the training of highly skilled specialists.

The undergraduates have practice at all the clinics of the University. The students have all the facilities to carry on their research work under the supervision of their teachers. The students’ scientific society plays an important role in the training of young specialists.

The students of our university have various facilities for sports and recreation, students from other towns and regions are given hostel accommodations. A great number of former students have become outstanding scientists.

The work of our doctors is valuable and helpful for people. Every day they fight for people’s life and serve them rendering necessary medical aid.

At a chemist’s

On receiving a prescription from a doctor we need medicines whish are usually ordered or bought at a chemist’s.

There are two departments in a large chemist’s: the chemist’s department and the prescription department. At the chemist’s department one can have the medicine immediately, other drugs have to be ordered at the prescription department.

At the chemist’s all drugs are kept in drug cabinets. Every small bottle, a tube or a box of medicine has a label on it. There are labels of three colours. White labels indicate drugs for internal use, yellow ones indicate drugs for external use and blue ones indicate drugs for injections. The dose to be taken and the directions for the administration are also indicated on a label. Indicating the dose and the name of any medicine is necessary for chemists, nurses, doctors and patients themselves. It prevents confusing different remedies because some of them are poisonous. Their overdosage may cause unfavourable reactions.

At a chemist’s one can buy different drugs for intramuscular and intravenous injections, for oral administration and for external use. One can also buy tubes of ointments, sedatives, tonics, sleeping draughts, laxatives, medicine droppers, mustard plasters, hot-water bottles and many other things.

On must be careful using medicine.

Case report

This 9-year old girl was readmitted to the clinic because of an acute attack of bronchial asthma. She was born at term. Her birth weight was normal. She was nursed on the breast. At the age of 1 month the child suffered from pneumonia. The child suffered from repeated catarrhs of the upper respiratory tract. At the age of one year the child suffered from her first attack of asthma. Repeated episodes of asthma occurred during the following years. Thus, bronchial asthma became a fixed condition in this child. In 1980 she was admitted to the clinic. Clinical and roentgological findings revealed emphysema of the lungs. She was administered a course of treatment. After a proper treatment her symptoms subsided. She was discharged from the hospital. But soon her condition became worse. She developed severe paroxysmal cough. Her temperature ran to 39*C. She complained of a pain in left side. There were streaks of blood in her sputum. She required urgent hospitalization.

On admission the girl complained of breathlessness, weakness, severe cough. Her temperature was 37,4*C. The skin was dry and pale. Her lips were cyanotic. Rales were heard in the second and third intercostals spaces. Her pulse rate was 140 per minute. On the palpation the abdomen was not distended. Blood analysis was made. The X-ray examination of the lungs showed a marked shadowing of the left lung. The girl was administered broncholytic preparations, antibiotics and cardiacs. The treatment resulted in the effective control of the attacks of asphyxia. The patient’s condition improved and she was discharged in a better condition to be further followed up.