A glorious page of spbspmu history: to the 40th anniversary of the mobile student polyclinic

Abstract

This article highlights a unique event in the history of student labor groups of the USSR - the medical team Mobile Student Polyclinic (MSP) organized in 1979 at the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute (LPMI, now the St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University). The creation of this medical team was triggered by the realities of Russian countryside life of that time - off -roads, poverty, lack or even absence of medical institutions and medical staff. The purpose of the mobile student polyclinic, its mission was to bring medical care (specialized care included) as close to the place of residence in the really rural areas of the eastern region of the Vologda Oblast as it was possible. The objectives were carrying out diagnostic and health -improving measures on the basis of the midwifery station and local hospitals in the areas that are often not easily accessible for all planned activities and have a significant shortage of health workers. The medical team of LPMI annually, for 15 years, from 1981 to 1995 went out to the really rural places of the Vologda Region. 100-120 children were examined and treated every day in the clinic. Thousands of children were examined, received the necessary help and recommendations, depending on the severity of the child’s physical condition and nature of the pathology over the years. It was no less important that at the same time the growth of the team members took place, they developed responsibility for their actions, and understanding of the need to improve their knowledge and self awareness of oneself as a specialist who is responsible for the child’s health. The relay baton of the labor valor was taken up by the current generation of SPbSPMU students. Their desire to help people professionally was expressed in the organization in 2019 of the student medical group “Lechu” (which means “I fly to treat patients”), which went out to the Tver region. The team members not only provided assistance to the doctors of the local hospital in all specialties, but also in the COVID-19 pandemic they worked in the covid -hospital, participated in the vaccination during the second wave of the pandemic.