Astana Medical University
Non-commercial joint stock company “Astana Medical University” (AMU) is one of the leading medical universities in Kazakhstan and CIS. Its history started in 1964 after the adoption by the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on October 26 of a resolution on the opening of a medical institute in Tselinograd.
According to the ranking, the university has been consistently among the leading medical universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan for many years. The academic partners of the university are the leading universities of the Europe and Asia. Further success in the employment and career of our graduates confirms the quality of our education. The status of the university sets us new challenges in medical education and science, opening up broad prospects for sustainable and long-term development. There are 5 bachelor’s programs, 2 internship programs, 46 residency programs, 9 master’s programs and 5 PhD doctoral programs. Nowadays, AMU is accepting foreign students at the bachelor’s level under the educational program “General Medicine”.
Website: amu.edu.kz
Project participants
Aygul Abduldayeva
Project leader in partner institution
Candidate of medical sciences, associate professor, doctor of the highest category. Head of the Centre for Transfer of Educational and Distance Learning Technologies. Has a sufficient project work experience. Leader of TRUNAK project. State Research Fellowship for Talented Young Scientists of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The best teacher of the University of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Assem Doskeldinova
Administrative worker, project manager
Specialist of the Office for International Cooperation.
Gulnar Zhaxylykova
Researcher in WP2.1
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor. Over the years of her work and scientific activity, she has written about 160 scientific and practical articles, 5 teaching aids, 3 pre-patents of the Republic of Kazakhstan. She has prepared 2 candidates of medical sciences. There are certificates for conscientious work in the field of medicine.
Gulmira Derbissalina
Researcher in WP2.3
Head of the Chair of General Medical Practice with a course of Evidence-based Medicine. Therapist of the highest category, a member of the Association of Family Physicians of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Studied under a joint project of DFID and the British Council for Family Medicine in Great Britain, studied the methodology of higher medical education in Israel, Great Britain, Denmark, Slovenia, Finland, participant of Salzburg seminars on medicine, took an active part in organizing and conducting international seminars at our university with the invitation of leading experts from America, England, Slovenia, Russia.
Aygerim Mukhamedyarova
Researcher in WP2.1
Deputy dean of Nursing faculty of Astana Medical University.
Ulbosyn Saltabayeva
Researcher in WP2.1
Head of the Chair of Nursing, Master of Medical Sciences, PhD, Associate Professor. Author of more than 50 scientific publications published in periodicals of Kazakhstan, recommended by the Committee for Supervision and Certification in the Field of Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in publications indexed in the information databases of Thomson Reuters, Scopus, in the materials of international conferences and congresses (Austria, Lithuania, Georgia, Russia, Kazakhstan). Scientific supervisor of master students of the specialty “Nursing”.
Zhanagul Bekbergenova
Researcher in WP2.1
MSH, assistant of the Chair of General Medical Practice with a course of Evidence-based Medicine. Work experience of more than 10 years, including teaching experience. She possesses the highest medical category.
Dinara Zhunussova
Researcher in WP2.4
Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Chair of General Medical Practice with a course of Evidence-based Medicine. She has more than 25 years of work experience, including 20 years of teaching experience, 1st medical category. She was awarded a letter of thanks from the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2017).
Alexandra Belyatko
Researcher in WP 2.3
Master of Medical Sciences, doctoral student in the specialty “Nursing Science”. She works as an assistant at the Chair of General Medical Practice with a course of Evidence-based Medicine, teaches Nursing students.
Sholpan Batarbekova
Researcher in WP2.1
Master of Medical Sciences. Assistant at the Chair of General Medical Practice with a course of Evidence-based Medicine.
Akerke Chayakova
Researcher in WP2.1
Chief Specialist of the Department for Scientific and Innovative Activity.
Dinara Kozhakhmetova
Administrative worker, member of WP4 – Dissemination
Press-secretary and head of press office of NCJSC “Astana Medical University”.
Gulnur Utenova
Administrative worker, responsible for financial processes
Head of the Center for Academic Activities. Master of Natural Sciences, graduated from the Pavlodar State Pedagogical Institute with a degree in chemistry and biology.
Raushan Makhanova
Administrative worker, responsible for financial processes
Chief accountant’s assistant.
