The path to the dream of Vikash Choudhary began at KBSU

At the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov in the 2020/2021 academic year studied over 16 thousand students, graduate students, residents from 45 regions of Russia and 45 countries. Foreign students accounted for 10% of the total number of students.

Vikash Chowdhary, a medical student who has transferred to the third year, spoke about what he likes in the Russian education system and what he doesn’t, who believes that Russia has a good education and knowledge assessment system. The level of teaching is not lower than in European ones, and training programs, in particular in medical fields, correspond to those that students expect to see in prestigious universities in the world. At the same time, education in Russia can be obtained much cheaper.

‘In India, I graduated from college with a degree in Physiology, received a specialty as a nutritionist. In the hospital, he mastered the skills of a surgical technologist to work as a paramedic in an ambulance. He worked in a private hospital and saw that doctors with higher education were paid much more. My mentor Anirban Ash, a graduate of a university in St. Petersburg, advised me to enter a Russian university, after which I will have to pass an exam in India to confirm my doctor’s diploma, Vikash recalls. — I chose a university, which is located in the beautiful resort town of Nalchik, has many years of experience in training doctors, where there are all the conditions for effective teaching: an experienced teaching staff, equipped educational scientific laboratories, a convenient location of the campus, etc. Teaching is conducted in English, computer technology, simulators for practicing medical skills, and realistic models of human body organs are used. There is also a virtual anatomical table that has a built-in atlas with 3D illustrations of normal human anatomy and pathologies.»
As a disadvantage of getting an education in Russia, Vikash named the fact that practical internships in medical institutions — clinical bases — are aimed at Russian students or those who speak Russian very well.

Vikash and his classmates traveled all over Kabardino-Balkaria, saw its sights: the Elbrus region, Chegem waterfalls, Blue Lakes, ancient towers in the mountains, visited the resort cities of the North Caucasus — Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk, Zheleznovodsk, etc.