MMedicine Institute is one of the leading departments of Mordovia State University in Mordovia - the largest educational, intellectual, scientific research and cultural center of Russia, largely determines the direction and pace of socio-economic, political and spiritual life of the region and country.

Faculty of Medicine opened July 1, 1967 by the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the RSFSR № 42 dated January 17, 1967. Annual enrollment is 175 students in the specialty "General Medicine". From the earliest days of the faculty are their own history and the oldest of the department - normal anatomy, normal physiology, histology, cytology and embryology. In 1969 he began teaching clinical subjects - propaedeutics internal medicine, general surgery and other bases for the teaching of clinical disciplines and the creation of clinical departments and courses became the largest hospital of the city and country.

The first Dean was Professor GN Saraykin. In subsequent years the department was headed by Assistant Professors A. Belyakov (1968 - 1971 gg.), And VM Zaitsev (1974 - 1976 gg.), Professor VI Kireev (1976 - 1977 gg.). From 1977 to 1987. department headed by head of the department of normal anatomy, MD Professor Honored Scientist PM NM Ivanov, creator of the famous Russian anatomical museum. From 1987 to 2002 was dean of Honoured Doctor of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Mordovia, the Head of the Department of Faculty Therapy, Professor LK Fedotkina, from 2002 to 2008 - Professor, Department of Hospital Surgery, MD MD Romanov. From February 2008 to the post of director of the medical institution designated MD, Professor A. Usanova. Decision of the Academic Council of the University Faculty of Medicine was renamed the Medical Institute (2008).

The training infrastructure is represented by 20 departments, divisions practical training of students, the regional educational, scientific and medical research complex. Postgraduate and additional education department provided clinical internship, the department of clinical internship, a center of advanced medicine and retraining. Trained medical staff carry 2 academicians and a corresponding member of RAMS, 8 academicians of public and foreign academies, 36 doctors, professors and 180 candidates of sciences, associate professors, 8 - Honored Scientist of Russia and Mordovia, 7 - Honored Worker of Higher School, 13 - distinguished physicians and Russia Mordovia. Members of the Board of All-Russian scientific and technical advice and scientific societies in Russia are 46 scientists, 42 - Presidents of scientific and medical societies and public institutions of Mordovia.