Національний Темпус / Еразмус+ 
офіс в Україні

Today educational process is carried out at 7 faculties:

 Preparatory Training Course, General Medicine, Pharmaceutical Faculty, Stomatological Faculty, Overseas Students Training Faculty, Post-graduate Training,  Faculty of Pedagogics and Psychology of Higher School

Educational process is organized at 60 departments, where 57 doctors and 225 candidates of sciences, including 45 professors and 170 assistant professors, work. The educational departments are equipped with modern automatic apparatuses for training, sets of plastic models and phantoms, complex medical-diagnostic equipment. The teaching is supported with skilled pedagogical experience, highly - qualified research activity and great academic means of training.

Ratio and 3-stage system of students’ knowledge assessment is used at the university (computer testing, practical skills and interview).

Clinical Bases of the University

To improve the quality of teaching educative-industrial pharmacy, dental clinic, and control-analytic laboratory were created where students are able to put the accepted knowledge into practice.

Clinical bases of the University are the majority of city clinics containing necessary modern medical-diagnostic equipment. Total bed fund of clinical departments is 4 200 beds. The main clinical bases of the university are Regional Clinical Hospital, Regional Oncological Heath Centre, Hospital of Emergency Medical Help, Regional Children Clinical Hospital, VSMU Clinic and others.

 Scientific research

There are 14 scientific-pedagogical schools in medical-biological, clinical, pharmaceutical disciplines at VSMU which make a valuable contribution into contemporary medical and pharmaceutical science and practice development in the Republic of Belarus and CIS countries. Students scientific society has rich traditions and wide experience in the field of young scientists preparation. The scientific activity of VSMU is carried out in the following perspective scientific directions: field and extremal medicine, surgical diseases, medical aids, infection, prophylaxis and treatment of heart-vascular system, traumas, oncology, healthy mother – healthy child, prophylaxis of alcoholism, drug addiction and psychosomatic diseases, internal diseases; organization, management and economy of health care system.

The University edits scientific practical magazines “News of Surgery”, “Bulletin of Pharmacy”, “Immunology, Allergology, Infectology”, “Bulletin of VSMU”, “Maternity and Childhood Protection”, published in large editions newspaper “Medvuzovets”.

Overseas Students Training Faculty

In 1981 by the decision of Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health Services of the USSR Vitebsk State Medical Institute was the first in Belarus to receive the right of training medical staff for foreign countries. During the work of the Overseas Students Training Faculty existence 1500 doctors and pharmacists have been prepared and now they are working successfully in 110 countries of the world.

Undergraduate Training

Foreign citizens are offered two forms of training: Russian Medium and English + Russian Medium (General Medicine only). The curriculum of both forms of training is the same except the language of instruction. Educational process is organized on the basis of traditional European curriculum which includes lectures, seminars, laboratory and practical classes. Studying clinical subjects is organized in the form of cycles (1-3 weeks each). Starting from the 5th course additional elective courses are conducted in English (Hospital Surgery, Hospital Therapy, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Reanimatology, Infectious Diseases).

Postgraduate Training

The graduates may continue their medical education in clinical residency or postgraduate training course in a large number of specialities (Surgery, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Urology, Oncology, Traumatology etc.) Training in clinical residency is carried out according to the Educational Program approved by the Ministry of Health and lasts 2-4 years. It includes theoretical and practical aspects. After completing the course a clinical resident receives the Certificate. Postgraduate Training Course lasts 3-4 years. Research work is conducted individually or in groups of young scientists from various University departments. A post-graduate student passes examinations and after graduation defends a thesis.

Information about the intended TEMPUS project

We are interested in wide number of themes concerning the improvement of higher education in general or just education in the sphere of medical science. Topics we are interested in are creating models improving the quality of high education, working out ways of improving student mobility, developing new educational programmes, standardization of education, education process of the I and II stages and so on.

Project proposal/description

Right now we have no finally developed project but we are ready to realize our ideas in the sphere of higher medical education and higher education in general. We are intended to become an effective member of consortium in multi-country or national joint projects.

Previous international experience:

It’s our first attempt in TEMPUS Programme therefore all possible help is highly appreciated.

Please contact:

Goncharova Alina Vladimirovna

Inspector of International Department of VSMU

+375-212-241791

interdep.vitmed@gmai.com