Vitebsk State Medical University (VSMU) is one of the most
dynamic and excellent universities in Europe and CSI nations.
Vitebsk State Medical Institute was established as a hospitalmedical institute in November 1, 1934 by Resolution of the
Council of People’s Commissars of the BSSR. The total number
of students on all courses was 250.rewarded with highest level
accreditation by the Ministry of Education and Science of Belarus.
All the degrees issued to foreign students are dully legalized and
apostatized by the Foreign Ministry of Belarus. The number of
foreign students was increasing and in 1997 the Faculty of
Overseas Students Training was opened. For the large merits in
training physicians for public health of Asia, Africa, Near East and
Latin America, the Vitebsk State Medical University was awarded
with the Medal of Peoples Friendship by the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of the USSR.