On 11-12 November 2018, the Chemical Faculty of the Belarusian State University in Minsk hosted 2018 Students’ Ecological Congress. 3rd-year students of Pharmaceutical Faculty Levchenko Ivan, Prokopenko Daria, and Sokolovskaya Lyudmila, and 2nd-year students of OSTF Volid Amani, Raniz Mohammed Aakib - members of Students’ Scientific Circle of the Department of general, physical and colloid chemistry of VSMU – took part in the work of the Congress. The scientific supervisor of the student team was Z.S. Kuntsevich, the head of the Department of general, physical, and colloid chemistry.

On 11 November 2018, Dr. Inderdeep Singh Pahal, Global Director for University/Institutional Partnership of Kaplan Medical Company, visited VSMU.

Kaplan Medical Company is the world leader in providing services for preparation for USMLE examinations to gain the right for licensed medical practice in the US, which also extends to other countries around the world. The company has been engaged in this sphere for 40 years. The percentage of successful passing the USMLE examination after completing the training at Kaplan Medical is 72-95%.

A meeting between the academic staff of the department of pediatrics and students of the supervised fraternity of Jordan was held on the 18th of October 2018. During the meeting the academic staff got acquainted with the first year students enrolled in the VSMU on specialties «General Medicine» and «Stomatology». We discussed questions concerning study process in the university, public life, daily problems and needs of the students. The meeting was held in a warm, relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Similar meetings with students of supervised fraternity regularly take place at the department of pediatrics.

The department of pediatrics

In September 21-23,2018, the Second International Dental Congress Dentsply Sirona World CIS was held in the Moscow International House of Music. This Congress united more than 1200 specialists of dental profile in all directions: prevention, restoration, endodontic treatment, implantology, including a separate unit for clinic effective management. During 3 days, world-known professionals presented clinical lectures and talked about current issues in modern dentistry - from preventive care to implant dentistry. Separate sessions were devoted to orthodontics, dental prosthetics and digitalized dentistry.

In September 3-15, 2018 within the program of academic mobility there was a trip VSMU student’s group to the Poznan University of Medical Sciences named after Karol Marcinkowski .This group included 10 students of medical and pharmaceutical faculties. The head of the Department of International Affairs, associate professor of Pediatrics chair Olga Victorovna Matyushchenko headed this delegation.

It is necessary to note the thought-out organization of our stay in Poznan from the Polish side: we were hospitably met and put to the hostel «Esculap» which situated in the heart of the university campus. Food, tickets and maps of the city were provided for us.