Second semester classes for winter admission students begin on the 26th of August.

Overseas Students Training Faculty

From 2 to 5 June 2019, the Congress of the European-African Association of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgeons was held in Amsterdam (the Netherlands).

Rector, professor A.T. Shchastniy, assistant professor of the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Advanced Training and Staff Retraining Y.N. Orlovsky and M.I. Kugaev were present from university and made poster reports. Additionally, controversial issues and innovations in liver and pancreas gland surgery were considered at the conference, new technologies and equipment for minimally invasive interferences and visualization were presented.

For the university, the obtained exchange of experience will allow to introduce and improve the diagnosis and treatment of liver and pancreas glad pathologies, as well as to introduce new technologies in the educational process of the Department of Surgery.

1On 16 May 2019, Indian Ambassador, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus, Mrs. Sanghita Bahadur, paid a visit to VSMU.

During this visit, Ms. Ambassador got acquainted with arrangement and material and technical facilities of our university, the organization of educational process in the departments of human anatomy and clinical microbiology, visited the anatomical museum.

On May 11, students of the Faculty of Overseas Students Training visited the capital of the Republic of Belarus - the hero-city of Minsk. O.A. Khodos (curator of 48 and 51 groups of the first course of OSTF) and Z.S. Kuntsevich (curator of 47 groups of the first course of OSTF) notified the foreign students about this trip. Students from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria, Spain, India, Lebanon and Pakistan under the leadership of the OSTF deputy dean M.A. Senkovich and the head of the Department of Organic Chemistry Associate Professor O.A. Khodos visited the National Library of Belarus and the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War. With undisguised interest, students listened to guides, viewed historical exhibits, collections of small arms, military ammunition and paraphernalia, photographs, and much more. Foreign students got acquainted with the historical past of the Republic of Belarus, with the peculiarities of librarianship and saw Minsk from a bird's-eye view.

Upcoming Free Faculty Webinars!

Kaplan Medical will be presenting the following two free faculty webinars in May 2019: