Medical university

Our Medical University is one of the oldest Ukrainian medical schools, and one of the most prominent and respectful in the country and abroad. At present University is a very prestigious establishment, which provides the best medical education.

The University has been a leader in developing medical science and medical education. Today, at the beginning of the third millennium, the University is a large medical scientific, research and educational center, noted for its extensive clinical and laboratory base and a brilliant teaching staff. This staff has unique pedagogical experience in training students and postgraduates from all over the world and is always happy to pass on their knowledge and experience.

The University has broad international contacts in the field of education, medical science, health care, and economic activities. The diplomas of our University are recognized in many countries all over the world.

Annually about 4,000 students from Ukraine and foreign countries study at the University. There are three major faculties at University: medical faculty, pediatric faculty, and bio-medical faculty.

The plan of annual admission of first-year students is regularly fulfilled. The University offers the preparatory courses for foreign students where they study Ukrainian, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.

After graduation from the University over 1.000 students are annually trained at the internship, clinical studies and take the postgraduate course.

The University students, postgraduates and interns, working for their academic degrees, are trained and get specialization, improve their knowledge and skills, carry out their theses at 74 chairs, 22 scientific-research laboratories of Medical University. The University has large library with more than 40,000 volumes in Ukrainian and foreign languages.

The University has very close link with the practical medicine. The bases of University are 32 specialized clinics, hospitals and other preventive and medical institutions for more than 9,000 beds, where the future doctors get extensive probation under the supervision of the most experienced tutors.

Many prominent scientists of Ukraine are working at the Medical Faculty of the University.

The glorious past of the University, deep pedagogical and scientific traditions, the importance of medical science and practice, and a wide range of qualified specialists, trained in the University, assure a leading role of our University.

Today Medical University is a complex of buildings designed for practical classes, lectures, laboratory studies, research work, and auxiliary services. All of the out-of-town students have been accommodated at the hostels. Students get medical assistance at a polyclinic staffed by doctors in all fields of medicine. Although studies are the most important in the students' life, attention is also paid to sport and entertainment. The University has sport complex, where students can attend sections of tennis, volleyball, etc.