On April 18, 2024, the delegation of VSMU took part in the republican scientific and practical conference with international participation, at which reports were presented by famous scientists from Minsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Astana, Gomel, etc., dedicated to the strategy for the development of healthcare in Belarus and the assessment of medical technologies.

At VSMU, at the Department of Hospital Therapy and Cardiology with a course of FAT and PR from 08/04/2024 to 19/04/2024, for the first time, a refresher course was held for young specialists - anesthesiologists-resuscitators, cardiologists, emergency doctors, general practitioners, doctors -therapists on the topic “Emergency conditions and resuscitation in cardiology.”

On April 18-20, 2024, in Pinsk, on the basis of the educational establishment “Polesie State University”, the IX International Festival of Volunteer Teams “Our Choice is a Healthy Lifestyle!” was held, in which VSMU volunteers took part.

At the festival, volunteers visited sites on providing first aid to people, on the work of a therapy dog ​​with people with special needs of psychophysical development, an intensive social volunteering program “Give a healthy interactive!”, and a smart project “Juicy Choice”.

19/04/2024, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Valentina Ivanovna Novikova, head of the Department of Pediatrics AR and PR (until November 2023) of the educational establishment“Vitebsk State Order of Peoples’ Friendship Medical University” died.

April 18, 2024, the 2nd year students of the Faculty of Medicine Kushchin M.K. and Ladik N.O. took part in the LXXXV Annual final scientific and practical conference of students and young scientists with international participation “Current issues of experimental and clinical medicine - 2024”, held at the First St. Petersburg State Medical University named after the acad. I.P. Pavlova, where they made a report on the topic: “Evaluation of the expression level of microRNA-489-3p in experimental liver fibrosis” (headed by the Associate Professor of the Department of Histology, Cytology and Embryology Lebedeva E.I.).