On December 18–19, 2025, an important political event will take place in our country, defining the strategy for the further development of our state for the next five years.

The key will be the address of the President of our country, Alexander Lukashenko, to the Belarusian people and Parliament, as well as the approval of the program of socio-economic development of the Republic of Belarus for 2026–2030.

On December 16, Vitebsk State Medical University hosted the republican scientific and practical conference with international participation titled "Military Medicine: History and Modernity."

After the opening ceremony and plenary session, work commenced in various sections.

As part of ongoing engagement with young people, on December 15, VSMU Rector Alexey Chukanov met with members of the university team representing VSMU at the VIII International Student Surgery Olympiad.

On December 15, 2025, the interuniversity stage of the republican project "100 Ideas for Belarus" took place.

The VSMU projects presented at the competition are highly relevant and of great practical importance.

VSMU projects that received permission to participate in the ministerial stage of the competition include:

• "Creation of the digital DermaCalc Pro platform for calculating the area, depth, and volume of skin lesions in clinical practice" (authors: Maxim Los, Slavyana Bogushevich);
• "SarcScore application for early detection of muscle weakness" (authors: Olga Azarenko, Anna Antonysheva);
• "Virtual Patient" (author: Elizabeth Ivanova);

On December 13, 2025, participants of the VSMU project "Youth for Family Values: Family and Spiritual and Moral Traditions of Belarus" went on an excursion called "Five Temples – Five Destinies," which was developed by VSMU students. They visited the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in The Candle and the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Slobodka. Additionally, they took part in a charity event to clean up the territories of the temples and memorials of the Great Patriotic War located in these settlements.

VSMU students had the opportunity to see the temple in the village of Slobodka, which is identical to the temple that once stood on the territory of the Vitebsk Medical University and has not survived to this day, as well as other temples similar in architectural style. They engaged in conversations with local residents, learned about the history, architecture, and nature of the Vitebsk region, and discussed future travel routes in Belarus and new projects for the restoration of rural churches.