Faculty of Overseas Students Training of VSMU

Dean:

Pobyarzhin Vyacheslav Voitekhovich
tel. +375 212 60-14-18

Dean's Office address:

Vitebsk, Republic of Belarus
Frunze ave., 23

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• Regulations on the procedure for admission of foreign citizens and stateless persons for higher education and training at the preparatory department

VSMU has extensive experience in training specialists for foreign countries. Representatives of 44 countries receive higher medical and pharmaceutical education here and become doctors, pharmacists, and dentists.

By the decision of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health of the USSR, VSMU was one of the first Belarusian universities to receive the right to train specialists for foreign countries. In September 1981, the first foreign citizen from Tanzania, Mtita Mganga Isdori, arrived in Vitebsk, followed by 52 more representatives from 42 countries. Professor M.A.Nikolsky became the first dean for work with international students.

The University trains doctors, pharmacists and dentists for the countries of Southeast Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan), Africa (Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Kenya, Cameroon, Morocco, Tanzania, Mali, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria), Arab countries (Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Palestine, Pakistan), Latin American countries (Peru, Panama, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Kampuchea, El Salvador), France, Sweden, Norway. Graduates of the university successfully work in more than 100 countries around the world, including the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Great Britain, Australia, etc.

In 1981, the Department of the Russian Language was established to assist international students in mastering their chosen specialty. The department was headed by a graduate of the Peoples' Friendship University named after Patrice Lumumba, Associate Professor V.V. Bely.

Organizational and methodological work was aimed at improving the educational process, ensuring high-quality training of specialists for foreign countries. Since 1989, the Institute has opened a preparatory department for foreign citizens, designed to provide them with good training in the Russian language and specialized subjects, as well as successful adaptation to university studies. His first listeners were 15 Lebanese citizens. During the work of the preparatory department of VSMU, 553 students from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia have graduated.

Bizimana Mukamana Dancil, a citizen of Rwanda, became the first foreign student accepted to study in pharmacy. In 1995, the first graduate of the Master of Pharmacy took place and Kafa lGhazal Ibrahim, a citizen of Lebanon, received his first diploma. From 1990 to the present, a group of 10-12 foreign citizens arrives annually to study in this specialty. The prestige of the university grew from year to year, and the number of foreign citizens coming to receive higher medical and pharmaceutical education increased. In 1997, one of the first faculties in the Republic of Belarus was established at VSMU to train specialists for foreign countries.

With the acquisition of university status in 1999, new horizons opened up. In 2001, six students began studying dentistry. Our faculty was one of the first in the country to switch to teaching foreign citizens only under individual contracts, which the student enters into directly with the university. In September 2002, our faculty was one of the first in the country to begin training foreign citizens in the specialty "medical science" using English and Russian languages of instruction.

Over the past period, relevant regulations, curricula and programs have been developed and approved, special literature has been purchased and published, educational and methodological complexes have been created, 86 teachers have received a certificate of completion of the course "peculiarities of teaching foreign citizens in English", the geography of the countries represented has expanded. In 2008, the first graduation of students who completed training using Russian and English languages of instruction took place. Over the past period, 273 doctors have been trained based on this form. In September 2013, a group of students studying in English in the specialty "dentistry" started classes. The expanded and updated material and technical base of the university has allowed for an annual increase in the number of foreign citizens coming to study.

By 2005, the goal was achieved: the number of students enrolled at the faculty exceeded 500 and remained stable throughout the following years. Every seventh VSMU student is a foreigner, which is the best indicator in the Republic of Belarus.

Currently, representatives of 44 countries are studying at the Faculty of training foreign citizens. Foreign citizens are trained in the specialties of "medical science", "pharmacy" and "dentistry", continue postgraduate studies in clinical residency and master's degree, and study at the preparatory department.

Foreign citizens can receive specialized training in narrow specialties by studying in clinical residency or postgraduate studies. The choice of specialties is extensive - surgery, pediatrics, cardiology, otorhinolaryngology, urology, oncology, traumatology, ophthalmology, clinical and laboratory diagnostics, etc.

The Faculty of Foreign Studies at VSMU accepts foreign citizens regardless of race, nationality, gender, language, and religious beliefs. Foreign citizens studying in the Republic of Belarus enjoy the same rights and freedoms and bear the same duties as citizens of the Republic, unless otherwise provided by the legislation of the Republic of Belarus.

After enrolling a foreign citizen in the number of students, VSMU signs an individual contract with him according to the approved form.

Educational institution "VSMU" concludes contracts with legal entities that provide recruitment of foreign citizens without financial obligations.