On the eve of Teacher's Day, the Dean of the Faculty of Pre-University Training of VSMU, Elena Anatolyevna Gusakova, was awarded a Certificate of Honor from the administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Vitebsk for conscientious and fruitful work in the state health care system, high professionalism, and great contribution to the training of highly qualified specialists.

Congratulations!

The staff and students.

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.

On July 11, 2017, the delegation of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus headed by the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Council of the Republic of Belarus on International Affairs and National Security Rakhmanov Sergey Kimovich and the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on Legislation and State Building Bodak Alla Nikolaevna visited VSMU. High guests had the opportunity to get acquainted with the arrangement of VSMU, its material and technical facilities, to see practical classes of students and the anatomical museum. Within the framework of the visit, the meeting of the delegation with the administration of VSMU was held to discuss issues related to new promising areas in the field of education and science.

On the first day of the new academic year, course meetings were held for first-year students at the Faculty of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, and Dentistry of VSMU. During these sessions, newly enrolled students were introduced to the history of Vitebsk State Medical University and their chosen faculty. Deans and deputy deans presented, and all organizational issues related to starting studies at the university were explained. 

On February 9, 2017, within the frames of the reference visit to the Vitebsk region, the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus, Mr. Pankaj Saxena paid a courtesy visit to Vitebsk State Medical University. The rector of VSMU, prof. A.T. Shchastny, vice-rector for International Affairs and Work with foreign citizens Ph.D. M.M. Savchuk, vice-rector of Ideological Affairs O.A. Syrodoeva, and the Head of International Department Ph.D. O.V. Matyushchenko took part in the meeting with the Ambassador.