Vladivostok State Medical University

Coordinates: 43°7′51″N 131°54′7″E / 43.13083°N 131.90194°E / 43.13083; 131.90194

Vladivostok State Medical University
Владивосто́кский госуда́рственный медици́нский университе́т
Motto Debes, Ergo Potes
(You Must, so you Can)
Established 1958
Rector Valentin Shumatov (in Russian)
Academic staff 1000
Students 15,000
Location Vladivostok, Russia
Colors ltblue
Website http://www.vsmu.net/

Vladivóstok State Medical University (Владивосто́кский госуда́рственный медици́нский университе́т) is a university in Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia.

At the beginning, since 1956 VSMU was the Medical Faculty of the Far Eastern State University, but in 2 years it became Vladivostok State Medical Institute (VSMI). Institute was reorganized into the University in 1995.

Faculties of the Vladivostok State Medical University:

  • The Medical Faculty
  • The Military Faculty (disband at 2008)
  • The Military Training Center
  • The Pediatric Faculty
  • The Faculty of Medical Prophylactic and Medical Biochemistry

Among the medical Universities of the Far East VSMU - the only institution that trains doctors at Faculty Medical Prophylactic, providing preventive measures for healthy living of the population of Khabarovsk, Primorsky and Kamchatka Territories, Amur, Sakhalin and Magadan regions, the Republic of Sakha and Chukotka.

  • The Pharmaceutical Faculty
  • The Stomatological (dental) Faculty
  • The Higher Nursing Edication and Social Work Faculty
  • The Clinical Psychology Faculty
  • The Continuous Medical Edication
  • The Postgraduate and Further Degree Studies
  • Pre-University Training

Read more about Vladivostok State Medical University:  VSMU Today

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