Medical Faculty for International Students

Phones: +375152446824, +375336542125; +375152447227,+373336542125 (registration and visas)
email: foreign@grsmu.by

Our students come from many different countries of the world. At first, the majority of them came from Central Asia and Middle East: Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey. Then the majority came from Turkmenistan. When the University introduced training of specialists in English, the number of students from Mauritius, India, and Nigeria increased.

Within the Faculty’s functioning, we have had students from 55 countries of the world. Among the countries are: Azerbaijan, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Vietnam, Ghana, Germany, Greece, Georgia, Egypt, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Israel, India, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Canada, Cameroon, Kenya, China, Colombia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mauritius, Mauritania, Maldives, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, USA, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Ethiopia, South Africa.

Nowadays 1355 students from 31 countries are studying at the Medical Faculty for International Students. Sri Lanka has the biggest representation (728) and then goes Turkmenistan (216), India (191), Nigeria (94) and Maldives (51). English-speaking students prevail – 1126; Russian-speaking students – 229. The number of foreign citizens in the 1st year of studies at the Medical Faculty for International Students is 351, in the 2nd year – 296, in the 3rd year – 138, in the 4th year – 118, in the 5th year – 175, in the 6th year – 277 students.

Training of all international students at the Faculty is carried out in conformity with the standards for higher medical education in major “General Medicine”. The basis for modern high quality training of a physician is balanced combination of educational, scientific and academic process that is performed by the Dean’s office of the Faculty for International Students together with departments’ teachers and specialists. Classes undergo at 44 departments of the University in 62 disciplines. All professors and teachers of the University carry out training of Russian speaking students. The teachers who underwent courses and received certificates for teaching in English work with English speaking students. There are 133 of such teachers, 5 of them are professors, 47 associate professors, 80 assistants and teachers, 8 of them are doctors of sciences and 69 candidates of sciences.