Grodno State Medical University

• Name — Grodno State Medical University • Native Name — Гродзенскі дзяржаўны медыцынскі універсітэт • Established — 1958 (1775 as Medical Academy) • Type — Public • Rector — Snezhitsky Victor Alexandrovich • City — Grodno • State — Republic of Belarus • Website — http: www.grsmu.by/

• Illustration — Building of Grodno Medical Academy GrSMU is the successor of the first medical school in Belarus, the Grodno Medical Academy, established in 1775 by Antoni Tyzenhaus, former mayor of Grodno, to improve the almost nonexistent healthcare system in the city. Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert, French botanist, Freemason and medical doctor, became its first rector. Under his rule were trained first doctors (former illiterate peasants) built a botanical garden and a chemist's shop. The academy in 1781 was reorganized into the Medicine Faculty of Vilna University. The medical school was renovated only during Soviet-era time in 1958. Firstly, it was a small university. Officially got its university status only in 2000.

Nowadays, the university has 6 faculties: • Faculty of General Medicine • Faculty of Pediatrics • Faculty of Medical Psychology • Faculty of Diagnostic Studies • Faculty of Advanced Training and Retraining • Faculty of International Students • Illustration — Main building There are 45 departments of university spread across the city. Main building, completed in 1974, located at Gorkogo st. 80.

University does conduct research. It takes part in EU's Trans-European Mobility Programme for University Studies. Also, GrSMU publishes its own medical journal. Grodno State Medical University was recognised as one of the best of its kind in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), according Expert RA. And the best medical university in Belarus.

• Volodymyr Kozyavkin (1947–2022) • Philaret Vakhromeyev (1935–2021)