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Students at Vitebsk State Medical University have drawn a lucky ticket, the university's rector is confident. A solemn university council was held on the occasion of its 89th birthday.
Teachers, students, staff, and alumni of the university gathered for this occasion at the Vitebsk Concert Hall.
The solemn event was attended by Chairman of the Regional Council of Deputies Vladimir Terentyev, Deputy Head of the Main Department for Healthcare of the Regional Executive Committee Nikolai Kasperovich, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk City Council of Deputies Vladimir Belevich, Chairman of the Industry Trade Union Vladimir Plytkevich, and other distinguished guests.
– Thank you very much for your titanic work, for what you do for everyone who becomes your patient. Thank you for your dedication, care, and professionalism, – Vladimir Terentyev addressed the audience. – It is also highly valued that you are versatile, talented people, and your creative groups bring great pleasure to audiences at concerts of various levels. VSMU is a unique university where unique people come, who understand from childhood what they want in life and choose the difficult profession of a medic, knowing how demanding it is, requiring self-dedication, starting from the student bench. After all, a person's health and even life depend on the specialist you become.
– Another reason for joy is the birthday of our university, – Rector of VGMU Alexey Chukanov noted in an interview. – The trend of recent years is an increase in foreign students who come to study purposefully in Belarus and specifically at VGMU. We are not for nothing named "Friendship of Peoples", because a friendly family is truly created at the university – students from more than 50 countries study here, which indicates that we have truly high-quality Belarusian medical education, for which people come from afar – from African and Asian countries, the Chinese vector is opening up, cooperation with India, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia is expanding. We look to the future with confidence, emphasizing that all this is the achievement of our faculty. They are not just recognized specialists in domestic medicine, but undoubtedly world-class specialists, to whom people come for knowledge, skills, including on issues of organizing medical care. This was once again confirmed by the visit of the Uzbek delegation, which visited VGMU as part of the international medical forum. Rectors of universities and heads of Uzbek medical colleges are delighted with the organization of healthcare in Belarus. But the most important thing in medicine is not equipment, but people. Without exaggeration, I can say that we are training the specialists of tomorrow. After all, even today we must give students the knowledge they will need to work with tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, which are ahead of their time.
Within the framework of the forum, VGMU signed several agreements on the creation of new educational programs together with Uzbek colleagues in residency and clinical residency, Alexey Chukanov reported. They are related to the training and exchange of faculty, and the training of Uzbek specialists at the faculty for advanced training of VGMU.
– Our teachers will travel to Uzbekistan and train their faculty. This is great, and it can be a source of pride, – noted the Rector of VGMU.
A number of university staff were awarded honorary diplomas of the regional Council of Deputies, the main department for healthcare, the city executive committee, and letters of gratitude from the chairman of the city executive committee, as well as awards from the Belarusian Trade Union of Healthcare Workers, UP "Farmatsiya" on this day.
Employees of various departments of the university were awarded certificates by the rector's order in various nominations based on the results of excellent work for the past year.
A festive concert prepared by the creative teams of VGMU took place.