Head of Institution:

Igor O. Stoma, Doctor of Medicine, Associate Professor

Name of Institution: Education Institution "Gomel State Medical University"

Foundation Date:  November 14, 1990

Mailing Address: 246000, 5 Lange Street, Gomel, Republic of Belarus

How to get: from railway station and bus station: trolleybus No.1, 15, 16; bus No.3 to stop "Ploshchad Lenina"

Phone number(s):

+375 232 35 98 00 (Rector)

+375 232 35 97 83 (International Office)

Fax(es) :  +375232 35 97 00 

Website: www.gsmu.by

E-mail: gsmu [at] gsmu [dot] by (gsmu [at] gsmu [dot] by) 

interoffice [at] gsmu [dot] by (interoffice [at] gsmu [dot] by) (International Office)

Faculty of International Students

Specialties (links) for available programmes

The admission procedure for Clinical Residency

The admission procedure for Master’s Programme

The admission procedure for Doctoral Programme

The admission procedure for Postgraduate Programme

International affairs and major international actions

The University cooperates with a lot of universities from close neighbourhood and far-foreign countires. Joint research programmes are carried out within scientific cooperation. Over 50 cooperation agreements with foreign education institutions, research and other organisations have been signed by Gomel State Medical University and are in effect.

Academic exchanges, student, graduate student, teaching staff and researcher internship; information exchange, academic and scientific materials and publications; joint publication of textbooks, monographs on medicine; joint scientific and practical conferences, etc. – these are the forms of international cooperation.

University department staff are members of various domestic and foreign public academies and representatives in other institutions.

Gomel State Medical University is interested in academic and scientific cooperation with foreign partners.

GomSMU students participates in Erasmus+ academic mobility programme under the international academic cooperation agreement. There is an opportunity to study at Miguel Hernandez University in Spain for 2-5 months.

Our university has been implementing the agreement with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 2014. Joint project on mutual teacher and student academic mobility with the financial ЕС Erasmus+ support programme continues.

University students and teaching staff members take internships in various medicine areas.

Scientific cooperation with Fukushima Medical University and Nagasaki University is carried out in compliance with the Package of measures for developing cooperation between Belarus and Japan.

Gomel State Medical University signed scientific and practical cooperation agreement with Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova in 2020. The EU Erasmus+ programme was extended because of the epidemiological situation until 2023 under the international cooperation agreement with Miguel Hernandez University.

Education and medical science cooperation with the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) continues. Joint scientific research in the study of endocrine diseases is carried out under the student exchange programme, assistance in development of online learning and telemedicine projects using ICT improving health care programmes in Gomel region.

Antibiotic resistance microorganism studies are carried out under the tripartite international agreement of cooperation in research of microorganism sensitivity to antimicrobial drugs between Gomel State Medical University, Karaganda Medical University and the Research Institute of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy of Smolensk State Medical Academy. The spread of multidrug-resistant P.aeruginosa strain studies are held in Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan.

Joint work of preparing and holding scientific and practical workshops on clinical microbiology issues is carried out for specialists from the CIS countries as part of the Interregional Association for Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

The International Office coordinates signing of international cooperation agreements.

Cultural life

Every year the cultural events with student participation are held in the University: creativity competitions "Come on, you freshman", "Club of the Funny and Inventive People", sports and cultural events "Independence Day", International friendship evenings "Different but together", National diasporas days.

Accommodation conditions for foreign students

The University has five comfortable dormitories; foreign citizens live in two of them. The dormitories provide all the conditions for student living and recreation. The cost of living in student dormitories is $ 30-35 a month.

Contact information for foreign citizens willing to study

The International Office of the Education Institution "Gomel State Medical University".

Mailing address: 5 Lange Street, Gomel, 246000, Republic of Belarus

Phone: +375 232 35 97 83

Fax: +375 232 35 98 00

E-mail: interoffice [at] gsmu [dot] by (interoffice [at] gsmu [dot] by)

Working hours (Monday - Friday): 08.00 - 13.00; 13.30 - 17.00