I.K. Akhunbaev Kyrgyz State Medical Academy

I.K. Akhunbaev Kyrgyz State Medical Academy is the first medical university in Kyrgyzstan opened in 1939.

Today, KSMA has become the leader in higher medical education in Kyrgyzstan and one of the leading medical universities in Central Asia and CIS region, with a wide-range of expertise area and strong systems, practices and traditions in medical and pharmaceutical training.

More than 11 000 students are currently studying in KSMA, including more than 3 700 foreign students, 2 000 clinical residents, more than 200 graduate students and doctoral students and more than 300 students  in the Medical Lyceum. Training is available in three languages - Kyrgyz, Russian and English.

The main MISSION of the Medical Academy is to improve the health and quality of life of the population, to meet the needs of society and the individual in intellectual, cultural and moral development through quality and continuous training of medical and pharmaceutical personnel, based on the trinity of innovative education, science and clinical practice in accordance with the challenges of the 21^st century.

The academy aims to implement its mission in accordance with the highest professional and ethical standards that encourages students to take out fully their potential.

A system of comprehensive and continuous education is offered in the Academy, which ensures person’s educational potential and its growth starting from school to throughout their life. This system includes:

-       secondary general education for programs of 10 and 11 grades in the professionally-oriented Lyceum,

-       secondary vocational education at the Medical School for the visually impaired,

-       higher professional education at the faculties of undergraduate training in 8 specialties – General Medicine, Pediatrics, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Medical Preventive Care, Military Medicine and Biomedical Engineering

-       postgraduate higher education residency in 112 medical specialties,

-       postgraduate and doctoral studies in 80 specialties;

-       as well as additional professional education in continuing education courses in various fields of medicine and pharmacy.

The Academy has a strong infrastructure to ensure the high-standard education and practical training. It has 6 academic buildings, as well as a student campus in Tash-Dobo. There are 9 hostels for international and local students, equipped with all necessary appliances for comfortable life and study. 62 departments as well as 4 clinics and 2 medical centers ensure the high-quality educational process to all level students.

Also, KSMA owns a unique Museum of Plastination, which has educational exhibits representing natural organs and tissues of humans and animals preserved by replacing tissue fluid and fats with reactive polymers.

KSMA owns a large Library system with the collection of over 512 000 reading recourses on medicine, pharmacy and other relevant field of study. The library system includes 6 book distribution terminals, 7 reading rooms, and an electronic library.

KSMA has organized conditions for the full development of students as individuals through active educational and cultural work, academic mobility. There are equipped gyms, training grounds (football, basketball, volleyball, street workout) equipped with appropriate sports equipment for physical education and sports. KSMA has international institutional and program accreditations.

According to the results of the Global Aggregated Rating of 2022, KSMA entered the top 10% of the best universities in the world. And also, constantly ranks first in the independent ranking of universities in Kyrgyzstan (2021, 2022).

Currently, KSMA sets itself such breakthrough, at the same time, realistic goals:

˗        to become a research and innovation type university that trains specialists in demand in the labor market, capable of initiating and supporting innovative production and management technologies, progressive processes of social development of the country and the global community;

˗         become one of the leading centers of medical education and science in the Asian region, comparable with the leading medical universities in the world and at least enter the top 500 universities in Asia.

˗         to be a leader in academic medical education and the scientific community, while remaining the flagship of higher medical education, preserving and multiplying the traditions of domestic medicine; 

˗         to ensure a high level of quality education that contributes to the formation of a specialist who meets the new realities and challenges of the 21st century and the needs of employers .