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Belarusian State Medical University is a leading institution of higher medical education in the Republic of Belarus with a well-deserved international prestige and recognition. The beginning of its history dates back to 1921 when the opening of Belarusian State University was announced, which at that time included Medical Faculty. Currently the educational process at the university is organized at 8 faculties: Faculty of General Medicine; Dental Faculty; Pediatric Faculty; Faculty of Preventive Medicine; Pharmaceutical Faculty; Medical Faculty for International Students; Faculty of Career Guidance and pre-University Training; Faculty of Advanced Training and Retraining of Personnel and Military Medicine Institute. More than 7 000 students, PhD students, clinical residents, including over 2 000 foreign citizens from about 50 countries, study in Russian and English at the University. Education at the university is practiceoriented and is organized at 72 departments, 43 of which are clinical ones, as well as in the Laboratory of Practical Training equipped with modern simulation devices. More than 1170 highly qualified teachers are involved in the educational process and modern information technologies and elements of distance learning are actively used: electronic educational and methodological complexes in the Moodle system in Russian and English; electronic performance register; electronic dean's office; electronic student card; a repository that includes more than 30 000 full-text documents in all studied disciplines; interactive whiteboards, interactive anatomical table; systems of interactive voting in classrooms; intranet sites for university employees and students, student's personal account. There is access to medical Internet sites; a video archive of unique and high-tech operations has been created to study surgical interventions and new diagnostic techniques, projects have been implemented to broadcast the operation from operating units to the classrooms of the surgical departments. The university has formed 29 scientific and pedagogical schools in biomedical and clinical disciplines. Training of PhD students and doctors of sciences is carried out at the Graduate School in 42 scientific medical and biological specialties. There are 9 Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense Committees in 20 specialties of medical and biological sciences. The university's unit, which ensures the organization, coordination and implementation of scientific, scientific and technical, innovative activities of the university and its management, is Scientific and Research Division. It was organized in 2012 on the basis of the Central Scientific Research Laboratory, the history of which began in 1952. The Scientific and Research Division includes 4 scientific laboratories, more than 20 scientific groups, other departments that ensure the organization, coordination and implementation of scientific, scientific and technical or innovative activities of the university.