The National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya was named after the 19th Century surgeon and pioneer of anaesthesia Nikolay Pirogov.
It has been providing medical education in Vinnytsia since 1921. It attained university status in 1994 and National status in 2002.
It offers courses in medicine, pediatrics, dentistry, medical psychology and pharmacy.
There are also Institutes for Postgraduate Education, Training Foreign Students, and Public Health. Their courses include work at 24 medical and preventative institutions in Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi and Zhytomyr.
There is a long tradition of international links, with the first overseas students admitted in 1961, their preparatory faculty formed in 1979 and the partnership with the University of Munster, Germany dating to 1993. There are four dedicated hostels for international students.
