Vinnitsa national medical university has been training competent doctors for approximately 100 years. It was started by the first President of the Ukraine’s Academy of Sciences, academician D.K. Zabolotny, after realizing the necessity of establishment of a medical educational institution in Vinnitsa in order to serve the nation’s requirement for improved healthcare. VNMU started as Vinnitsa Pharmaceutical Institute from (1921-1936), later it became Vinnitsa branch of All-Ukrainian Institute of Extra-Mural Medical Education (1930). At this point it got reorganized as Evening Industrial Medical Institute with two faculties – medical-preventive & pediatric and Vinnitsa Medical Institute (1934). In 1960, by the Ruling of President of the Supreme Body of the U.S.S.R., the Institute was renamed after N.I. Pirogov. By the year 1969, 2235 students were trained at two faculties of the institute (medical & pediatrics), and the faculties increased to 26 doctors of science and 106 candidates of science. On June 19, 2002, admiring the University’s nation-wide and international recognition VSMU was awarded National University status by orders of the President of Ukraine L.D. Kuchma endorsing the following specialties” “General Medicine “,"Dentistry", "Pediatrics", “Clinical Pharmacy”, "Pharmacy", “Medical Psychology.” Vinnytsia National Medical University (VNMU) is a higher medical institution founded in 1921. It is the successor of the “Vinnytsia Branch of the All-Ukrainian”, “The Vinnytsia Evening Industrial Medical Institute (1932)”, “Vinnytsia Pharmaceutical Institute (1921)” and, The Vinnytsia Medical Institute (1934)” as well as “Institute of Correspondence Medical Education (1930)” It has trained thousands of specialists who work in Ukraine and in many different countries of the world. As of today the training of specialists is performed at 53 chairs, where the proficient scientific-pedagogical staff works.