Vladivostok State Medical University

Pacific State Medical University (Russian: Тихоокеанский государственный медицинский университет), formerly known as VSMU (Vladivostok State Medical University) is a university in Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia.

Pacific State Medical University

Тихоокеанский государственный медицинский университет
Motto	Debes, Ergo Potes (You Must, so you Can)
Established	1958
Rector	Valentin Shumatov (in Russian)
Academic staff	1000
Students	15,000
Address	690990, Vladivostok, Ostryakov Avenue, 2 , Vladivostok , Russia
Website	http://www.tgmu.ru/

At the beginning, since 1956 VSMU was the Medical Faculty of the Far Eastern State University, but in 2 years it became Vladivostok State Medical Institute (VSMI). Institute was reorganized into the University in 1995, in 2013 the University was renamed and reorganized into Pacific State Medical University.

Faculties of the Pacific State Medical University:

• The Medical Faculty
• The Military Faculty
• The Military Training Center
• The Pediatric Faculty
• The Faculty of Pharmacy
• The Faculty of Medical Prophylactic and Medical Biochemistry
• The Pharmaceutical Faculty
• The Stomatological (dental) Faculty
• The Higher Nursing Education and Social Work Faculty
• The Clinical Psychology Faculty
• The Continuous Medical Education
• The Postgraduate and Further Degree Studies
• Pre-University Training

Among the medical Universities of the Far East, PSMU - the only institution that trains doctors at Faculty Medical Prophylactic , providing preventive measures for healthy living of the population of Khabarovsk, Primorsky and Kamchatka Territories, Amur, Sakhalin and Magadan regions, the Republic of Sakha and Chukotka.