Kishinev Medical Institute

The Kishinev Medical Institute trains physicians and pharmacists. Founded in 1945, it comprises (1972) the medical, pediatric, public health, stomatological, and pharmaceutical departments and the department for the specialization and advanced training of physicians. It also has a graduate school, 60 theoretical and clinical subdepartments, a central scientific research laboratory, and a museum. The institute’s library has 600,000 holdings.

In 1972, the institute had an enrollment of more than 5,000 students and a teaching staff of about 600 teachers, including 40 professors and doctors of sciences and 350 docents and candidates of sciences. The institute is authorized to accept candidate’s and doctoral dissertations for defense. Over the years it has trained more than 8,000 specialists. The institute has been publishing Trudy since 1949.