Admission: general overview
The State Medical and Pharmaceutical University “Nicolae Testemitanu” from the Republic of Moldova founded in 1945 on the basis of the Medical Institute No.2 from Sankt-Petersbourg has become one of the most prestigious higher level establishments, member of European and World Universities Association.
The University accomplishes its principal mission of preparing medical and pharmaceutical specialists with high professional skills, forming scientific-academic staff and giving medical assistance.
Throughout the 58 years of its existence the university has prepared 32000 medical and pharmaceutical specialists. The level of preparation corresponds to the level of the modern requirements, the fact confirmed by the perseverant activity of the graduates in the medical establishments of the country and abroad.
The noble mission of preparing the staff belongs to the academic staff with a high intellectual potential. Within the 82 departments, 10 courses and 14 scientific laboratories there are 1000 specialists, including 15 academicians and corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova, honorary members of academies of other countries, 143 professors and 547 PhDs in medicine, 21 Laureates of the State Prize in the field of science and technique.
At present, at the university there are 3954 students and 1579 residents from the country and other 24 countries..
The concept of undergraduate and postgraduate continuous training of medical and pharmaceutical specialists at the university is directed to the high level of quality and includes three steps: The first step – undergraduate training assures preparation medical specialists at the Faculty of General Medicine, Stomatology and Pharmacy; 
The second step – postgraduate preparation is accomplished by means of the following programs:
residency, clinical internship, master’s, doctorate and post doctorate programs;
The third step – continuous improvement of skills of medical specialists.
Training includes different periods of studies: 6 years for the faculty of general medicine, 5 years for the faculties of stomatology and pharmacy. The training process is done in 4 languages: Romanian, Russian, French and English and is organized in conformity with the curricula and syllabi adjusted to the national and international educational requirements.
The process of training and improving the medical specialists is accomplished within the clinical units with the amount of 10000 beds placed in republican, municipal hospitals, research centres, dispensers, policlinics, pharmacies.
In order to carry out practical activities the University Stomatological Clinic and University Pharmaceutical Centre are at the disposal of students and residents. The university also has a training centre of practical skills tests with monitoring equipment and standardized patients – a unique university unit for the South-Eastern Europe.
A priority direction for the university is to establish international collaboration. By means of the university subdivisions, academic staff, students, residents, graduates, the university maintains and develops scientific, academic and clinical relationships with universities, research centres and hospitals from France, USA, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Holland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Syria, India, Turkey, Malaysia, Jordan, etc.
International collaboration contributes substantial to the promotion of the university abroad and to the recognition by the WHO, American International Health Alliance, USAID, World Bank, UNICEF, etc. The State Medical and Pharmaceutical University “Nicolae Testemitanu” is a member of the Francophone Agency of Universities (AUF), which includes 400 universities.
Within the francophone affiliate there are 140 students, the academic staff includes 62 teachers at 32 departments.
At the university there are 1000 students, doctorate students, and residents from Belgium, Germany, Italy, Greece, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, India, Bulgaria, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey, Tunisia, Sudan, etc.
On the basis of intergovernmental agreements, the diploma of the State Medical and Pharmaceutical University "Nicolae Testemitanu" is recognized in Romania, Bulgaria, Ex-Soviet countries and, generally, all over the world after a respective test of the graduate.
One of the accomplishments of the international collaboration is the opening of the Consulting Centre Manshell – LIT with the support of the British Company Manshell. This centre purports at familiarization of the students and residents with the educational system in Great Britain and USA, contemporary developments of the West-European medicine. The activity of the centre will contribute to the integration of the national medicine in the European community.
The university continues to improve the academic methodology by implementing up-to-date educational technologies: interactive techniques, virtual programs, videos, CDs, etc.
The students, residents and doctors use the university library which has 640 000 volumes. At present the project of automatisation the work of the library is being fulfilled. The electronic catalogue includes 50000 annotations concerning books, serials, articles and other documents registered in the library beginning with 1985.
Access to the electronic resources – local and international databases in the field of medicine, Internet, access to full-text databanks is possible within the Computer Centre “Infomedica” equipped with 64 computers connected to the internet.
Our partners from East Virginia Medical School, USA, and Hospital Complex “Saint Augustin” from Malestroit, France, contributed to the opening of the computer centre “Infomedica”.
At the disposal of the students and residents, there are 16 hostels (dorms) with the amount of 3000 places, cafeteria, and a resort on the shore of the Black Sea, Esthetical Education Centre, where our students may organize and take part in different events.
In the neighbourhood of the students’ hostels there is a sports centre having modern sports halls, volley, basket, handball and football fields, where our students can go in for sports.