Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy

Among those specialists who will always be needed by society, doctors are considered to be one of the first.
One of the oldest universities in Ukraine, the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy, has a significant role in the development of the best national traditions of higher medical education . 

Its history is closely connected with the history of our city - a major industrial, scientific and cultural center of the state.

On October 4, 1784, Empress Catherine II signed a decree of the Senate, in which she ordered in the provincial city of Ekaterinoslav governorate to establish a University with a higher medical school under him. It took 132 years to open this medical school. In 1899 the Higher Mining School was opened, and on September 15, 1916, the Higher Womens Courses were established under it, as reported in the newspaper Russkoye Delo and in the Ekaterinoslavskaya Zemskaya Gazeta. On the same day, in the