KYRGYZ STATE MEDICAL ACADEMY (KSMA) The Kyrgyz State Medical Academy (KSMA), full name I.K. Akhunbaev Kyrgyz State Medical Academy, was opened on 1 September 1939 in the city of Bishkek (formerly Frunze), Kyrgyzstan, with the recruitment of 200 students. The establishment of the institute was contributed to by the First Moscow Medical Institute, high medical schools of Saint-Petersburg, Almaty, Tashkent and other medical institutions.

HISTORY: On April 16, 1939, the Resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Kyrgyz SSR was adopted, the first paragraph of which read “Open the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute in Frunze on September 1, 1939, with 200 students enrolled for 1 course.” The foundation of the higher medical school was laid by professors and teachers from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kharkov and Kiev. In 1943, the first graduation of medical students was held – 120 doctors.
In 1943, the first graduation of students of our institute in the amount of 120 people took place, and all this year 250 doctors were released. After the end of the war in 1948 began the transition to a 6-year term of study. In the 2nd year, state transferable exams in anatomy, histology, physiology and biochemistry were introduced. In the 1950s, admission to the institute increased and the transition to the specialized training of doctors began. In the 1960s, a programmed control of knowledge using technical means was introduced at the institute. The scientific foundations of the study of disciplines were developed: educational elements, levels of their assimilation, graphological structures, etc. In the 70s, the medical institute became the leading in the USSR in solving problems of physiology, pathology, adaptation of the organism to mountain conditions. Relations with scientific institutes of the Soviet republics were developed on a qualitatively new basis: agreements on creative cooperation with many research institutes and universities of the country were drawn up. Joint scientific expeditions were conducted at republican research bases and laboratories under the guidance of scientists from our institute.