Training at Ternopil State medical Institute was inaugurated on September 1, 1957 by the resolution of the Ukrainian government of April 12, 1957. In the city that had been almost completely destroyed during the World War II and just began raising from the ruins, it was the first higher educational establishment. Three days after the government resolution, the appointed Director (Rector) of the Medical Institute, Candidate of Medical Sciences, surgeon P.O. Ogiy (later on M.D., Professor) and prof. Martynyuk A.H., the vice-rector, arrived to Ternopil. By the decision of the Regional Council, two educational buildings and two hostels were allotted to the Institute. The clinical base was provided by the City Hospital that had been functioning then as the Regional Hospital. Morphological building, Regional Hospital and a new hostel were under construction. 19 departments began functioning at the Institute, 66 teachers were working there (including 1 M.D., and 17 Candidates of Med. Sc.).

Standing at the starting line were young teachers-scientists, later on professors, honoured scientists K.V.Kovanov, Yu.T.Komorovsky, A.I. Lokay, I.O.Sytnyk, M.P.Skakun. Among the founders was Ye.H. Honcharuk, an assistant teacher of General Hygiene Department, later on Academician of the National Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine and many international academies, Rector of the Kyiv National Medical University named after O.O.Bohomolets.

The Medical Faculty of the University of Kiev, reorganized in 1920 into the Kiev Medical Institute, was founded in April 1840. 22 medical students who entered the faculty listened to the first lecture on anatomy on September 9, 1841.

Due to the lack of proper premises for the medical faculty, its opening was scheduled for 1842, when the construction of the main university building was to be completed. However, the need for doctors, especially in connection with the widespread epidemics in the country, was so great that in December 1840 Minister Uvarov, to change the previous decree, proposed to the administration of the University of Kiev in 1841/42 AD. to open the 1st year of the medical faculty.

The term of study at the medical faculty was 5 years, and at all other faculties - 4 years.

According to the statute of 1842, intended exclusively for the University of Kiev, the medical faculty was to consist of the following departments: 1) physiological anatomy with micrography; 2) physiology of a healthy person; 3) physiology of a sick person, or pathological physiology with pathological anatomy; 4) general therapy and "medical substance" with the necessary instructions on toxicology; 5) operative surgery with a surgical clinic; 6) theoretical surgery with ophthalmology; 7) private therapy in full; 8) therapeutic clinic with semiotics; 9) theoretical and practical obstetrics, obstetric clinic; 10) state medicine, which includes: a) forensic medicine; b) medical police with hygiene; c) medical law, ie a summary of the case, the order of service, as well as information on civil service and jurisprudence to the extent necessary for the doctor; d) veterinary police with epizootic diseases. These departments were to be replaced gradually, with the organization of senior courses at the medical faculty.

Kyiv Medical University is the best private university (according to the Rankings-2019). Over 3900 people, 700 of which are interns, are studying here. About 35% of the contingent consists of international students from 62 countries of the world.The University was founded by Valerii Pokanevych (1950-2012) — Honored Doctor of Ukraine, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor, General Director of the Ukrainian Association of Traditional Medicine, Chief Freelance Specialist of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in “Folk and Alternative Medicine”.Valerii was at the origins of building a system of human resources in the field of folk and alternative medicine of Ukraine. Thanks to his initiative and participation in 1998, the “Doctor of Folk and Alternative Medicine” specialty was launched and included in the list of medical positions in health care facilities.In 1992, Valerii Pokanevych established Kyiv Medical University. Its work was based on the need to introduce the most effective, scientifically sound methods and tools of folk and alternative medicine to the complex therapy of diseases in the system of the Ukrainian medical institutions. The implementation of this concept is reflected in the functioning and development of a new type of higher medical educational establishment, where today’s education is a combination of the principles of both classical and folk and alternative medicine – something V.Pokanevych dreamed of so much.

In the year 1921, National Pirogov Memorial Medical University was founded. It was named after M.I.Pirogov, in 1960. It is a government co-education medical university.

Vinnitsa National Medical University is recognized by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, and the Medical Council of India (MCI). Thus, the Indian students can sit for the FMGE or MCI Screening Test after completing their degree from Vinnitsa National Medical University. The Vinnytsia Medical Institute has been certified and accredited to the IV level of accreditation since 1994, and it has also been granted the status of the University.

Dnepropetrovsk Medical Academy (DMA) – Center of Education, Science, and Culture of the highly industrial region of Ukraine, Dnieper. The city of Dnepr is the main Industrial city of Ukraine. Above than 40% industry of Ukraine is located in Dnipropetrovsk. It is known as the business city of Ukraine. The city is highly developed and well established in all aspects of life. Dnipro State Medical University (DMA) is one of the oldest higher educational institution of Ukraine having 4th (the highest) level of accreditation in Ukraine.Dnipro State Medical University (DMA) was founded on September 15, 1916, on the basis of Ekaterynoslavsky higher female courses Institute. Institute acquired the status of State Academy in 1920 and it was confirmed again to Dnipro State Medical University (DMA) in Ukraine in 1994 by the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 224 dated 20 April 1994.