Kyrgyz State Medical Academy

KSMA is an 80 yrs old University of the State of Kyrgyzstan located in the city of Bishkek and created with the contribution of Russian Universities. KSMA was dependent on these Universities for Medical literature and teaching staff because the area was a war-plagued zone (the official website sys "...the hardships of wartime hampered the work..."). KSMA faced problems back then and it has a different set of challenges at this point in time. The international curriculum is quite new i.e. in 2000, it was introduced that brings some of these challenges into perspective. Today, a very few departments are fully functional and the Academy has limited PG options too.