What is Kharkov National Medical University?
{{Infobox university | name = '''Kharkov National Medical University''' | native_name = Харківський національний медицинський університет | image = Мединститут.jpg | latin_name = Universitas medicinalis nationalis Charkoviensis | motto = Valetudo est bonum optimum | established = 1805 | students = 6167 | city = [[Kharkov|Kharkiv]] | country = [[Ukraine]] |}} '''Kharkov National Medical University'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ksmu.kharkov.ua/|title=Official Site of Kharkiv National Medical University {{!}} Study Medicine in Ukraine|website=www.ksmu.kharkov.ua|language=en|access-date=2017-06-16}}</ref> ('''KNMU''', {{lang-ru|Ха́рьковский национа́льный медици́нский университе́т}}, {{lang-uk|Ха́рківський націона́льний медици́нський університе́т}}) is a [[medical school|medical university]] in [[Kharkov]], [[Ukraine]]. It was first known as '''Kharov State Medical University''' and then '''Kharkov Medical State Institute'''. At present, over 700 [[professor]]s [[teaching|teach]] at the university. Since 1951, the university has been training medical staff for countries of [[Eastern Europe]], [[China]], and [[Mongolia]]. Since 1961, it has been training [[student]]s from other countries of [[Asia]], [[Africa]], and [[Latin America]]. At present, there are about 3,400 foreign students in the Kharkiv National Medical University who study at the Preparatory Department, Medical, [[Nursing]] and Dental Faculties. They do postgraduate and clinical post-graduate (residency) courses as well as professional probation at departments of the university in Dental, therapy, orthopedics, [[surgery]], [[oncology]], [[psychiatry]], ophthalmology, [[obstetrics]] and gynecology, as well as other medical specialties. The University has trained over 5,000 specialists for 86 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the [[Middle East]]. == History == The history of the higher [[medical school]] in [[Kharkov|Kharkiv]] is more than 200 years long. It is closely connected with the history of