As per the Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 1997, of the Medical Council of India, the minimum qualification for Indian students for admission to any Foreign Medical Institutions is as follows:

1. He/she shall complete the age of 17 years on or before 31st December, of the year of admission to the MBBS course.

2. He/she must have passed in 10+2 or equivalent examination in the subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English individually and must have obtained a minimum of 50% marks with practical taken together in Physics, Chemistry and Biology at the qualifying examination.

Duration of studies for different faculties of Smolensk State Medical Academy, Smolensk, Russia is as per the table given below.

There are 57 departments where 510 highly qualified teachers are working. All the above faculties and departments are well equipped with Electronic Microscopes, Bio-chemical Laboratories, Radio-Isotope Laboratories and lecture halls equipped with Tele-video and multimedia apparatuses. There are 20 hospitals with more than 6000 beds working under Smolensk State Medical Academy. Under Dental faculty more than 250 dentistry chairs for dental students are there. Today this Academy is a big scientific establishment where fundamental, applied and methodical scientific researchers are carried out.

The Medical Faculty is the biggest structural and functional sub-division of the Smolensk State Medical Academy. The Medical Faculty has 20 big hospitals under it. Modern diagnostics and treatment facilities are available here. Foreign scientists and professors from countries like USA, UK, Germany, Canada and other countries are invited to read lectures at the Smolensk State Medical Academy.

The Dental Faculty of Smolensk State Medical Academy has become one of the leading faculties in Russia for a period of about 40 years of its existence. It has all facilities to produce highly qualified dentists.