SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

The Slovak Medical University in Bratislava (SMU) is an educational institution that proudly maintains the tradition of educating health workers in specialized studies and lifelong continuing education in Slovakia.

The Slovak Institute for Postgraduate Education of Physicians, established on 1 May 1953 in Trenčín, laid the foundations for the education of health professionals in Slovakia. From July 7, 1966, the Institute moved to a new facility in Bratislava, under a new name: Institute of Higher Education of Physicians and Pharmacists, which remained until 1991. . On July 1, 1991, the name was changed to Institute of Higher Education of Physicians and Pharmacists. Education of Professionals in Healthcare, and later, as a result of requirements in practice, the last change on November 1, 1998 transformed it into the Slovak Academy of Postgraduate Medicine in Bratislava.

On September 1, 2002, the Slovak Medical University was founded in Bratislava by Law No. 401/2002 Coll. of the National Council of the Slovak Republic on the establishment of the Slovak Medical University, as a state university of higher education.

The Slovak Medical University in Bratislava is the only university in Slovakia that provides monothematic education for the health professions in the three degrees of higher education and, at the same time, the only institution that has guaranteed the complex education of health workers in Slovakia under various names since 1953.

The Slovak Medical University is a public institution of higher education operating under the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, with the following four faculties

    Faculty of Medicine
    Faculty of Public Health
    Faculty of Nursing and Professional Health Studies
    Faculty of Health


The Slovak Medical University is an apolitical institution, acting within the global university charter Magna Charta Universitatum, which recognizes the values of democracy, humanism and tolerance. It leads students toward adherence to the Hippocratic Oath, protection of life and health from conception to dignified natural death.

The full name of the university is:
"Slovak Medical University in Bratislava".