The Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education was established on 11 November 1923 and was called “Ukrainian State Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians”.
[citation needed] The campus includes the Museum of Sexual Cultures, established in 1999, based on the private collection of Valentin Kryshtal.
On the 5 faculties of the academy foreign students study at clinical ordinatura, postgraduate courses and probation courses in following specialties: obstetrics and gynecology, anesthesiology, gastroenterology, dermatovenereology, endocrinology, oncology, cardiology, clinical laboratory diagnostics, orthodontics, orthopedic stomatology, orptopedics and traumatology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, psychotherapy, radiology, preventive dentistry, therapy, urology, surgery, operative dentistry, ultrasound diagnostics and others.
At the moment academy has made an international contracts with next organizations: Sana’a University (Republic of Yemen), Baltic International Academy (Latvia), Akaki Tsereteli State University (Kutaisi, Georgia), Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, State Medical University (Tbilisi, Georgia), Higher Medical School (Sosnowiec, Poland), Tashkent Institute for Doctors’ Improvement (Uzbekistan), Azerbaijan State Institute for Doctors’ Improvement (Azerbaijan, Baku), Centre of International programs under Ministry of Education of Republic of Tajikistan, State-financed educational institution of higher professional education “Kursk State Medical University” (Russia, Kursk).
In this centre the lectures with use of modern equipment, international videoconferences with the participation of doctors from the USA, Canada, Poland and others are held.