I studied medicine at LSMU for two years and the experience has been devastating.

The treatment of students is lousy and dehumanizing. In my case, my mother passed away while I was in second year and the university was not even able to offer their condolences, they only asked me for the death certificate.

Whenever I asked for help because I had to go to the hospital to see my mother, they told me that attending classes is compulsory and that if I wanted to, I could take a year off. That was the only solution they offered me. No psychologist, no chance to miss class, NOTHING.

They have a system made where you must pass all the subjects of each year or you can not go to the next. I know people who have had to repeat a WHOLE year taking only one subject for having failed.

Any problem that you may have as a student will not have the support of the university.

Most of the teachers do not speak English very well, they translate their old power points with google translator and have not been able to adapt to the pandemic.

Some teachings such as learning to make bandages are out of date, the subjects are not very well structured and the Lithuanian subject is a bigger headache than medicine.

Kaunas hospitals are very old and internships there are useless since you don’t know the language and the doctors and teachers don’t care about international students.

As a positive point, I can only highlight the laboratories that are very complete and the practical part of subjects such as biochemistry, where experiments are always carried out.

I hope this review helped.

In this university there is a lot of practice, being trained not only in the textbook, but also as a real patient, it is known that practice is often not enough for a compulsory subject, but there are excellent opportunities for it to be integrated into the work of the dominant section. The pace of learning is quite good, and information is a bit hefty, so it’s often difficult to engage in additional activities.