Kaunas University of Medicine

Kaunas University of Medicine is a medical school in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was founded in 1919 and from 1922 it was a Faculty of Medicine of University of Lithuania.

In 1950, after the closure of Kaunas University, it was reformed into a separate institution and had been known as Kaunas Medical Institute until 1998.

It has its present name since 1998. University has five faculties (medical, pharmacological, odontological, nursing, and social health together with four research institutes. It uses the Kaunas University Hospital and Kaunas Red Cross Hospital as a teaching hospitals.