In 1922 a medical faculty was founded on the base of State University.
In 1930 Yerevan State Medical Institute was founded.
In Yerevan state Medical Institute was renamed in University after Mkhitar
heratsi.
There are 6 Faculties in the Yerevan State medical University:
| 1. Faculty of General Medicine | (Doctor of Medicine, MD) | number of students - 1428 |
| 2. Faculty of Stomatology | (Doctor of Dentistry, DDS) | number of students - 385 |
| 3. Faculty of Sanitation-Hygiene | (Doctor of Sanitary) | number of students - 327 |
| 4. Faculty of Pharmacy | (Doctor of Pharmacy, PharmD) | number of students - 209 |
| 5. Faculty of Pediatrics | (Doctor of Pediatrics) | number of students - 741 |
| 6. Faculty of Militaray Medicine | (Doctor of Medicine, MD) | number of students - 96 |
| 7. Faculty of Foreign Students | (Study in different Faculties) | number of students - 462 |
The duration of studies is:
Faculty of General Medicine 6 years + Residenship
Faculty of Sanitation-Hygiene 6 years + Residenship
Faculty of Pediatrics 6 years + Residenship
Faculty of Pharmacy 5 years + Internship
Faculty of Stomatology 5 years + Internship
The total number of the students of the Yerevan State Medical University is 3648. There is a Preparatory Faculty for foreign citizens where study 70 students. In 1996 in the University the medical collage was founded with the duration of studies 3 years.
In the University there are the following 57 Chairs:
The total number of teaching staff is 568.
| N | CHAIRS |
| 1. | Theoretical |
| 2. | Military and External medicine |
| 3. | Medical Biology and Genetics |
| 4. | Biological Chemistry |
| 5. | Normal Anatomy |
| 6. | Histology |
| 7. | Normal Physiology |
| 8. | Microbiology, Immunology and Virusology |
| 9. | Pharmocology |
| 10. | Pathological Anatomy |
| 11. | pathological Physiology |
| 12. | General Hygiene and ecology |
| 13. | Organization of Social Medicine and Health |
| 14. | Profile Hygiene |
| 15. | Operative Surgery and Local Anatomy |
| 16. | Technology of Drugs and Organization of Pharmacological Goods |
| 17. | Pharmacological Chemistry |
| 18. | Epidemiology |
| Clinical | |
| 1. | Military Field Surgery, Stomatology and Therapy |
| 2. | Course of Clinical Immunology |
| 3. | Sport Medicine and Rehabilitation |
| 4. | Radial Diagnostics, Radial Therapy and Oncology |
| 5. | Propaedeutics of Internal Diiseases |
| 6. | tuberculosis |
| 7. | Infectious Diseases and Children s Infection |
| 8. | Derma-Venereal Diseases |
| 9. | nervous Diseases |
| 10. | Psychiatry |
| 11. | Internal Diseases N1 |
| 12. | Internal Diseases N2 |
| 13. | Internal Diseases N3 |
| 14. | Surgical Diseases N3 |
| 15. | General Surgery |
| 16. | Surgical Diseases N1 |
| 17. | Surgical Diseases N2 |
| 18. | Orthopedic and Traumatology |
| 19. | LOR Diseases |
| 20. | Ophtalmologic Diseases |
| 21. | Forensic Medicine |
| 22. | Gynecology and Obstetrics N1 |
| 23. | Pediatrics N3 |
| 24. | Childrens Stomatology |
| 25. | Pediatrics N1 |
| 26. | Pediatrics N2 |
| 27. | childrens surgery |
| 28. | therapeutical Stomatology |
| 29. | Orthopedic Stomatology |
| 30. | Surgical Stomatology |
| 31. | Clinical Pharmocology and Pharmacognocy with Botany |
| 32. | Obstetrics and gynenecology N2 |
| 33. | Social Sciences |
| 34. | Physical Training and Health |
| 35. | Russian Language |
| 36. | Foreign and Latin languages |
| 37. | Medical and Biological Physics, Informatics and medical Equipment |
| 38. | General and Bioorganic Chemistry |
| 39. | Languages for foreign Students |
| 40. | Armenian Language and Medical Terminology |
