The recruitment of students for admission to military training programs for officers and sergeants of the reserve is carried out at the military department at the Non-commercial Joint-Stock Company «West Kazakhstan Medical University named after M.Ospanov».
Applications from students to participate in the competition to study at the military department will be accepted through the e-government web portal, www.egov .kz, starting from February 1 of the year of admission.
The term of military training is set:
- According to the military training program for reserve officers – at least 2 years and 5 months;
- According to the military training program for reserve sergeants – at least 1 year and 5 months.
Full-time university students, citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan who are not older than 24 years old and have no criminal record, are allowed to participate in the competition.
The application is accepted until September 30 of the year of admission.
For training in military reserve officer training programs, applications are submitted by students in different courses of study, depending on the duration of the bachelor's degree program in the following order:
- In the first year, students enrolled in the bachelor's degree program with a 3–year term of study, including students enrolled in educational programs that provide shorter study periods.;
- in the first and second years– students enrolled in the bachelor's degree program with a 4-year study period;
- In the first, second and third years, there are students enrolled in the bachelor's degree program with 5–year and 6-year study periods.
For training in military training programs for reserve sergeants, applications are submitted by students in different courses of study, depending on the duration of the bachelor's degree program, in the following order:
- in the first year, students enrolled in the bachelor's degree program with a 2–year study period (educational programs providing shorter study periods);
- in the first and second years – students enrolled in the bachelor's degree program with a 3-year study period;
- in the first, second and third years, students enrolled in the bachelor's degree program with a 4-year study period;
- in the first, second, third and fourth years – students enrolled in the bachelor's degree program with a 5-year and 6-year study period.
Students who have served their military service are allowed to participate in military training out of competition on a gratuitous (by state educational order) basis after passing a medical examination.
Students who have completed a full course of military training under the reserve officers program and have passed the final exams are presented with the military rank of «reserve lieutenant» and «reserve medical service lieutenant» upon completion of the organizations of higher and (or) postgraduate education.
Students who have completed a full course of military training under the reserve sergeants program and have passed the final exams are presented with the military rank of «reserve sergeant», «reserve medical service sergeant».
After graduating from the Military department, graduates can get a job in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Graduates of the medical profile can get a job as doctors in military medical institutions and units of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
During their service, military doctors can improve their skills in institutions of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in the Center for Military Medicine of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as in military medical institutions of the near and far abroad. It is also possible to participate in peacekeeping operations as part of the UN coalition forces.