According to the decree of the Minister of Defense the faculty of the "doctor's assistant training" which operated till August 1994, was reorganized as a secondary military medical school. The military medical school has been incorporated into the Military Medical Faculty since December 2000 in order to develop the educational process and focus on taking advantages of material and technical base and the potential of the professor - instructor staff of the Medical University. Military doctor's assistants are trained for 2 years in the military medical school.