The Department of Fundamental Medicine as part of the Higher School of Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Health of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University was organized by the Order of the Rector in 2018. From this moment to the present, the department is headed by Ph.D. Sarsenova Lazzat Kadyrgalievna.

In the first academic year, 52 people were admitted to the General Medicine program, of which 34 were foreign students. The idea of ​​a new medical training program in the newly created school was an integrated interdisciplinary approach to teaching, the widespread introduction of active learning methods (PBL, TBL, CBL) and the maximum use of the capabilities of a multidisciplinary university. Often, classes were taught simultaneously by several different specialists, which provided an integrated consideration of the key phenomena of the functioning of the human body.

November 20, 2018 Student Initiation Ceremony “White Coat Ceremony”

From the very beginning, the staff of the department was represented by a multidisciplinary team: clinicians, pharmacists, biologists, chemists, physicists. The first staff of the department consisted of 10 teachers who did a great job at the stage of launching a new educational program. One of the first at the department began to work senior lecturers Kasenova G.T., Nyu M.A., Tolenova K.D. An invaluable contribution to the development of the content of the first disciplines was made by teachers - graduates of PhD and master's programs from foreign universities: Aubekerova A. (UCL), Zhanaeva A. (UMass), Oralkhan Zh. (Xinjiang Medical University), Tastanbekov D, (University of Sheffield), Aimbetov R. (MD Anderson Cancer Center).

Over the 5 years of its existence, the Department of Fundamental Medicine has grown qualitatively and quantitatively, retaining its multidisciplinary composition and combining experience and traditions in the face of the older generation of scientists and innovation and creativity in the face of young teachers.

In 2019, the department opened a new specialty "Pharmacy" and carried out the first admission of undergraduate students, which currently enrolls 25 students, including 8 foreigners. In 2020, training began on the master's program "Pharmacy", in 2021 - PhD doctoral studies "Pharmacy". To date, 4 undergraduates have graduated, 16 undergraduates are studying, including 4 foreign students. 3 doctoral students of the specialty Pharmacy complete the 2nd year, including 1 foreigner. So the department began training pharmacists at all 3 levels of higher education. As part of the department, a team of highly qualified specialists in the field of pharmacy appeared, who determined the nature and direction of the development of pharmaceutical science at the Higher School of Medicine.

Since 2021, the department has begun training masters of health in the specialty “Biomedicine”. 2 Masters of Healthcare have been graduated in the EP "Biomedicine", which successfully work in the healthcare system. In developing this program, partners from the University of Nagasaki made an invaluable contribution. A branch of the department was opened on the basis of the City Pathological and Anatomical Bureau, contracts were concluded with scientific centers and clinics of the city.

In the same 2021, a nursing course was created at the department and the training of bachelors and masters of nursing began. The head of the course is Doctor of Medical Sciences, Acting Professor Ospanova Dinara Almakhanovna.