On February 25, 2020, a joint Uzbek-Litvian Educational Forum was held at the Tashkent Medical Academy.

The forum announced that the Tashkent Medical Academy was the first among all medical universities in the country to be officially accepted as full members of the Association of Medical Schools of Europe. This significant event took place during the visit to TMA of the vice president of the Association, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University (Lithuania), Professor Algirdas Utkus and the participation of the delegation of Vilnius University in the Educational Forum jointly with the Tashkent Medical Academy. The certificate on the official acceptance of TMA as a member of the European Association, on the sidelines of the forum, was awarded to the rector of the Tashkent Medical Academy, Professor Laziz Tuychiev.