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We hope you find what you are looking for. This website can only give a brief
glimpse of the University's activities.
Founded 80 years ago as Tbilisi
Medical Institute on the basis of the Faculty of Medicine at Tbilisi State
University (TSU) in 1930. Tbilisi State Medical Institute has been renamed to
Medical University in 1992. Actually, TSMU became one of the high-ranking
state-supported institutions of higher education in the whole Caucasus region.
Currently there are almost 5000 undergraduate and 3000 postgraduate students at
the University of whom 10% come from foreign countries.
Tbilisi State
Medical University (TSMU) is a full member of the following international
organizations and associations:
- European Universities Association
(EUA)
- Association of Medical Education of Europe (AMEE)
- European
Association of International Education (EAIE)
- European Medical Students
Association (EMSA)
TSMU closely collaborates with:
- WHO
-
World federation of Medical Education (WFME)
- UNESCO
- Educational
Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
Tbilisi State
Medical University has undergone Institutional Evaluation Programme, performed
by Association of European Universities (For more information you can see
web-site: http://www.eua.be/eua/en/membership_evaluation_who.jspx)
TSMU
has been accepted by the Observatory Collegiums and became a member of the
"Magna Charta Universitatum" in September 2005
(http://www.magna-charta.org/magna_universities.html)
Role and
Mission of the TSMU
Following the European pattern of higher medical
education, the medical course at Tbilisi State Medical University lasts six
years. Its five faculties (Medicine, Stomatology, Pharmacy , Public Health and
Faculty of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) offer diverse programs and
educational opportunities to upper-division undergraduates and to graduate
students. The course structure is regularly reviewed and developed. In medicine
a completely new course has been introduced in 2006, firmly based on ECTS
system, helping of solving problems and introducing students to the real issues
of medicine at an early stage. Communication with patients and other medical
professionals features prominently in the new syllabus.
The primary
mission of the Tbilisi State Medical University is the preservation,
advancement, and dissemination of knowledge; To provide academic programs,
services, facilities, and technologies that support team-based learning and
contribute to students' intellectual development and person growth; To coach
and prepare students for job placement and career success, utilizing a network
of professional and business contacts; To instill the importance of ethical
behavior, responsibility, and professional standards. If we had to pick one word
to convey what distinguished the University in the beginning, what makes it
special now and what will remain its defining characteristic, it would be
'quality'.
Strategic Development
Here are the issues to
address, problems to be resolved and needs to be met:
- To promote the
development of Georgian and World cultural values, orientation towards the
ideals of democracy and humanism essential for the existence and development of
a civil society;
- To satisfy the requirements of one's personal
interests and capabilities in obtaining proper higher education, in raising the
level of one's skill and retraining;
- To realize personal potential,
develop the creative skills, train the competent persons capable of satisfying
modern requirements, provide for competitiveness of graduates on domestic and
international labor markets, and offer to the interested person (persons) high
quality education that meets the requirements of the student community and the
public;
- To train and retrain new research personnel in order to ensure
the sustainability of country's development and higher education system itself;
to create, maintain and develop favorable conditions for research;
- To
encourage the mobility of students and academic personnel of higher education
institutions.
- Foster international cooperation and student/professor
exchange with the relevant foreign educational institutions;
- Encourage
the development of research by teaching, learning and qualification upgrading in
a free, democratic and socially fair environment;
The key challenges
higher medical schools are:
- know all's know how;
- flexible teaching
programs orientation towards technical methods of teaching;
- the notion of
autonomy itself and how it is linked to another central issues such as academic
freedom and accountability;
- sustain the pursuit of scholarship as the
University's chief purpose;
- become a united community with shared values in
which each person's contribution is respected;
- achieve a decent work-life
balance for staff;
- ensure that our research is internationally
competitive;
- attract and retain top quality staff;
- develop leaders and
managers for the future;
- develop an open and inclusive relationship with
our students;
- Patient treatment skills: trustful interaction with a patient
as with an individual, member of family and society; finding the best solution
for the patient from ethical and economical point of view;
- ease
restrictions on space and on funding for improvements to buildings and
facilities;
- achieve integrated information systems;
- define strategic
tasks and set institutional aims;
- secure continuous improvement and
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