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TBILISI STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (TSMU)
Tbilisi State Medical University (TSMU) is one of the most prestigious and oldest schools in Europe, offering variety in both undergraduate and post-graduate, updated study curricula. The academic process encompasses modern programs at international standards, with lectures and workshops conducted by experts from corresponding fields.
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HISTORY:
When the doors to this institution were first opened in 1918, it was under the banner of the faculty of Medicine of the Tbilisi State University. As the faculty expanded, it became independent Tbilisi State Medical Institute from 1930 till 1991 when it became the Tbilisi State Medical University (TSMU) as it is today.
On celebrating ninety years of existence, TSMU can boast about being one of the largest medical universities in Eastern Europe, as well as being the largest in Georgia. Since the establishment of the English-Medium Medical Faculty of General Medicine in 1996, the number of English speaking students enrolled at the university has been increasing dramatically.
Right at the point where east meets the west, this is where TSMU is situated. Thus, there is no mystery that TSMU is a fusion of cultures and ideas.
Study at TSMU is a mixture of professor guided and student independent work. Students are expected to be self-motivated and mature about their studies.
All programmes are worked out on the basis of accepted standards by the medical universities and colleges of European countries, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
PRESENT AND FUTURE:
THE ECTS
The entire academic process is based upon the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), which provides a way of measuring and comparing learning achievements, and allowing for the transfer of these achievements from one institution to another.
European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) helps higher education institutions to enhance their cooperation with other institutions by:
-Improving access to information on foreign curricula, and
-Providing common procedures for academic recognition.
International Organisation and Association Membership
TSMU has full membership with the following international bodies:
-European Universities Association (EUA)
-Association of Medical Education of Europe (AMEE)
-European Association of International Education (EAIE)
-European Medical Students Association (EMSA)
-International Association of Universities (IAU)
International Collaboration
TSMU closely collaborates with:
-World Health Organization (WHO)
-World Federation of Medical Education (WFME)
-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
-Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
International Partner Universities
Armenia
~Yerevan State Medical University
Austria
~Medical University of Gratz-
~Medical University of Vienna-Austria
Azerbaijan
~State Medical University of Azerbaijan
~Qafqaz University, Baku
Belarus
~Belarusian Medical Academy of Post Graduate ~Education
Belgium
~Catholic University of Louvain
~University of Liege
Bulgaria
~Medical University of Sophia
~Varna Medical University
Canada
~University of Quebec in Chicoutimi (UQAC)
Egypt
~Ain-Shams University of Cairo
France
~Mediterranean University of Marseille
~University of Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
~University Rene Descartes –Paris 5
~United Nations University
Germany
~Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena
~University of Duisburg - Essen
~Ludwig - Maximilians - University (Faculty of Medicine)
~Karlsrue Neurosurgery Clinic
~University of Luebeck/Research Center Borstel
~Cardio Surgery Clinic in Oldenburg
Charite University (Berlin)
Hungary
~University of Szeged
Semmelweis University
Israel
~Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Italy
~University of Rome ’’TOR VERGATA’’
~Second University of Naples
Universita Degli Studi di Genova
Kazakhstan
~Almaty State Institute of Advanced Medical Education
Latvia
~Riga Stradins University
Lithuania
~Klaipeda University
Moldova
~State Medical and Pharmaceutical University "Nicolae Testemitanu"
Netherlands
~Rotterdam University of Midwifery
Norway
~Bergen University
Poland
~The Medical University of Lublin
~The Medical University of Warsaw
~Poznan University of Medical Sciences
Romania
~University of Sibiu
~University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila”
Babes-Bolyai University
Spain
~University of Barcelona
Turkey
~Hacettepe University, ankara
~Ege University, Ismir
~Atatürk University, Erzurum
~Agrı Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri
~Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun
~Kafkas University, Kars
~Rize University, Rize
~Abant Izzet Baysal University
~Erzincan University
UK
~University of Glasgow
Ukraine
~Kharkiv Medical academy of Postgraduate Education
~Donetsk State Medical University
~Lugansk National Pedagogical University
~National University of Pharmacy (Kharkiv)
~Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy (Poltava)
~Ternopil State Medical University
~Bukovinian State Medical University, Chernivtsi
USA
~Scranton University
~Emory University
~Albany University
Uzbekistan
~Samarkand State Medical Institute
Additional information can be found on The University’s Official Website