Tbilisi State Medical University (TSMU is a leading medical university in Tbilisi, Georgia. More than 85 years have passed since Tbilisi State Medical Institute was founded on the basis of the faculty of Medicine at Tbilisi State University (TSU). In 1992 Tbilisi State Medical Institute has been renamed in Medical University.
Tbilisi State Medical University (TSMU) is the leading medical school in Georgia and one of the main academic and scientific institutions in the whole Caucasian region, established in the beginning of 20th century. Higher medical education history in Georgia accounts for approximately 100 years, and actually, this is the history of medical university.
The Faculty of Medicine of Tbilisi State University (1918-1930), Tbilisi State Medical Institute (1930-1992), Tbilisi State Medical University (1992 – up to day) – are considered as the development stages of one, traditional and powerful institution of higher education, undivided organism – the Tbilisi State Medical University.
TSMU fully recognizes its core role and responsibility in the development of democratic and knowledge-based society, public health maintenance and support.
Nowadays, TSMU is considered as the most demanded higher medical schools in Georgia, where more than 7000 undergraduate, as well as Master’s and Doctoral students receive education, including 2000 students from 53 countries worldwide. More than 1000 MDs and Stomatologists (Dentists) are involved in residency programs and postgraduate education.
Successful undergraduate, postgraduate and continuous professional development programs, Master’s and Doctoral courses, high professional education programs make Tbilisi State Medical University attractive for prospective students not only in Georgia, but forty other countries around the world.
TSMU provides competitive, international-level education through development of profound academic knowledge, professional ethics, values, clinical reasoning, practical and communication skills.
Main guiding principles of TSMU activities are fully in line with the strategies of the European educational system. Moreover, TSMU, to some extent, participates in the development of these principles. The university’s main directions and reforms are carried out dynamically in a systematic manner and have placed TSMU on a development path leading towards a common world and European Higher Education Area.
TSMU is one of the high-ranking public institutions of higher education throughout the whole Caucasus region. There are almost 7500 undergraduate and 3000 postgraduate students at the University about 25% of whom come from foreign countries. Tbilisi State Medical University has undergone Institutional Evaluation Programme, performed by Association of European.
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