Date: 6/2/2010
TUMSPR News: The President of Algiers University, Dr. Tahar Hadjar, met with the President of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Dr. Bagher Larijani on May 31, 2010.
Dr. Tahar Hadjar, the President of Algiers University, met with the President of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Dr. Bagher Larijani on May 31, 2010.
First, Dr. Larijani briefly introduced the University and singled out the differences between the former and the present educational system that runs under the Ministry of Health and Medical Education and is responsible for the education, research and health of the people in the area under the University coverage. Iran has 42 provinces and each province except Tehran that has three state-run universities, has a medical university.
He then referred to the number of students at post-grad and graduate degrees at the university and said that the university was responsible for the education of 50% of PhD student in Iran regarding medical sciences and 70% of the students were at this educational level right now.
The school of medicine, as the chancellor put it when introducing the 9 school of the institution, has nearly 4000 medical students and it offers nearly all specialties and subspecialties in the field. The pharmacy school, a regionally important school, recruits about 100 Ph.D. students annually and supports six round-the-clock pharmacies throughout the city and produces some medication such as Erythropoietin for domestic use.
The chancellor also introduced the School of Traditional Medicine which was established two years ago and recruits PhD students among medical doctors. This school and the Medical Ethics research center are both unique to the University.
Among the 47 research centers 9 are centers of excellence and hematology-oncology research center with about 3000 bone marrow transplants is among the top three in the world, he said.
Having access to 7000 scientific journals and a large website with 10000 pages and publishing 32 medical journals the University offers a rich scientific repertoire to medical students, academic and researchers.
The chancellor said that the recent ESI ranking has places the clinical medicine, pharmaceutical and toxicology research centers among the 1% institutions in May 2010. He then mentioned the preliminary steps that have been taken to improve the University's position in the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking_368 in 2009. He finally introduced the International branch of the University on Kish Island with 400 medical, pharmacy and dentistry students.
Admiring the presentation given by the chancellor, Dr. Tahar Hadjar said "This presentation depicts the great job done in clinical medicine and pharmacy and as we know University of Tehran quite well, creating bonds with TUMS is as important to us and we are educating some professors in Algeria to follow their research in UT".
He then introduced the Algiers University which established in 1853, and it is the most important school is the university with 12000 students, 1650 faculty members, 16 research centers active in all fields of medicine and its 14 hospitals having both general and specialty wards. He said that Algeria has 11 schools of medicine and they similarly offer both education and health services.
Dr. Hadjar justified the separation of the University because of the great number of students there that mounted to a number close to 130000 to Algiers I, including schools of medicine, law, social sciences and languages and Algiers II, including schools of economy, and foreign languages with 40000 students.
Dr Djabar called the meeting an opportunity for bilateral scientific collaborations and exchange of faculty members, sharing educational programs, and publication of papers from both universities. He then said exchange programs for students at grad, postgrad and specialty degrees had to be foreseen too.
Welcoming the suggestions of Dr. Hadjar, Chancellor Larijani put the responsibility for further coordination until reaching a tangible result on the Internal Relations Office manager's shoulders, Dr. Ghazi-khanari.
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The report was prepared by Dr. S. Behnam Hashemi.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=17283
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