Islamic Countries’ Medical Universities Delegates Sign an MoU for Prospective Collaboration

Islamic Countries’ Medical Universities Delegates Sign an MoU for Prospective Collaboration
Date: 2/21/2011

TUMSPR News: Delegates from five Islamic Countries’ Medical Universities signed a memorandum of understanding for future collaboration on February 20, 2011.

Delegates from five Islamic Countries’ Medical Universities, Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, Syria and Turkey signed a 10-article memorandum of understanding with for future collaboration on February 20, 2011.

The memorandum achieved one of its objectives, establishment of a permanent secretariat, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), which seeks to coordinate between member universities in gathering, interpreting, summarizing and reporting the shared data.

The other items included assignment of focal point in each university, dissemination of information through libraries, cooperation in education, research and health services, development of a network of academic human resources and establishment of sub-networks in traditional medicine and medical ethics.

Chancellors of Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tabriz and Mashad universities of medical sciences had participated in the meeting as had done the delegates from foreign universities: Dr. Ahmad Pirzad, from Kabul Medical University, Dr. Mohammad Salem Rekab from Damascus University, Dr. Mehmet Bilgin Saydam from Istanbul university, Dr. Awang Bulgiba Mahmud fro University of Malaya, Dr. Riaz Hussain and Dr. Mussarat ul-Hasnain from Punjab Medical College.

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