Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (TUOMS) (Persian: دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تبریز, Danushgah-e 'lum-e Pezeshki-ye Tebriz) is public medical sciences university located in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, Iran. It is ranked as one of Iran's top medical school, with more than 5000 students.
The University consists of eleven faculties: Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Paramedical Sciences, Health, Nutrition and Food Sciences, Rehabilitation, Nursing & Midwifery, Health management and medical informatics, Advanced Medical Sciences and Traditional Medicine. The school offers professional degrees in Medicine (M.D.), Dentistry (D.D.S.), Pharmacy (Pharm.D.); Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D.) in various other medically related subjects. The school also offers technical courses in pursuit of Associate's degrees and certification in medically related fields.
In addition, TUMS operates over 10 teaching hospitals and is a major medical care provider in East Azarbaijan Province and the surrounding provinces.
History
The university was first established by the autonomous Azerbaijan People's Government under Jafar Pishevari on June 12, 1946, as the University of Azerbaijan () with faculties in Medicine, Agriculture and Pedagogy. However, the university closed in November with the collapse of the autonomous government. It was re-opened on October 30, 1947, which is now officially set as its inauguration date. The university was called the University of Azarabadegan prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and renamed the University of Tabriz afterwards. In 1985, the Iranian Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education took over the departments and faculties in the medical sciences and the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences became an independent institution.
Chancellors
Chancellors of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences since its detachment from University of Tabriz:
Dr. Seyyed Kazem Madayen, MD, Urologist
Dr. Hossein Sadeghi Shoja, Physiologist
Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, MD, Cardiac Surgeon
Dr. Mohammad Nouri, PhD, Biochemist
Dr. Ahmad Reza Jodati, MD, Cardiac Surgeon
Dr. Ahmad Ali Khalili, MD, Cardiac Surgeon
Dr. Alireza Yaghoubi, MD, Cardiac Surgeon
Dr. Mohammad Hossein Somi, MD, Gastroenterologist
Faculties
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences consists of 10 faculties which train students for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate degrees. Being the largest faculty of the university, the Faculty of Medicine operates university-affiliated hospital and outpatient clinics together with departments of Basic Sciences which reside in the faculty. Basic Sciences departments of the Tabriz Faculty of Medicine include: Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry & Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology, Medical Physics and Community Medicine. Clinical departments are located in the university affiliated hospitals and include: Internal Medicine (other than Cardiology), Cardiology, Neurology, Infectious Diseases, Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Urologic Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Dermatology, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Radiology, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Gynecology & Obstetrics, Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine.
Tabriz Faculty of Pharmacy (Also known as Tabriz Pharmacy School) is ranked as the second most outstanding pharmacy school in the country. In addition to training general pharmacy doctors (Pharmacists), it provides Ph.D. degrees in the fields of Pharmaceutics, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Pharmacognosy, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences has 11 faculties: Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Pharmacy Faculty of Dentistry Faculty of Health Faculty of Nutrition Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery Faculty of Health Management and medical informatics Faculty of Para medicine Faculty of Rehabilitation Faculty Of Advanced Medical Sciences Traditional Medicine And Maragheh Faculty of Nursery & Midwifery Sarab Faculty of Medical Sciences