Welcome to the Tbilisi State Medical University's website!

We hope you find what you are looking for. This website can only give a brief glimpse of the University's activities.

Founded 80 years ago as Tbilisi Medical Institute on the basis of the Faculty of Medicine at Tbilisi State University (TSU) in 1930. Tbilisi State Medical Institute has been renamed to Medical University in 1992.  Actually, TSMU became one of the high-ranking state-supported institutions of higher education in the whole Caucasus region. Currently there are almost 5000 undergraduate and 203 postgraduate students at the University of whom 10% come from foreign countries.

Tbilisi State Medical University (TSMU) is a full member of the following international organizations and associations:

• European Universities Association (EUA)
• Association of Medical Education of Europe (AMEE)
• European Association of International Education (EAIE)
• European Medical Students Association (EMSA)

TSMU closely collaborates with:

• WHO
• World federation of Medical Education  (WFME)
• UNESCO
• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
• Schwaitser World Academy (SWA)

Tbilisi State Medical University has undergone Institutional Evaluation Programme, performed by Association of European Universities (For more information you can see web-site:  http://www.eua.be/eua/en/membership_evaluation_who.jspx)

TSMU has been accepted by the Observatory Collegiums and became a member of the "Magna Charta Universitatum" in September 2005 (http://www.magna-charta.org/magna_universities.html)

Role and Mission of the TSMU

Following the European pattern of higher medical education, the medical course at Tbilisi State Medical University lasts six years. Its five faculties (Medicine, Stomatology, Pharmacy , Public Health and Faculty of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) offer diverse programs and educational opportunities to upper-division undergraduates and to graduate students. The course structure is regularly reviewed and developed. In medicine a completely new course has been introduced in 2006, firmly based on ECTS system, helping of solving problems and introducing students to the real issues of medicine at an early stage. Communication with patients and other medical professionals features prominently in the new syllabus.

The primary mission of the Tbilisi State Medical University is the preservation, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge; To provide academic programs, services, facilities, and technologies that support team-based learning and contribute to students' intellectual development and person growth;  To coach and prepare students for job placement and career success, utilizing a network of professional and business contacts; To instill the importance of ethical behavior, responsibility, and professional standards. If we had to pick one word to convey what distinguished the University in the beginning, what makes it special now and what will remain its defining characteristic, it would be 'quality'.

        Strategic Development

Here are the issues to address, problems to be resolved and needs to be met:

• To promote the development of Georgian and World cultural values, orientation towards the ideals of democracy and humanism essential for the existence and development of a civil society;
• To satisfy the requirements of one's personal interests and capabilities in obtaining proper higher education, in raising the level of one's skill and retraining;
• To realize personal potential, develop the creative skills, train the competent persons capable of satisfying modern requirements, provide for competitiveness of graduates on domestic and international labor markets, and offer to the interested person (persons) high quality education that meets the requirements of the student community and the public;
• To train and retrain new research personnel in order to ensure the sustainability of country's development and higher education system itself; to create, maintain and develop favorable conditions for research;
• To encourage the mobility of students and academic personnel of higher education institutions.
• Foster international cooperation and student/professor exchange with the relevant foreign educational institutions;
• Encourage the development of research by teaching, learning and qualification upgrading in a free, democratic and socially fair environment;

The key challenges higher medical schools are:

• know all's know how;
• flexible teaching programs orientation towards technical methods of teaching;
• the notion of autonomy itself and how it is linked to another central issues such as academic freedom and accountability;
• sustain the pursuit of scholarship as the University's chief purpose;
• become a united community with shared values in which each person's contribution is respected;
• achieve a decent work-life balance for staff;
• ensure that our research is internationally competitive;
• attract and retain top quality staff;
• develop leaders and managers for the future;
• develop an open and inclusive relationship with our students;
• Patient treatment skills: trustful interaction with a patient as with an individual, member of family and society; finding the best solution for the patient from ethical and economical point of view;
• ease restrictions on space and on funding for improvements to buildings and facilities;
• achieve integrated information systems;
• define strategic tasks and set institutional aims;

• secure continuous improvement and innovation in the processes;