Emergency Medicine is clinical specialty dealing with assessment, resuscitation, stabilization, diagnosis and care of emergency patients. This field contains basic sciences, clinical knowledge and necessary skills to diagnose, make decision, and treat patients, in addition to manage department of emergency and unexpected events. Moreover, the graduate would be an effective member of medical team who cooperate with other medical specialists and work in pre-hospital emergency system.
Program Description:
Medical Emergencies are of strategic importance in the health service systems. Although the complexity of medicine and attention of medical experts toward specialized issues have led to the development of specialty and subspecialty fields, these issues have also improved the quality of emergency services. The idea to establish emergency medicine came from such problems.
Parallel to maintaining community based approach and considering the real needs of health system, the program has paid special attention to training of the graduates and has been developed on the basis of educational requirements. Emergency management system, unexpected event management, and prehospital emergency systems have been highlighted in this program.
Objectives:
At the end of the program learners will be competent in the following skills:
Duration:
Three years full-time (36 Months)
General Requirement: To apply for this program, you will need to fulfill a number of requirements, which can be found in the Graduate Admission Requirements.
Specific Requiremetns: Degree in General Physicians (M.D) or Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) by one of the Iranian or foreign universities.
The eligible candidate should have successfully completed an approved general physician program and should be proficient in English or Persian.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences has a rolling application system and reviews student applications all year round.
However, the deadline for the September intake is June 31.
For complete and comprehensive information about fees and expenses, please refer to the Education Fees and Yearly Expenses section.
Table: The overall structure of the course
|
Years of |
Department |
Time Span (month) |
|
First |
Internal |
1 |
|
General surgery |
1 | |
|
Cardiac |
1 | |
|
Anesthesia |
2 | |
|
Paediatric |
1 | |
|
Emergency |
6 | |
|
Second |
Orthopedic |
2 |
|
Obstetrics and Gynecology |
1 | |
|
Poisoning |
2 | |
|
Radiology |
1 | |
|
Emergency |
5 | |
|
Ophthalmology emergency |
15 days | |
|
ENT emergency |
15 days | |
|
Third |
NICU |
1 |
|
ICU |
1 | |
|
Emergency medical services |
1 | |
|
Emergency |
7 | |
|
Elective |
2 | |
| Total | 36 | |
Defense of the dissertation:
Students are required to present and defend their thesis with the approval of faculty committee.
Contact Information:
In case of any inquiries, please contact the Department of Emergency Medicine through the following:
Contact Person: Dr. Shahram Bagheri Hariri
Address: Department of Emergency Medicine, Imam Khomeini Complex Hospital, Keshavarz Blve. Tehran, Iran
Postal Code: 1419733141
Tel: +98 02166904848
Fax:
Website: http://medicine.tums.ac.ir/college/en/page/educational-groups
Email: hariri@tums.ac.ir
To contact the Office of International Admissions, please use the following information:
Tel.: (+98 21) 8890 2090-93, Ext.: 169
Email: admission@tums.ac.ir
Address: No. 21, Dameshgh St., Vali-e Asr Ave., Tehran 1416753955, Iran
In case you are ready to apply, please refer to TUMS Online Application Form below.
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