TBILISI STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

The Tbilisi State Medical University (TSMU) is the main center of higher medical education in Georgia, with an almost hundred-year history. Actually, higher medical education in Georgia is of the same age as well. It is noteworthy to emphasize that thousands of our university graduates continue their professional carriers in many leading clinics and institutions of Georgia, Europe and the world as a whole.
The core role and responsibility of TSMU in providing population health care activities is of great importance and respectable. While accomplishing this important mission TSMU is guided by the fundamental principles of its activities

Course Name: MD (Equivalent to MBBS in India)
Duration: 5 Years
Language of Instructions: English
Eligibility Criteria: Students passed 10+2 or its equivalent with aggregate 50% marks in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English can apply for MD/MBBS program in ETU.
Age Limit: Minimum 17 Years

• Academic Quality of knowledge and research;
• Democracy;
• Electiveness and transparency of the managing bodies;
• Academic freedom of both students and academic staff.

Successful undergraduate, postgraduate, continuous professional development programs, Master’s, doctoral courses and higher vocational education programs make TSMU attractive for prospective students not only in Georgia, but 65 other countries around the world.
The main guiding principles of TSMU activities are fully compatible with the approaches and strategies of the European educational system, and moreover, TSMU, to some extent, is involved in the development of these principles.
TSMU is a full member of the European Education Area that means its active involvement in functioning of this educational system, determining directions for development and implementation, establishing free and close scientific and academic relationships with the educational, scientific and clinical centers throughout the world.
Successful implementation of internationally recognized standards and approaches for medical education at the University promotes development of traditional educational programs, while the collaboration with foreign partners, long-term academic experience and worth-while efforts to address modern challenges to medical services thrusts us to take bold and innovative steps forward.

TSMU runs bachelor's, master's, doctoral and professional education Programs. In recent years new academic programs have been added:

American MD (USMD) Program – developed with Emory University School of Medicine (Atlanta, U.S.)

Joint International Bachelor's Program in “Public Health and Management” with UniMan Academy of Management and Performance (France). Upon completion, two - Georgian and French diploma will be issued;

Joint International Master's Program in “Public Health Management and Health Policy” at TSMU Faculty of Public Health.

Joint Georgian-Austrian Bachelor of Nursing program with Tyrol hospitals Union - the Western Education Centre (AZW), allowing Georgian nurses to pursue proficiency in accordance with European standards and gain international experience in the Clinics of Austria.

At present, TSMU is the partner of more than 120 universities and University Clinics from 40 countries worldwide; collaboration with them is regulated on the basis of bilateral agreements and / or joint international projects (ERASMUS +, MEVLANA, HORIZON 2020). Within the frames of the programs, every year more than 300 students, academic and administrative staff of TSMU participates in short- or long-term international mobility programs at undergraduate, master and doctoral levels mobility. TSMU attaches great importance to a student-centered educational system in comparison with a teacher-oriented system (not time-dependent and, a priori, based on the assumption that professor/teacher knows what to teach). Student-centered approach pays much more attention to curriculum planning and is focused on students’ needs in terms of their future social activities and professional career. Therefore, one of the mechanisms of evaluation of educational programs and, most importantly, the performance indicators, is a study of assessment of students and graduates and critical analysis of the study results.

For this purpose, the Department of Quality Assurance has worked out a number of target questionnaires and criteria, in the use and interpretation of which the students are actively involved.

All the above-mentioned determines the proper planning of the curriculum, the effectiveness of its implementation, existence of the chain of study and evaluation processes of the results using the objective, measurable criteria.

Each member of our university communities - faculty, administration, students and alumni - had, has and will have the opportunity to make own contribution in professional improvement and development of the Tbilisi State Medical University as a whole.

Once your choice falls to join Tbilisi State Medical University academic community, be sure you will be taken into care by academic staff, and the administration of TSMU as well as the cohort of graduates and the students of TSMU who are ready to help you create future and successfully realize your dream.

Location

33 Vazha Pshavela Ave, Tbilisi, Georgia

HISTORY OF TSMU

The University was solemnly opened on 8th of February, 1918 (old style 26th of January), the day of remembrance of the Georgian King David the Builder. Since that, this day remains one of the most significant events in the history of the nation. The founders of the Georgian University well understand the importance of introduction Higher Medical Education. The primary initiator of the university foundation, the reverend Professor Ivane Javakhishvili, had been speaking about the reasons of establishment of Medical Faculty “We still need to carry out research on the endemic flora and fauna in our country. Many human diseases have various characters and most are as yet unstudied. Consequently, scientific workers at our University’s Medical and Natural Sciences Faculties have a broad challenge area”.

The first Rector of University Professor Petre Melikishvili was an active supporter of medical faculty creation. On the meeting of “Georgian Physicians and Natural Sciences Society” (12th of October, 1917), he has expressed his opinion about the necessity of opening the medical and natural sciences faculty.

HOSTEL AND INDIAN FOOD AT TBILISI STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (TSMU)

Tbilisi State Medical University is the oldest government medical university of Georgia. In spite of that, they have not built a special hostel facility for the international students. Actually, all the MBBS Georgia colleges have this same problem. MOKSH has taken a major initiative with the university and started a hostel in Tbilisi city. MOKSH is investing on the required infrastructure for the students with another partner. The hostel would also be attached to the Indian mess wherein the students would be in a position to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The facilities are good enough only for 50 students, exactly the number of seats held by us at Tbilisi State Medical University Georgia!

An Indian caretaker would be available with an emergency number given to all the Indian students. This gives a huge support to the parents in India who can get the real time information on the children with safety.