About Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) is Iran's largest and most
prestigious medical university. Dr. Lankarani, Iran's Minister of Health, Treatment, and
Medical Education described TUMS as a pioneer in research throughout the country, with a
considerable lead over peer universities, in September 2008. It was formed as part of Dar
ol-Fonoon in 1851 and was eventually merged into the University of Tehran in 1934. It is in
Tehran, near the main University of Tehran campus. In 1986, legislative law removed it from
the University of Tehran, and it became part of the new Ministry of Health, Treatment, and
Medical Education. TUMS is recognized as one of Iran's top research institutions, with a
government research budget of more than 300 billion Rials. Over 13,000 students (40 percent
of them are women) are trained in 290 undergraduate, graduate, and non-degree (short course)
programs at the institution. The university contains 11 schools, 16 teaching hospitals, and
over 44 libraries, and produces 58 periodicals, some of which are in conjunction with
academic groups. The institution also runs the National Museum of Medical Sciences History.
Accreditation Service for International Colleges and Universities has granted TUMS Premier
Status (ASIC UK). It also has the largest medical, dental, pharmacy, rehabilitation, allied
medical sciences, public health, advanced medical technologies, nutritional sciences and
dietetics, nursing and midwifery, and virtual school in Iran. This university oversees over
a hundred specialized research centers, including Science and Technology in Medicine,
Rheumatology, Audiology, Digestive Disease, Skin Diseases, and Leprosy, Trauma, Hematology
and Oncology, Cardiovascular Diseases, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Reproductive Health,
Urology, Immunology, and Asthma and Allergy.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS)
MBBS
