Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IUMS)

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), was first established in 1946, as the Isfahan Higher School of Health Education. Presently, this university also attends to medical and health issues in the metropolis of Isfahan. According to the latest statistics, about four million and 700 thousand people benefit from the services of this university and the units affiliated with it.

History

Isfahan Higher School of Health Education was established in a small house in Ahmadabad neighborhood of Isfahan. After some time, the main center of this school was moved to the famous Sa’di High School in order to use the facilities and classes of that high school for educating the admitted students. Four years later, i.e., in 1950, a "Medical College" started working next to the Isfahan Higher School of Health Education and succeeded in obtaining the license to conduct a six-year course in MBBS. After some time, the school was merged into the college and its faculty members engaged in teaching the students admitted to the college.

Five years later, i.e. in 1955, this college was permitted to establish the school of pharmacy, which offered courses at bachelor level, but two years later, this school continued its activities as a separate faculty. Three years later, these two colleges, together with the newly established Faculty of Literature, formed "Isfahan University". With the addition of three new academic courses of pharmaceutical sciences, educational sciences, and nursing and the establishment of a special university clinic next to Sorayya and Khurshid Medical Centers in the year 1968, the path for the establishment of the university was rapidly paved. In the following years, the courses of microbiology, parasitology, and medical diagnosis and the faculty of dentistry were added to the structure of the university, and finally in 1985, with the separation of medical science units from universities, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences came into being and began its activities independently.

Education and Research in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

More than 1,000 faculty members of the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences train more than 10,000 students in the following 10 schools:

1. School of Medicine
2. School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine
3. School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
4. School of Nursing and Midwifery
5. School of Health
6. School of Nutrition and Food Sciences
7. School of Dentistry
8. School of Paramedical Sciences
9. School of Management and Medical Informatics
10. School of Rehabilitation Sciences

In addition to this, the Institute of Health Education of Khomeinishahr city is affiliated with this university. 39 educational and medical centers and hospitals and 46 research centers are also working under the supervision of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The three research institutes of this university include "Dental Sciences", "Primary Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases", and "Cardiology", which conduct research in their specialized fields. The university publishes 18 scientific journals (seven in Farsi and 11 in English) in which the outcome of research conducted by the researchers of the university and that of the research of other researchers in the fields of medicine and health are published.

International Position and Activities of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

According to the report published by Times Institute in 2023, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences has been ranked second among Iranian universities of medical sciences which is one-step higher than the position of this university in the year 2022. This university also managed to win the title of the best university in Iran in the Shanghai ranking system in 2023, in the field of nursing, with a rank of 201 to 300. In the 2021 ISC ranking system, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences was one of the top universities in Iran with a rank of 501 to 600.

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences has signed memorandums of understanding with some educational and research centers in Germany, Japan, South Korea for conducting joint research projects. It also periodically holds joint meetings and seminars with the presence of foreign professors and researchers.

In 2023, the number of students studying in this university stood at 400. Based on the available vacancies and facilities, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences publishes a call for admitting a limited number of non-Iranian applicants every year.