640 Int’l MBBS Students Studying at Tehran University of Medical Sciences
“Nearly 95% of international general medicine students changed their path from MD to MBBS through a process, and the first MBBS students of the university graduated three years ago,” Aminian said.
Noting that the main goal of attracting undergraduate students is to develop medical education and international cooperation, he said that the Persian language is taught to them from the moment they arrive.
Aminian noted that nearly 640 international MBBS students have been accepted in the university, adding, “These students, 56 percent of whom are girls, are from 28 countries around the world and 253 of them have graduated so far.
Aminian also said that students from India, Pakistan, and Iraq have been the main applicants for the MBBS course at Tehran University of Medical Sciences in recent years.
Reports said in 2022 that 43 faculty members and professors of the University of Tehran are among the top 1 percent of the most-cited scientists in the world.
Ali Fahim, Mohammad Reza Ganjali, Ali Asqar Heidari, Morteza Aqbashlou, Reza Tavakoli Moqadam, Mehdi Mehrpouya, Ali Bakhsh Kasaeeyan, Alireza Badiyee, Parviz Nowrouzi, Ali Akbar Sabouri, Abbas Zareyee Hanzaki, Hamed Mirzadeh (Soltanpour), Zahra Imam Jom’eh, Fat'holla Pourfayyaz, Shahin Rafiyee, Ali Akbar Moussavi Movahedi, Seyed Ali Torabi, Attaollah Taleyeezadeh, Farrokh Aminifar, Akram Hosseinian Serajelou, Pouria Ahmadi, Faramarz Khodayian Chegeni, Mohammad Ali Azadeh (Ali Azadeh), Seyed Mohammad Ali Ebrahimzadeh Moussavi, Fariborz Joulayee, Mohammad Ali Amouzegar, Mostafa Baqani, Mohammad Alhouyee Nazari, Seyed Hadi Razavi, Amin Hadi, Alireza Torabi, Mehdi Ashjayee, Mohammad Ali Akhavan Behabadi, Yunus Nourollahi, Jafar Razmi, Farshad Kosari, Hossein Yousefi, Milad Sadeqzadeh, Majid Sanayepasand, Hassan Qassemi, Alireza Keyhani, Maryam Salami and Mahmoud Omid are among the professors and faculty members of University of Tehran who stand beside the top 1% of the world's most cited researchers.
Among these 43 faculty members of University of Tehran, 54% have worked on engineering issues, nearly 20% have made research on multidisciplinary subjects, 12% on agricultural sciences, 7% on chemistry and the rest on biology, biochemistry, materials science and microbiology.
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