The biggest and most complex training centre for medical specialists in Bulgaria
SHORT DESCRIPTION
The Medical University of Plovdiv was established as a medical faculty of Plovdiv University in 1945. In 1950 the faculty became the independent Medical Academy - Plovdiv. The Higher Medical Institute was renamed to the Medical University of Plovdiv in 2002.
It includes the Faculties of Medicine, Dental medicine, Pharmacy, Public Health, a Department of Languages and Specialized training, a medical college and a hospital with 2000 beds. Facilities include laboratories, clinics and units for diagnostics and treatment, research activities and training of medical and dental students.
The Central University Library offers the students 170,000 volumes in many languages as well as an internet hall and a local net system (with Medline and Micromedex available). The university issues a journal called Folia Medica, which is exchanged with more than 326 specialists from over 54 countries included in Medline.
The Medical Simulation Training Centre (MTSC) of MU – Plovdiv is the biggest and most complex training centre for medical specialists in Bulgaria. Its mission is to provide the best possible education for students, as well as for physicians from different specialties – internal diseases, pulmonology, cardiology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, anesthesiology, toxicology, surgery, orthopaedy, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics and a lot more.
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