Rector’s Message

 The State University of Medicine and Pharmaceutics „Nicolae Testemitanu" in the Republic of Moldova is a high education institution, accredited at national level, that offers best conditions of high and post graduate education via residency of the medical and pharmaceutical personnel in conformity with the requirements of the European education and world standards, later on assuring it via clinical secondary doctorate, post-doctorate and continuous professional training over their entire activity. The didactic process is developed in an indispensable connection with the scientific research, offering quality medical assistance to the population, and promoting the achievements of medicine and pharmacy.

The didactic-scientific potential of the SMPhU is unique due to a high professionalism that combines knowledge of foreign languages and information technologies.

The education strategy of the University originates from beautiful traditions of the medical schools of the last century and strives continuously to considerable changes in the way of developing the high medical education. The ongoing curriculum reform is related to the considerable renovation of the educational curriculums, capitalization of new educational offers, use of European system of transferable academic grading scale, implementation of information and communication technologies, modern advanced types and methods for developing the process of teaching-learning-assessment.

Students and medical resident students benefit from the possibility to participate in the activity of scientific research. Simultaneously, they are offered a deep knowledge course of international foreign languages, training of specialization and documentation abroad, driving courses, participation in different sport, cultural-artistic activities etc. All these activities are backed up by a well developed technical and material basis, of a rich fund of medical scientific literature and other modern sources of information, normal living and rest conditions for students, residency owners and teachers.

„... To dedicate my knowledge and forces to the protection and consolidation of human health, through prevention and treatment of diseases, to work with abnegation in the service of the community and interest of the nation..." - are words from the Oath of the Doctor, pronounced annually by over 600 local graduates and from other 25 world countries.

Our University is well known abroad for its values it produced in the field of education, medical assistance to the population and spiritual culture. This University is always devoted to the traditions of the forerunners and at the same time anchored in the realities of the epoch we live in, being involved in the exchange of values with over 30 famous universities and medical centers from Romania, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Israel, a fact that assures the mobility and offers the chance of plenary assertion within the didactic-teaching frame and studious youth.

I invite you with great pleasure to make a short virtual trip through the State University of Medicine and Pharmaceutics „Nicolae Testemitanu".

 
Rector ION ABABII,
University Professor,
Academician of Moldova
Academy of Science