Faculty of Residency and Fellowship Training

The residency is a type of post university preparation of doctor specialists in different branches of medicine. The main task is the theoretical and practical formation according to curricula, aimed to improve the professional level for an activity by himself as doctor specialist.

The fellowship training is a type of post university preparation of the doctor specialists of narrow profile for the activity by himself in the public medical sanitary institutions with a job experience of over 3 years. The duration of education in the fellowship training is of 2 years.

In 1991, as a result of insistent proofs of some heads of departments of the university and with the backing of the Health Ministry, there were matriculated the first 60 residents among the best graduates of the University at 3 specialties (general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, trauma and orthopedics).

At present, the post university education is attended by about 1600 persons at 37 specialties via residency and at 40 specialties via fellowship training.

At the beginning of the residency, the duration of the education was of 2-3 years, depending on specialty. Since 2001, it was possible to increase the duration of the studies in residency until 4 years for the specialties of surgery profile and up to 5 years-for neurosurgeons. At the therapeutically profile, the duration of education is of 3 years and at preventive medicine and pharmaceutics- of 2 years.

The Faculty of residency and Fellowship Training, that was founded via the order of the rector of the SMPhU „Nicolae Testemitanu" dated 01.11.2000, is aimed to improve the post university education via residency Fellowship Training. Since the set up of the faculty, it is headed by the dean Valeriu Revenco, university professor, PhD etc.

If we take into consideration the experience of many countries as well as ours we can conclude that the residency is a superior type in the post university education. Among the post soviet countries, Moldova was the first that succeeded to pass such a modality of education, considered as a great performance in the post university medical training.

Over the activity since 1991, thousands of persons became graduates of the Faculty of residency and Fellowship Training at different surgery and internship specialties, covering all range of contemporary medical direction in the fields of surgery, internal medicine, dentistry, pharmacy etc.

At present, within the faculty at those 15 departments and 2 courses, there activate 161 didactic staff. Out of them, 15 are university professors, 82 - PhD lecturers and 64 assistants. The clinic basis of the faculty of residency and Fellowship Training is dislocated in all public republican and municipal medical sanitary institutions from Chisinau and from the towns Balti, Orhei, Cahul.

The education via residency is done according to educational plans, programs and standards at specialties approved by the Health Ministry of the Republic of Moldova.

After passing the exam of License of residency, the graduates of the residency are issue the Diploma of License according to the model approved, wherein there is shown the degree of qualification as doctor specialist in upper mentioned field