In 1920, the Turkestan State University was established in Tashkent, the medical faculty was part of the university. In 1931 the faculty was separated from the university under the name of the Central Asian Medical Institute and in 1935 it was renamed the Tashkent Medical Institute. The institute has four faculties: treatment-and-prophylactic, maternity and child care, sanitary-prophylactic and dental faculties. Since 1933, the Faculty of Sanitation and Prevention was renamed the Faculty of Sanitation and Hygiene. From 1992 to the present, she is a preventive medical faculty.
The medical preventive faculty of the Tashkent Medical Academy has achieved great success not only in Uzbekistan, but also in the countries of Central Asia in the development of medical sciences and personnel training. Academician Turakulov Ya.H., professors Z. Kirov, Smetanin N.N., Kovalev E.P., Gusev M.I., Izmerov N.F., Ubaidullaev A., Chikhenin P.I., academician Iskandarov T.I. and other students of this faculty.
Medical preventive faculty is one of the leading faculties in the CIS countries. Since the foundation of the faculty, more than 13,000 doctors have been trained. Over the years of independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 3,000 specialists have been trained. Currently 522 students are studying at the faculty. There are modern textbooks, teaching aids, teaching materials, teaching materials, lecture presentations and practical exercises, e-learning modules with syllabuses prepared by faculty members for the purpose of teaching students.
The faculty trains specialists – general hygienist-epidemiologist doctor.
The students of the faculty are trained in more than 50 subjects in the following four blocks: humanitarian and socio-economic sciences, mathematics and natural sciences, general sciences, special disciplines and additional sciences. The duration of study at the Faculty of Undergraduate Studies is 5 years. Students are trained in a magistracy within two years to have a narrow range of specialties.
After completion of the master’s program, the doctor hygienist-epidemiologist may have the following specialties:
- Epidemiologist;
- Bacteriologist;
- Virologist;
- Parasitologist;
- Toxicologist;
- Laboratory doctor;
- Pathologist;
- Nutritionist;
- Occupational health;
- Food Hygiene;
- Hygiene of children and adolescents;
- Communal hygiene;
- Radiation hygiene;
- Organization of a doctor of health care, etc.
Currently, the Medical and Preventive Faculty of the Tashkent Medical Academy consists of 11 departments and a school of public health where highly qualified teachers work. Medical preventive faculty of the Tashkent Medical Academy includes the following departments.
- Department of municipal and labor hygiene.
- Department of Environmental Health.
- Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology.
- Department of Pharmacology.
- Department of Hematology, Transfusiology.
- Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy
- Department of Medical Biology and Histology.
- Department of Epidemiology.
- Department of child, adolescent and food hygiene.
- Department of Medical and Biological Chemistry
- Department of Informatics and Biophysics
- School of Public Health.
The direction of the specialty includes the following subjects:
– microbiology, virisology and immunology;
– general and radiation hygiene;
– occupational diseases;
– infectious diseases;
– management and management of public health;
– communal hygiene;
– food hygiene;
– occupational health;
– hygiene of children and adolescents;
– epidemiology.
Students, graduates of the medical-preventive faculty, will take the IGA in 7 specialties out of 11. These include epidemiology, occupational health, hygiene of children and adolescents, communal hygiene, food hygiene and microbiology.
The specialties of the department are the center for the training of professors and teachers of other medical schools of the Republic of Uzbekistan in hygiene and epidemiology.
Full information about the departments of the faculty can be found on the website TMA – http://tma.uz/kafedry/
