According to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan of May 26, 2016 No. PP-2534 “On admission to the higher educational institutions of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2016/2017 academic year” in 2016/17 academic year, a new course – medical biology – was opened in the Tashkent Medical Academy. The number of allocated quotas is 50
Course –5510900 – medical biology
Faculty – Medical-Prophylactic
Duration of education – 4 years
Specialty – Fundamental Medicine
Applicants take exams on the following subjects
- Chemistry
- Biology
- Mother tongue and literature
The aim is to prepare research and scientific and pedagogical personnel to tackle fundamental and practical problems, for research institutes, research centers and other medical institutions.
Graduates, whose major is medical biology can work as:
- Teacher in medical colleges, teaching following subjects: microbiology, normal anatomy, pathological anatomy, normal physiology, pathological physiology, histology
- Doctor laboratory assistant – in health care, sanatoriums, in medical and sanitary departments of some institutions and ministries, sports and recreational
- Clinical laboratory diagnostics
- Clinical and biochemical laboratory diagnostics
- Cytological diagnosis with microscopic diagnosis of biopsy
- Immunohistochemical diagnosis
- Immunobiological and immunoenzymatic diagnostics
- Serological diagnosis
- Diagnosis of PCR
- Toxicological laboratory tests
- Laboratory work in forensic medicine expertise.
- Medical statistics
Graduates of medical biology course can continue their studies applying for master’s degree for following courses:
- Biology
- Microbiology and Virology
- Biotechnology
- Biophysics
- Medical-biological equipment, systems and complexes
- Morphology
Introduced specialties:
- Molecular genetics
- Physiology (normal and pathological physiology);
- Laboratory diagnostics;
- Biomedical technologies.
- Medical Biology.
- Medical biochemistry.
- Medical biophysics.
- Medical cybernetics.
- Molecular pharmacology.
Graduates who got a master’s degree in medical biology can work in the following institutions:
- Teacher of medical and biological departments of higher medical educational institutions;
- The scientific supervisor and the head – in the medical and sanitary departments of research institutes, specialized centers, sanatoriums, some institutions and ministries, as well as in the laboratories of sports and recreational complexes.
At present 101 medical students are studying course of medical biology (1-2 courses), 25 of them are on the state grant, 76 on the contract basis.
