University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș

University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tîrgu Mureș

Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie (Romanian) Orvosi és Gyógyszerészeti Egyetem (Hungarian)
Latin: Universitas Medicinae et Pharmaciae Marisiensis
Former names	Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tîrgu Mureș
Established	1945, 1948
Rector	Prof. Dr. Leonard Azamfirei
Administrative staff	over 400
Students	over 4,000
Location	Târgu Mureș, Romania
Campus	Urban
Nickname	UMF Tîrgu Mureș MOGYE
Website	www.umftgm.ro

The University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tîrgu Mureș (Romanian: Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie din Tîrgu Mureș, or UMF Tîrgu Mureș; Hungarian: Orvosi és Gyógyszerészeti Egyetem, or MOGyE) is a public university in Târgu Mureș, Romania, founded in 1945. The university is one of the 6 traditional medical schools in Romania beside Cluj, Bucharest, Timișoara, Iași and Craiova, all being founded before the 1989 Romanian revolution.

Medical education in Târgu Mureș (also spelled as Tîrgu Mureș) began in 1945 as a branch of the Faculty of Medicine of the Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca. After the foundation of this university, the Faculties of Philology, Philosophy, Law, Economics and Natural Sciences started their activity in Cluj Napoca, and the Faculty of Medicine was moved to Târgu Mureș, where it operated between 1945 and 1948.

In 1948, after the Education Reform, the Medical and Pharmaceutical Institute was founded, an independent institute with the following faculties: Medicine, Paediatrics, Hygiene, Dentistry and Pharmacy. Between 1951 and 1958 it comprised three faculties: General Medicine, Paediatrics and Pharmacy. In 1958-1959 the Faculty of Paediatrics was transformed into a department; and from 1960-l961 the department of Dentistry started operating again, becoming a faculty in the academic year 1965-1966.

The Faculty of Pharmacy ceased its activity between 1986 and 1990. In 1991, the Institute was given the name of University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș. By Decree 800/ 1965 and by the Order of the Minister of Education, the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș gained the right to award doctoral degrees in medicine (7 professors were appointed as doctoral supervisors).

The University carries on its activity as a university with a structure and specialities that are accredited by the law. The University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș functions as a public institution with legal status, being the only university in the field of healthcare where teaching is in Romanian, Hungarian, and recently, in English. Graduates of study programmes can benefit from different levels of academic degrees: bachelor, master’s, doctoral. Their area of specialisation according to the division of academic knowledge and professional division of labour is also different.

The University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș, a famous academic institution, is accessible to all Romanian and foreign citizens without any discrimination and as a centre of excellence which provides knowledge and competence in various forms: initial and continuous training of specialists, research, expertise and consultancy in its field of competence. In the development of the university, the educational and research components have always been prevalent in training physicians, dentists, pharmacists, midwives, and nurses. From the methodological and practical aspect of healthcare, the university represents the pivot in the district. As a renowned university, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș is actively involved in joint competition of education and research internationalisation.