Andijan State Medical Institute

Andijan State Medical Institute (ASMI) is an institute and research center in Uzbekistan, founded in 1955.

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Overview
The institute trains medical staff in areas of Therapeutic, Pediatric, Dentistry, Professional Education, Preventive Medicine, Pharmacy, High Nursing Affair and Physicians’ Advanced Training. At present 3,110 students have been studying at the institute. The institute has trained more than 13,000 physicians (including 800 clinical interns, 1,116 masters, 200 postgraduates and 20 doctoral students). 870 staff work at the institute at present, including 525 professorial-teaching staff in 55 departments.

There are four faculties at the Andijon State Medical Institute: the therapeutic Faculty, the Pediatric Faculty, the dentistry and the Raising Qualifications of Physicians Faculty. All are related to the medical sciences and have their own departments.

Curative Works Faculty
The Curative Works Faculty is the oldest operating faculty at the Institute. It was opened in October 1955, the year of ASMI's founding. During its first years of action, there were 10 departments and about 120 students at the faculty. In 1957, interest in the faculty grew rapidly among applicants. Under docent M.G Mirzakarim (dean from 1957 to 1970), the faculty reached its prominence, and it had one of the biggest base of textbooks in Uzbekistan.

From 2013, the dean of the Curative Works Faculty has been Adham Anvarovich Gofurov, a docent and doctor of medical sciences. Students study in the branches: curative works, medical pedagogics and higher education nursing. Enrollment is approximately 1740 students. There are 14 departments at the Curative Works Faculty, which are mainly located inside the ASMI campus and clinic. These departments are:
 * Traumatology, orthopedics, neurosurgery and injuries medicine
 * Hospital therapy, endocrinology and hematology
 * Hospital surgery and stomatology
 * Languages, pedagogics and psychology
 * Military training
 * Physical education and curative physical education
 * Normal physiology, bioorganic chemistry, biochemistry
 * Anatomy
 * Inner illnesses
 * Surgery
 * First training of general physicians
 * Second training of general physicians
 * 6–7 courses genecology
 * 6–7 course surgery, urology and first aid

Pediatric Faculty
The Pediatric Faculty was opened at ASMI in 1977, and focuses on training pediatric specialists. (There was an earlier Pediatric Faculty at Central Asian Medical Pediatric Institute in Tashkent, operating from 1966 to 1972.) Currently there are 14 departments at the faculty which are mainly located inside the campus and its clinics; other departments are located in hospitals of the Andijan region. The faculty consists of 253 professors and teachers, in the following fourteen departments:
 * Social-humanitarian subjects
 * Medical biology, histology, medical and biological physics, informatics, medical technology and new techniques
 * Pediatric surgery
 * Illnesses and epidemiology
 * Clinic radiology, oncology
 * Pharmacology and clinic pharmacology
 * Psychiatry, and clinical psychology, neurology and kid's neurology
 * Ophthalmology
 * Kids illnesses, neonatology and urgent pediatrics
 * Pediatrics
 * Hospital and clinic pediatrics
 * Microbiology, immunology
 * General and social hygiene, control of the medical system
 * Anatomy

Raising Qualifications of Physicians Faculty
This faculty mainly focuses on giving practical knowledge to doctors of the Fergana, Andijan and Namangan regions, updating their skills with new techniques and practices, developing specializations, and working toward a second degree. It was established on 6 July 1984 by edict number 864 of Uzbekistan's Public Health Ministry. The Faculty cooperates with "Tashkent Institution of Raising doctor's qualification" and with the Tashkent Medical Academy. Studies are held according to a plan from the Public Health Ministry. There are seven departments which give the following specific lessons (with training hours per academic year):
 * Therapy – 6580 hours per year
 * Pediatrics – 5938 hours per year
 * Neonatology – 3770 hours per year
 * Surgery – 3965 hours per year
 * Genecology – 3570 hours per year
 * Ophthalmology – 3770 hours per year
 * First aid – 2530 hours per year

Only doctors who have worked in their related field for at least three years can apply to the Faculty, where they can continue their studies and scientific researches.

Dormitory
From the first years of ASMI's establishment, there was a dormitory for the students located in a student-town. Between 1960 and 1961, two 400-student dormitories were built. In 1964, a new dormitory was built, able to hold about 400 more people. After this occasion, additional construction began; in 1974, the Institute had built a dormitory for 630 students. In 1986, students town gained a new building for 230 students. In 2000, ASMI opened new building for the Social-Humanitarian Sciences department which was able to house 400 students. After creation of 2 academic lyceums under the Institute, the students-town gained a new building for 200 students. Each dormitory at the students-town has its own kitchen, rest rooms, study and computer rooms.

In 2010, Andijan city hosted the "Universiade – 2010" competitions which are held in Uzbekistan between the universities and institutions. Because of this, ASMI renovated the buildings in students-town, adding sports halls, small buildings, and living rooms. These complexes where then made available to the students.

Rectorate
The rectorate of Andijan State Medical Institute consists of five representatives who share leading positions at the ASMI. Currently, the rector and head of the ASMI is Madazimov Madamin Muminovich, who is a doctor of medical sciences and professor. The vice-rectors on educational process is Abdulajanov B.R, who is a professor and doctor of medical sciences. The second Vice-rector of the ASMI on scientific researches of the Institute is Salakhindinov Kamoldin Zuhritdinovich who is a professor and doctor of medical sciences. Last vice-rector of the Institute is Mamajonov Zafar Abdujalilovich.

Location
Andijan State Medical Institute is located in Uzbekistan, Andijan region, Andijan city, Yu.Atabekova street, house 1.

Links

 * Information about the Institute in Uzbek oliygoh.uz checked 28 March 2016
 * Information about the institute in Uzbek checked 28 March 2016
 * Second web-site of the Institute checked 28 March 2016
 * Official article about the Institute in English checked 28 March 2016