Medicine is a branch of applied sciences, aiming at protecting and promoting health, and diagnosing, treating and preventing diseases. General Medicine (MD) is the basis of all specialized medical disciplines, so knowledge learned and skills developed during this period are essential not only for good practicing as GP, but also success in future higher education in various specialties and subspecialties fields. General medical graduates learn knowledge, art, and skills of diagnosing, treating and preventing illnesses through acquisition of the essential knowledge in basic medical and various branches of clinical sciences and lots of practice, using them for their patients and other clients. In addition to acquiring knowledge and skills, social and professional development through guided, purposeful and thoughtfully participation in the professional interactions during the periods of study, apprenticeship, and internship is necessary as well for being a qualified doctor.
Doctor of Dental Surgery is a six-year program including a competency-based educational plan with emphasis on prevention caring, so that graduate students, besides sufficient and comprehensive knowledge in up-to-date dentistry sciences, have the skills for visiting patients and treating different kinds of oral and dental diseases. In this program, students pass basic sciences in 2 years and then enter the clinic for 4 years in order to pass courses in all dentistry departments and learn the diagnosis of different kinds of diseases in each department. As a result of working with numerous patients, students will become highly skilled in their clinical stage.
Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) is a field in medical sciences, designed to meet the pharmacy-related medical needs of society. Students study basic sciences for 2 years and then continue specialized pharmacy courses. The school’s curriculum provides students with the opportunity to develop their skills both in theory and practice and to work in industrial and pharmaceutical companies, quality control laboratories, poison control centers, cosmetic companies, cellular pharmacology, herbal medicine, biotechnology research, and academia.
MBBS, which stands for Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery, is the first professional degree in medicine awarded upon graduation from medical school. A MBBS is considered as a basic qualification in which students go through many aspects of medicine and trained in basically all branches of medicine. After the completion of a MBBS, students become eligible to practice as a doctor or a physician.
Bachelor of Dental Surgery (B.D.S.) is one of the high educational programs, being considered as a part of medical education plan. The Objectives of this program is training and teaching dental and oral specialists, having strong scientific bases for performing future researches in dentistry field, in addition to enjoying from educational-treating efficiency.
Nursing is an independent program, and is a sub-branch of medical science. Nursing graduates as a member of health care team will be working in areas related to health care, education, research, consultancy, prevention, management, and rehabilitation. B.Sc. in nursing is the first level of nursing education which has been developed based on scientific and religious criteria. Nursing education at the B.Sc. level trains professional nurses, who, as a general staff nurse, would be able to take a responsibility of health assessment, coordination and implementation of care for individuals and families in different areas of practice.
Midwifery is a sub-branch of medical sciences, and the profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. The graduates as members of health care team are actively engaged in reproductive health, health care during pregnancy, during and after the birth, neonatal care, education, sexual and reproductive health consultancy, promotion of normal and safe delivery, diagnosis of abnormal status in mother, fetus, or newborn, emergency interventions during pregnancy or delivery, and on-time referral of unusual cases. They also strive to provide and promote health of mothers, fetus, newborns, and neonates.
In this program, students learn how to work as an operating room nurse through two unique phases of theory and clinical practice. It is suitable for who is interested in learning the circulating and scrub role of the operating room.
The program encompasses a wide variety of fields and specialties. Disease prevention, the study of zoonotic diseases, occupational hazards, air quality and living conditions are just a few of the topics that can be studied or chosen as a career path with a degree in environmental health. Environmental health professionals work on human health and the health of the environment as it affects the general well being of the population. They may be dealing with long or short term problems, and it is imperative to be able to balance both immediate and future concerns. Environmental health will also study how societies, occupations and geographical settings affect the health of populations.
