Universidad Estatal de Medicina de Tbilisi - Tbilisi - Georgia

The Tbilisi State Medical University (TSMU) is the main center of higher medical education in Georgia, with an almost hundred-year history. Actually, higher medical education in Georgia is of the same age as well. It is noteworthy to emphasize that thousands of TSMU graduates continue their professional careers in many leading clinics and institutions of Georgia, Europe and the world as a whole. The core role and responsibility of TSMU in providing the country population health care activities is of great importance and respectable. While accomplishing this important mission TSMU is guided by the fundamental principles of its activities: • Academic Quality of knowledge and research; • Demo

cracy; • Electiveness and transparency of the managing bodies; • Academic freedom of both students and academic staff.