Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
  • دانشگاه علوم پزشکی و خدمات بهداشتی درمانی اصفهان
Motto« یا مَنْ اسْمُهُ دَواءٌ وَ ذِکْرُهُ شِفاءٌ » « نامش دارو و یادش درمان »
Motto in English
O'Thou Whose Name is panacea, whose remembrance is heal-all.
TypePublic
Established1024–1025
PresidentShahin Shirani
Academic staff
939 [1]
Students10000
Location
Isfahan
,
Iran
CampusUrban
Colours  Persian green
Websitewww.mui.ac.ir

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences also known as Medical University of Isfahan (MUI) (Persian: دانشگاه علوم پزشکی و خدمات بهداشتی درمانی اصفهان, Danushgah-e 'lum-e Pezeshki-ye vâ Xedâmat-e Behedashti-ye Dârmati-ye Esfehan) is a university specializing in basic medical sciences, clinical science, and health services, located in Isfahan, Iran.

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences is one of the Iranian medical schools. Admission to the university is limited to students with top scores on the national entrance examination, administered yearly by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran).

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences was founded by Great Avicenna(Ibn_sina), under the patronage of the Kakouid ruler Alla-al-Dowleh in 1024/1025. It soon became one of the leading educational centers of the historic Muslim world.

Coin of Ala al-Dawla Muhammad (r. 1008–1041), the Kakuyid ruler of Isfahan

Avicenna went to Isfahan in c. 1024, where he was well received by Ala al-Dawla. In the words of Juzjani, the Kakuyid ruler gave Avicenna "the respect and esteem which someone like him deserved."[2] Adamson also says that Avicenna's service under Ala al-Dawla "proved to be the most stable period of his life."[3] Avicenna served as the advisor, if not vizier of Ala al-Dawla, accompanying him in many of his military expeditions and travels.[2][3] Avicenna dedicated two Persian works to him, a philosophical treatise named Danish-nama-yi Ala'i ("Book of Science for Ala"), and a medical treatise about the pulse.[4]

The Mausoleum of Avicenna, Hamadan, Iran

During the brief occupation of Isfahan by the Ghaznavids in January 1030, Avicenna and Ala al-Dawla relocated to the southwestern Iranian region of Khuzistan, where they stayed until the death of the Ghaznavid ruler Mahmud (r. 998–1030), which occurred two months later. It was seemingly when Avicenna returned to Isfahan that he started writing his Pointers and Reminders.[5] In 1037, while Avicenna was accompanying Ala al-Dawla to a battle near Isfahan, he was hit by a severe colic, which he had been constantly suffering from throughout his life. He died shortly afterwards in Hamadan, where he was buried.[6]

History

The Avicenna school

During the reign of Buyids, particularly under the supervision of their grand minister, Sahib Ibn Abbad, a big library was built in Isfahan, and the city turned into a center of education. This prospering of science and education was contemporaneous with a time when the great Persian philosopher and physician, Avicenna, was conducting his productive life of reading and writing about the unknown mysteries of the world. Accused of treachery, Avicenna escaped the court of now dead Shams al-Dowla and, with the help of his new patron Ala al-Dowla, took refuge in Isfahan. Serving as the minister of Ala al-Dowla, Avicenna also taught in a school located in the neighborhood, A few steps down the Shafiʿiyeh Madrassah, you can find the remains of this school Known as the Madras Ibn Sina (Avicenna school), what is left of the school includes a small brick square shaped structure topped with a simple dome.The historical monument, known as "Madras of Ibn-e-Sina" is located to the north of Isfahan city centre. This ancient 11th century dome, traditionally marks the spot where the great Ibn-e-Sina established his school of medicine. Ibn-e-Sina, known universally by his Latinized name of Avicenna, was a renowned Persian polymath who is regarded as the father of modern medicine and one of the most influential figures in the history of medical sciences throughout the globe. This small but valuable building with its brick dome has been the teaching place of Ibn-e-Sina during his residence in Isfahan. It is registered in the list of national monuments of Iran on March 15, 2005. "'Bahmanyar ibn al-Marzban, better simply known as Bahmanyar (Persian: بهمنیار; died 1066) was an Iranian scholar,[7][8] who is mainly known as one of the most prominent pupils of Avicenna (d. 1037) was possibly part of the Buyid court in Ray through family ties with the Bavandid princess Sayyida Shirin, her husband Fakhr al-Dawla (r. 984–997) and son Majd al-Dawla (r. 997–1029), both Buyid rulers of Ray.[7] eventually started to interact with Avicenna, which would later result in the latter's creation of the al-Mubāḥathāt ("The Discussions"), which were mainly answers to questions made by Bahmanyar.[7] The work was compiled sometime between 1024–1037, during Avicenna's stay in Isfahan, the capital of the Kakuyid ruler Muhammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyar (r. 1008–1041).[7][2] In the work, Bahmanyar is referred to as al-Shaykh al-fāḍil ("the aristocratic gentleman").[7][9]

Textbook: Canons of medicine

The medical traditions of Galen and thereby Hippocrates, had dominated Islamic medicine from its beginnings. Avicenna sought to fit these traditions into Aristotle's natural philosophy. He began writing the Canon in Gorganj, continued in Rey & Hamadan and completed it in Isfahan in 1025.

Canons of medicine book from Avicenna, Latin translation located at UT Health of San Antonio

Avicenna authored a five-volume medical encyclopedia: The Canon of Medicine (Al-Qanun fi't-Tibb). It was used as the standard medical textbook in the Isfahan school of medicine and Islamic world and Europe up to the 18th century.[10][11] The Canon still plays an important role in Unani medicine.[12] Avicenna considered whether events like rare diseases or disorders have natural causes.[13] He used the example of polydactyly to explain his perception that causal reasons exist for all medical events. This view of medical phenomena anticipated developments in the Enlightenment by seven centuries.[14]

Avicenna wrote on Earth sciences such as geology in The Book of Healing.[15] While discussing the formation of mountains, he explained:

Either they are the effects of upheavals of the crust of the earth, such as might occur during a violent earthquake, or they are the effect of water, which, cutting itself a new route, has denuded the valleys, the strata being of different kinds, some soft, some hard ... It would require a long period of time for all such changes to be accomplished, during which the mountains themselves might be somewhat diminished in size.[15]

Modern Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), was established in 1946, as the Isfahan Higher School of Health Education. In 1950, the Isfahan Faculty of Medicine was inaugurated and students were admitted for the M.D. degrees after a 6-year medical training course.. Today, the university campus is located on Hezarjarib Street in southern Isfahan. Isfahan University of Medical Sciences provides undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs in 10 faculties and 75 main departments. The student body consists of about 10,000 students from all 31 provinces of Iran and some foreign countries. Funding for Isfahan University of Medical Sciences is provided by the government (via the ministry of health and medical education) and through some private investments.

Modern History

The idea to establish the modern university came from doctors at the Amin Hospital in 1939. Finally, the hospital's board of directors approved a plan to establish the Isfahan Higher Institute of Health in 1946. Isfahan University of Medical Sciences was established as a modern institution in 1946 under the name "The Higher Institute of Health" and later was elevated to the "School of Medicine".

In September of the same year, an ad signed by lecturer Dr. Jelveh, then caretaker of Isfahan Province Health and Medical Treatment Department, was published in local newspapers calling on prospective students to enroll in the new institute.

The first classes were held at the old Sa'di High School (now the Soureh Institute). Many more students enrolled in subsequent years. Therefore, the institute had to find a larger campus to accommodate the growing number of new students. As a result, the Isfahan University was founded to accommodate these students and establish new faculties.

On October 29, 1950, the first series of classes were held at the new campus, named the University of Isfahan. The newly established school of Medicine at Sa'di School and Literature College on Shahzadeh Ebrahim Street joined the University of Isfahan and relocated themselves to the main campus.

The university later offered programs in human sciences, engineering and medical sciences. Related programs of medical sciences, although they were the parent programs of Isfahan University, were then separated from the University of Isfahan and became an independent university named Isfahan University of Medical Sciences(IUMS) in 1985.

With 12 hospitals and 75 departments, the university is currently a regional health care provider and the main medical center in Isfahan Province and central Iran.

Schools

  • School of Health
  • School of Nursing and Midwifery
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Nutrition & Food Sciences
  • School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • School of Dentistry
  • School of Rehabilitation Sciences
  • School of Advanced Technologies in Medical Sciences
  • School of Allied Medical Sciences
  • School of Management & Medical Information Sciences

Research

International cooperation with the German partners in the following fields is of special importance

  • Development of Novel Therapeutics and Diagnostics/ Theranostics
  • Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology in Medicine
  • Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy
  • Big Data to Knowledge
  • Precision Medicine
  • Medical Robotics

Several cooperation projects in recent years have been initiated with German universities. To name a few examples of successful projects:

  • Student exchange in the field of IT with the University of Passau running since 2015
  • joint international conference on climate protection with the strong involvement of professors from Germany
  • Joint research project in the field of intercultural communication in cooperation with HU Berlin (in work).

IUMS has one of the largest network of research in medical sciences. Besides the research done in different departments of its faculties, it is now handling several research centers in central Iran.

MUI Journals

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) currently publishes 14 peer reviewed journals in different fields of basic and clinical, medical and paramedical sciences. Many of these journals are indexed by international indexers.

Online management services for editorial workflow of university journals were established in 2004 and became fully operational by 2005.

Hospitals

MUI governs 17 training hospitals which provide health services for the people of Isfahan province and also neighboring provinces. Students, Externs, interns and residents are trained in these hospitals by attending faculty of MUI training hospitals.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Academic staff(2019)". Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. 2019. Archived from the original on September 1, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Gutas 1987, pp. 67–70.
  3. 1 2 Adamson 2013, p. 25.
  4. ↑ Lazard 1975, p. 630.
  5. ↑ Gutas 2014, p. 133.
  6. ↑ Adamson 2013, p. 26.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Garakani & Brown 2013.
  8. ↑ Rescher 1964, p. 157.
  9. ↑ Reisman 2009.
  10. ↑ McGinnis, Jon (2010). Avicenna. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-19-533147-9.
  11. ↑ A.C. Brown, Jonathan (2014). Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy. Oneworld Publications. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-78074-420-9.
  12. ↑ Indian Studies on Ibn Sina's Works by Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Avicenna (Scientific and Practical International Journal of Ibn Sino International Foundation, Tashkent/Uzbekistan. 1–2; 2003: 40–42
  13. ↑ Avicenna Latinus. 1992. Liber Primus Naturalium: Tractatus Primus, De Causis et Principiis Naturalium. Leiden (The Netherlands): E.J. Brill.
  14. ↑ Axel Lange and Gerd B. Müller. Polydactyly in Development, Inheritance, and Evolution. The Quarterly Review of Biology Vol. 92, No. 1, Mar. 2017, pp. 1–38. doi:10.1086/690841.
  15. 1 2 Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield (1965), The Ancestry of Science: The Discovery of Time, p. 64, University of Chicago Press (cf. The Contribution of Ibn Sina to the development of Earth sciences Archived 14 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine)

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