Iran
Golestan University of Medical Sciences
Golestan University of Medical Sciences
Iran
Iran
Iran
Golestan University of Medical Sciences (GOUMS) (Persian: دانشگاه علوم پزشکی و خدمات بهداشتی درمانی گلستان) is located in Gorgan, northeastern Iran, south of the Caspian Sea. The university was first established in 1967 and consists of seven major faculties: Medicine, Dentistry, Public Health, New Technologies in Medical Sciences, Paramedicine, Nursing and Midwifery, and the Center for Medical Education Studies and Development.
The International Campus Branch of Golestan University of Medical Sciences began its educational activities in August 2013 and accepts Iranian and non-Iranian students.
This university has 7 vice-chancellors including development and management, education, student culture, treatment, health, food and medicine, and vice-chancellor for research and technology, and 55 educational groups.
This university has 22 research centers including gastroenterology and liver, infectious diseases, health management and social development, nursing research center, dentistry, clinical research development of Sayyad Shirazi Hospital, congenital anomalies, support for clinical research development of 5 Azar, stem cells, environmental health, rheumatology, cancer research, ischemic, metabolic, psychiatry, children, health of food and pharmaceutical products and supplements, cellular and molecular, neuroscience, laboratory sciences, reproductive health and counseling in midwifery, student research committee, as well as 2 research centers entitled biomedicine and clinical sciences of Jorjani.
Golestan University of Medical Sciences has 19 teaching hospitals including 5 Azar Hospital of Gorgan, Taleghani Hospital of Gorgan, Sayyad Shirazi Hospital of Gorgan, Deziani Specialized and Super-Specialized Clinic of Gorgan, Shohada Bandargaz Hospital, Imam Khomeini Hospital of Bandarturkman, Amiralmomenin Hospital of Kordkoy, Imam Reza Khan Hospital of Babbin, Alavi Maraveh Tappe Hospital, Prophet Azam Gonbad Hospital, Al Jalil Hospital of Aq Qala, Shahid Motahari Gonbad Hospital, Baqiyatullah Al Azam Hospital, Taleghani Gonbad Hospital, Shohada Gonbad Hospital, Hazrat Masoumeh Azadshahr Hospital, Fatemeh Zahra Mitodasht Hospital, Hazrat Rasool Akram Kalaleh Hospital, and affiliated Iranian and Complementary Medicine Health Centers.
The university has 14 health centers in different cities of the province including Ramian Health Center, Gomishan, Bandargaz, Gorgan, Gonbadkavous, Galikesh, Minudasht, Kalaleh, Bandarturkman, Kordkoy, Azadshahr, Ali Abad, Maraveh Tappe and Aq Qala.
Golestan Medical School was established in 1992. It currently offers educational activities in master's degree programs (microbiology, anatomical sciences, clinical biochemistry, virology, immunology) and clinical residency programs (pediatrics, gynecology, internal medicine, anesthesia and intensive care, radiology, orthopedics, psychiatry, general surgery) and doctorate programs (traditional medicine, clinical biochemistry, virology) with more than 3,500 students.
In 2009, after the second presidential visit to Golestan Province, a license to establish the faculty was issued by the Council for the Development of Medical Sciences Universities, and since October 2010, the first group of doctoral students in dentistry and bachelor's degree in prosthetics have been studying.
In 1995, the establishment of the Paramedical School and also admission to the two majors of Laboratory Sciences and Public Health (Family Health Orientation) were proposed to the Development Council. In 1995, the establishment of the two aforementioned majors was approved by the Development Council, and finally, in 1997, the establishment of the Paramedical School was definitively approved. Also, in 1999, the associate degree in environmental health was added to the school's majors, and in 2000, the disease control major was added to the school's majors. In July 2007, based on the resolution of the University Board of Trustees and also on the resolution of the Council for the Development of Medical Sciences Universities of the country on 17/8/2008, the school was upgraded to the Faculty of Paramedical and Health. Based on the vote issued in the 209th meeting of the Council for the Development of Medical Sciences Universities on 23/11/2008, the establishment of the Faculty of Health was approved, and the Faculty of Health was separated from the Faculty of Paramedical. In 2016, with the permission of the Ministry of Health, the Master's degree program in Biostatistics was launched at the Faculty of Health, in 2022, the Master's degree program in Health Services Management, and in 2024, the Master's degree program in Environmental Health Engineering was launched at the Faculty of Health. Currently, the Faculty of Health accepts students in the fields of Environmental Health Engineering (full-time undergraduate, part-time undergraduate, and master's degrees), Public Health (full-time undergraduate and part-time undergraduate), Nutritional Sciences (bachelor's degree), Biostatistics (master's degree), and Health Services Management (master's degree).
Biomedicine
Jorjani Clinical Sciences
Timeshighereducation Ranking
This university is currently ranked 801-1000 in the World University Rankings 2025, 601-800 in the Medicine & Health 2025, and 301-400 in the Times Higher Education Impact 2021.
Golestan University of Medical Sciences has 6 journals, 2 of which are indexed in Scopus.
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