Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences

Not to be confused with Kerman University of Medical Sciences.

Kermanshah University

دانشگاه علوم پزشکی و خدمات بهداشتی درمانی کرمانشاه
Type	Public
Established	1968 (1968)
Chancellor	Mahmoud Reza Moradi, M.D.
Academic staff	521
Students	5500
Undergraduates	4504
Postgraduates	996
Location	Kermanshah , Kermanshah province , Iran 35.7483°N 51.3812°E / 35.7483; 51.3812
Campus	Urban
Colors	Turquoise and Orange
Nickname	Kums
Website	gsia.kums.ac.ir/en

Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences was inaugurated as the Nursing High School in 1968,and became the medical college in 1975. After the Islamic Revolution, it was further developed into the Medical University in 1985. The University has 521 academic staff and 5500 students studying at all levels of medical fields at its faculties, and doing their practical training and placement in Teaching Hospitals, and prepare them for the demands of today's and tomorrow's job market. The university regulates and coordinates the activities of medical education, training and research in healthcare profession throughout Kermanshah Province. In addition to teaching and treatment, it has also been dealing with such areas as research and innovations in order to improve allied health sciences. Among the countless research activities, the university mainly focuses on higher research programs in Basic Medical Sciences, Allied Health Sciences and Nursing. The university also serves the recent scientific and technological leap in the country and promotes the public health by means of scientific strategies and measures. This university has eight Vice-Chancellors, eight faculties, and seventeen Hospitals. eight of these Hospitals are in Kermanshah city, and the others are located in its towns as follows: Islam Abad, Paveh, Javanroud, Sarpole’ Zohab, Sonqor, Sahneh, Qasre-Shirin, Kangavar, Gilan Qarb and Harsin. Based on the vote of 222nd meeting of the Development Council of Universities of Medical Sciences on March 18, 2013, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences was promoted to type I university. It was also recognized as the national pole of community-oriented medicine at the same year. Moreover, the educational management of KUMS ranked first in the latest educational ranking of universities (RAD plan). Furthermore, in the overall educational ranking of universities in 2011, KUMS ranked first among the universities in the west of Iran. Accordingly, it ranked sixth in the domain of qualitative development of education among universities in Iran. KUMS academic staff are engaged with teaching and research to push the boundaries of human knowledge. KUMS greets people from all over the world, providing historical and general information about campus to visitors, and the public.

Collaborating schools

Collaborating schools

Country	University
Cyprus	Eastern Mediterranean University
Ukraine	Kharkiv National Medical University(KNMU)
Iraq	University of Sulaymanyah
France	Institut Francais de research et Denseignement Superieur International
Iraq	Hawler Medical University
Netherlands	Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam
Iraq	University of Garmian
Russia	Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry
Netherlands	Maastricht University
Iraq	University of Human Development Sulaymanyah

Adjunct vs. Visiting Professors

The Adjunct and Visiting Professors below collaborate with KUMS:

Adjunct Professors	Visiting Professors
Khosrow Adeli,PhD/University of Toronto	Juan Francisco Asenjo,MD/McGill University
Mohammad Abdoli-Ermaki,PhD/Ryerson University	Serge Brand,PhD/Basel University
Farahnak Assadi,MD/Chicago University	Walter Klimscha,MD/Vienna University
Ali Asgari,PhD/Toronto University	Christopher Franco,PhD/Flinders University
Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi,PhD/UCLA University	Michael Nelson,PhD/Kings College London
Bijan Bijan,MD/University of California
Elaheh Mahdavian,PhD/Louisiana State University Shreveport
Mohammad Amin Mohammadifar,PhD/Thecnical University of Denmark
Ramin Pakbaz,MD/Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla(CA)
Amir Sharafkhaneh,MD,PhD/Baylor College of Medicine
Ziaeddin Shariat-Madar,PhD/University of Messissippi
Hojatollah Vali,PhD/McGill University

Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences World Ranking

According to the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities that released by Shanghai Ranking of Academic Subject 2019, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences ranks between 201 and 300 among the top universities in the world based on Clinical Medicine.

Faculties

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1975. Currently, 192 medical students are studying at this faculty, and over 3878 medical students have graduated so far. The first specialist residency recruitment was started by admitting residents of Anesthesiology in 1991. Nowadays, KUMS is pledged to admit a total number of 141 medical specialties in all medical specialty fields per year. The university is well known for its ability to develop clinical skills in medical students through one of the nation's most robust standardized patient programs and partnerships with lading hospital systems.

Educational Status

Currently, there are eleven basic sciences department, eight departments in master programs, two departments in PhD programs, and twenty two clinical departments at the faculty of medicine. The faculty of medicine has a mission to educate science-based, skilled, and compassionate clinicians prepared to meet the challenges of practicing medicine in the 21st century and conduct cutting-edge biomedical research that enhances people life and advanced the fundamental understanding of medical sciences.

Table 1: Academic Staff of the Faculty of Medicine According to Academic Level and Ranking
Academic Staff	Number
Basic Sciences	87
Clinical	206
Professor	17
Associate Professor	79
Assistant Professor	193
Instructor	3
Total	293

Departments

There are over 35 clinical and basic sciences departments and programs in the faculty of medicine, which are summarized in Table 2.

Table 2. The Departments in the Faculty of Medicine
Anatomy	Medical Physics
Anesthesiology	Microbiology
Clinical Biochemistry	Mycology & Parasitology
Biomedical Engineering	Neurology
Cardiology	Neurosurgery
Clinical Psychology	Obstetrics & Gynecology
Dermatology	Ophthalmology
Emergency Medicine	Orthopedics
English Language	Pathology
E.N.T	Pediatrics
General Surgery	Psychiatry
Health & Social Medicine	Physiology - Pharmacology
Immunology	Radiology
Infectious Disease	Radiotherapy & Oncology
Internal Medicine	Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation
Islamic Education	Alternative & Complementary Medicine
Medical Biotechnology	Urology

Faculty of Dentistry

Faculty of Dentistry as a professional educational institution offers a full range of academic courses, including comprehensive undergraduate and postgraduate programs in collaboration with highly experienced academic staff along with proper facilities and the most advanced teaching methods.

Background

Established in 2008, the faculty started admitting students in general dentistry in 2009. Also, students in Oral Health have been accepted at KUMS since 2015. In terms of infrastructure, the newly established faculty of Dentistry in KUMS campus, with an area over 11500 square meters. is the largest faculty in west part of Iran which will be opened at December 2019.

Educational Status

The faculty of Dentistry has 46 academic staff, working in 10 departments in which they have trained 417 students including 6 International residency students. Table 4 summarizes the academic staff of faculty based on their specialty.

Table 1. Academic Staff of the Faculty of Dentistry by Specialty
Specialty	Number
Endodontics	4
Orthodontics	6
Oral and maxillofacial medicine	5
Periodontics	6
Dental prostheses	4
Restorative dentistry	4
Oral and maxillofacial surgery	5
Oral and maxillafacial radiology	5
Pediatric dentistry	5
Research Center of Dentistry	2
Total	46

External links

• Official website