| Established: | 1945 | ||
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| Type: | Public | ||
| City: | Târgu Mureș | Country: | Romania |
| Website: | http://www.umftgm.ro | ||
| date=October 2011 | |||
The University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș or UMF Targu-Mureș(Hungarian: Marosvásárhelyi Orvosi és Gyógyszerészeti Egyetem) is a public university in Târgu Mureș, Romania, founded in 1948 as Institutul Medico-Farmaceutic. UMF Targu-Mureş is one of the 6 traditional medical schools in Romania beside UMF Cluj, UMF Bucharest, UMF Timişoara, UMF Iași and UMF Craiova, all being founded before the 1989 Romanian revolution.
The actual complex of the University was constructed in the period between 1908-1909 when it was a military school. After World War II a branch of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Bolyai University was transferred here from Cluj-Napoca. Since 1962 the University of Medicine and Pharmacy has expanded as the number of students has doubled. Many of the doctors who graduated here have become known in the country and abroad.
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Entrance into the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Targu-Mureş is established by a highly competitive entrance Exam, of multiple choice nature. Topics tested are of a high level and in the case of General Medicine - anatomy, biology and chemistry are the main topics offered.
Romania has a long standing tradition in the medical field. The Romanian health care system, has been in existence since 1700.
George Emil Palade, the Nobel Prize winner of 1974 in Physiology or Medicine, was born in Iași, in North-Eastern Romania, while Nicolae Paulescu, the discoverer of insulin, was born in Bucharest, Romania.
It is also notable that during the 1828 plague in Bucharest, 21 out of the 26 doctors, lost their lives whilst administering treatment for the disease.