University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș

The University carries on its activity as a university with a structure and specialities that are accredited by the law. The University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș functions as a public institution with legal status, being the only university in the field of healthcare where teaching is in Romanian, Hungarian, and recently, in English. Graduates of study programmes can benefit from different levels of academic degrees: bachelor, master’s, doctoral. Their area of specialisation according to the division of academic knowledge and professional division of labour is also different. The University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș, a famous academic institution, is accessible to all Romanian and foreign citizens without any discrimination and as a centre of excellence which provides knowledge and competence in various forms: initial and continuous training of specialists, research, expertise and consultancy in its field of competence. In the development of the university, the educational and research components have always been prevalent in training physicians, dentists, pharmacists, midwives, and nurses. From the methodological and practical aspect of healthcare, the university represents the pivot in the district. As a renowned university, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș is actively involved in joint competition of education and research internationalisation. Today’s educational market conditions (increase of offers, globalisation, new forms of education, transforming universities from elitist institutions into high education institutions for everybody, etc.), turn the quality of services offered by a university into a major factor in determining its competitiveness and attractiveness. By its quality programmes and a strict observation of their achievement, by periodical assessments, it is expected that the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș is able to compete with other universities at national or international level. In line with the Bologna Declaration, we work on the elaboration of criteria and methodologies on quality assurance comparable to those of prestigious universities in Europe. This is the only way to gain recognition of the value of diplomas issued by us anywhere in Europe and in the context of European unification to face competition with other universities on the continent.