History of the Medical School
The Medical School of Iran University of Medical Sciences was formed from the merger of two medical schools: the Ayatollah Taleghani Medical School and the Iran Medical Center. The Iran Medical Center began accepting medical students from undergraduate level in 1975, initially operating under the name of the Imperial Medical Center. Students were admitted in four batches from 1975 to 1978. After the Islamic Revolution, the Imperial Medical Center was renamed the Iran Medical Center.The Ayatollah Taleghani Medical School operated before the Islamic Revolution as the Medical Education Complex of the Iranian Red Lion and Sun Society (Batmanghelij Medical Education Complex). Starting from 1975, it accepted 60 students through the national entrance exam and interviews from provinces that lacked medical schools at that time (Gilan, Kermanshah, and Sistan and Baluchestan). Between 1976 and 1978, students were also admitted from other provinces. After the Islamic Revolution, this complex was renamed the Medical Education Complex of the Red Crescent Society and later became the Ayatollah Taleghani Medical School.
The Ayatollah Taleghani Medical School, which was under the supervision of the Ministry of Health's educational and research complex, was reopened after the cultural revolution and this time directly admitted students in the national exam of 1982. In 1985, as the medical education program had changed after the Islamic Revolution and the pathophysiology course had been introduced into the general medical curriculum, the pathophysiology course was simultaneously held for students of the Iran Medical Center and the Ayatollah Taleghani Medical School.In 1986, when the law for the establishment of the Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education was drafted, the Ministry was formed and the educational and research complex of the Ministry of Health merged with the Iran Medical Center to form the Faculty of Medicine of Iran University of Medical Sciences.Dr. Abolfazl Khosravi Zanjani was appointed as the first head of the university, and Dr. Ali Rezaei Zadeh was appointed as the first head of the Faculty of Medicine, and the following hospitals were allocated to this universit:
Imam Ali (PBUH) Hospital - Firouzgar Hospital - Martyr Navab Safavi Psychiatric Hospital - Martyr Akbar Abadi Maternity Hospital - Firouz Abadi Hospital - Martyrs of July 7 Hospital - Martyr Rahmanian Hospital - Shafa Yahyayan Hospital - Martyr Mottahari Burn and Trauma Hospital - Martyr Rajayi Heart Hospital - Martyr Hashemi Nejad Hospital - Imam Ali Asghar (PBUH) Hospital - Fatima (SA) Hospital and Martyr Ismaili Psychiatric HospitalCurrently, this faculty has 12 educational treatment centers where numerous learners from various levels, from associate degrees to advanced specialty assistance, are engaged in education and training. Some of these centers provide educational, research, and treatment services with a focus on single specialties (pediatric reconstructive surgery, orthopedic emergencies and burns, psychiatry, women's health, and urology). At the Faculty of Medicine, there are 12 departments of basic science education with about one hundred members of the faculty who, in addition to teaching medical students in the basic science course, educate about 350 graduate students (185 master's students and 165 PhD students).Additionally, 28 clinical training groups with more than 700 faculty members provide their training at various levels from internship to subspecialty in the educational treatment centers they cover. The School of Medicine at Iran University of Medical Sciences is responsible for the education of over 1,700 students in the General Medicine program, 1,081 students in the specialty program, 115 students in the subspecialty program, and 170 students in the fellowship program.
Deans of the School of Medicine from the beginning to the present:
Dr. Ali Rezaei Zadeh, orthopedic specialist 1988-1986
Dr. Abdulmajid Moazzedi, internal medicine specialist 1989-1988
Dr. Mohammad Hassan Mahdavidoust, orthopedic specialist 1990-1989
Dr. Noor Ahmad Latifi, subspecialist in reconstructive, plastic, and burn surgery 1978-1990
Dr. Mehdi Nasr Isfahani, psychiatry specialist 1997-1978
Dr. Hossein Farahini, orthopedic specialist 1998-1987
Dr. Seyyed Mehdi Madreseh Zadeh 2005-1998
Dr. Abolfazl Mahdizadeh, obstetrics and gynecology specialist 2006-2005
Dr. Seyyed Javad Haji Mir Asmaeel, cardiologist 2007-2006
Dr. Shahram Agah, subspecialist in gastroenterology 2009-2007
Dr. Rasoul Farast Kish, anesthesiologist 2010-2009
Dr. Gholamreza Shah Hosseini, orthopedic specialist 2013-2010
Dr. Masoud Naseri Pour, Ophthalmologist and eye oncology fellow
Dr. Ali Mohammad Asghari, 1396-1392; ENT specialist, neurotology subspecialist
Dr. Kamran Aghakhani, 97/12/19- 96/7/5; forensic medicine specialist
Dr. Fahimeh Soheili Pour, 1400/7/26- 97/12/19; pediatric specialist, pediatric endocrinology and metabolism subspecialist
Dr. Seyed Morteza Bagheri, 1402/09/14 -1400/7/26; radiologist
Dr. Shabahang Jafarnejad, 1402/09/14; emergency medicine specialist, 1403/8/15 - present.