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MEDICAL EDUCATION IN UZBEKISTAN
Every year in Uzbekistan many young people who has the secondary education, who really care for medicine and have passed successfully their entrance examinations, enter the medical institutes and become students. At a Bachelor’s Degree the course of study is seven years. During this period the students master the basis of theoretical and practical medicine. In the first, second and third courses medical students study pre-clinical subjects such as Latin Medical Terminology, Human Anatomy, Histology, Biology, Organic and Nonorganic Chemistry, Normal and Pathological Physiology, Foreign Languages and others. It’s very important for medical workers to know foreign languages. They can read special medical literature in the original to know more about modern medical scientific achievements. When the academic year is over students have practical training. They work as nurses and doctor’s assistants at the therapeutic, surgical and other departments and learn how to measure blood pressure, take temperature, count pulse rate, give intramuscular and intravenous injections and to take care of patients. At the senior courses medical students study special subjects. They gain professional skill in the Clinical Hospitals of our republic. In seven years of hard study the students gain the necessary knowledge and get a diploma of a general practitioner. Those who want to continue their medical education enter the department of Master’s Degree. During the three-year period they gain more experience in one of the chosen clinical subjects and defend Master’s dissertation at the end of the course of study.