Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Romanian: Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie „Grigore T. Popa”, or UMF Iași) is a public university-level medical school located in Iași, Romania. Named in honor of the scientist Grigore T. Popa, it is classified by the Ministry of Education as an advanced research and education university.

History

Romania has a long-standing tradition in the medical field. The Romanian health care system has been in existence since the 18th century, St. Spiridon Hospital (1757), in Iași, being the oldest in the historical region of Moldavia, and one of the largest in Romania. On 30 November 1859, Surgery School of Iași was inaugurated in the Academia Mihăileană building. Founded by Nicolae Negură, it was the first Romanian language higher learning medical school in Romania.

Iași University of Medicine and Pharmacy, as one of the oldest educational places in Romania, was established on 30 September 1879, as the Faculty of Medicine, incorporated in the University of Iași. In 1948, the Medical School was associated with the School of Pharmacy and the School of Dentistry to form together the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy (renamed, in 1991, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy).

One of the oldest ancient times of higher education in our country, one founded in 1879, as a Faculty of Medicine, being associated more with two other institutions that complete the area of ​​medical training - the Faculty of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Dental Medicine. In 1991, the Institute was confronted with the status of the university, receiving the name of the famous representative of the School of Functional Anatomy Iasi, Grigore T. Popa. Later, the Faculty of Medical Bioengineering is included, the only one of its kind in Romania. The University imposes itself as today with a valuable teaching body as well as with a modernized basic and technical matter, suitable for carrying out the didactic process and the scientific research activity.

Established together with the University of Iași, perhaps the Faculty of Medicine begins on December 1, 1879, is to present to the Government of M. Kogălniceanu and N. Kretzulescu, as well as the shortage of medical staff after the war of independence of 1877. Throughout the time , great personalities have university markings of medicine: Grigore T. Popa, Leon Scully, Petru Poni, CI Parhon, Aristide Peride, Ion Ciure, Ludovic Russ, Ernest Juvara, C. Proca, N. Leon, V. Sion, Fr . Reiner, E. Riegler, Al. Slatineanu, I. Tănăsescu, A. Tupa, V. Rascanu, L. Baliff, J. Nitulescu, O. Franche, Vl. Butureanu, P. Vancea and others.

The University assumes as fundamental roles the formation and improvement of graduates and specialists in medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy, bioengineering and health care, creating, treasuring and disseminating the values ​​of bio-medical sciences and affirming them in the European and world circuits, continually improving the continuum. and the performances of the national public health system, cultivation of the traditions of free and academic thinking of democracy, of deontology and bioethics, in the spirit of recognizing the fundamental rights and freedoms of man and of the principles of the rule of law;

UMF Iasi quickly fulfills missions for the pursuit of the objectives:

• Training of specialists with superior training, performance in relations with national and international aid

• Updating and continuous improvement of specialized training, through different forms of postgraduate education;

• Quality management of the educational services of initial and continuous training offered by the university;

• Optimization of research activities to establish fundamental and applicable, to raise the quality level, increase the competitiveness and affirm the performances of the medical school of Iasi and for the continuous improvement of the nurses;

• Promoting international cooperation relations and integration into the European medical education environment, achieving the standard of structure, quality and efficiency;

• Promoting deontology and bioethics, defending democratic values, respecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual in the right state;

• Ensuring the basis of appropriate materials through all activities, as well as a certain working and living conditions suitable for all academic community members.

The charter of "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iași

This Charter establishes the organizational framework and major options of the university community of the “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iaşi, a state higher education institution in Romania, a legal person of public law and public utility. Also, the university charter regulates the entire activity of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa” Iasi, being elaborated in accordance with the provisions of the Romanian Constitution of 1991, revised in 2003, of the Law of National Education no. 1/2011, published in the M.O. of Romania, Part I no. 18, the year 179 (XXIII), of January 10, 2011, with subsequent amendments and completions, to other normative acts incident to the domain, in force at the time of its elaboration, as well as with the norms of the European Union.
The "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iaşi is a public institution, of higher state medical education, with legal personality, non-profit character, public interest, apolitical. The charter complies with the criteria and standards of academic evaluation and accreditation, provided by law. The mission undertaken by the U.M.F. Iasi is the one for advanced research and education..