A doctor's main mission is to serve the people in illness and in pain in the best way possible: they should be that powerful chain that makes society feel safe and sound. These are words of a 20-year-old Burhan Kantawala, an Indian student of Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi, Faculty of General Medicine.
18/08/2020The Indian students of Yerevan State Medical University took part in the Independence Day event organized at the Indian Embassy in Armenia. Indian future doctors performed music and dance numbers. The students also took part in the flag-waving ceremony. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to the Republic of Armenia, His Excellency Kishan Dan Diwal, attended the official ceremony.
Najmeh Fazeli, a 25-year-old future dentist, has recently graduated from Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi. She considers Armenia a heaven, and the education at YSMU – a great opportunity to learn more.
Srishti Saxena, a 5th course student of Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi, Dean’s-office of International Students, came from India to Armenia 4 years ago: now Armenia has become her second home.
Armenian American famous nutrition specialist Caroline Apovian is the Director of the Partnership Program between the Boston University and Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi. She is also interested in doing research around the farmlands in Armenia because those children are not growing properly, they are not getting enough protein.
Yerevan State Medical University graduate, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Department at University of Maryland, USA, urologist and neurosurgeon Kaspar Keledjian is a worthy descendant of the generation that survived the Armenian Genocide. From Beirut to Yerevan, from Yerevan to Beirut again, and then to Maryland, USA – this was the difficult but fulfilling path of the future doctor.
889 graduates of Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi swore in at the solemn sitting of the Scientific Council of YSMU in the yard of the historical building of «Heratsi» N1 University Hospital Complex.
As an Armenian and Canadian working at the World Health Organization, Yerevan State Medical University graduate and visiting professor, dentist, public health manager, professor, statesman and politician Garry Aslanyan feels proud of his little team’s work, knowing that it saves lives every day.
During the online discussion, organized today, the specialists of Yerevan State Medical University touched upon many issues related to COVID-19. “Medical workers should be evaluated much higher, we cannot use the medical potential generously,” said YSMU Rector Armen Muradyan.