Can music improve our health and quality of life?
Experts from Harvard Medical School addressed this issue. According to them, music boosts our mood and well-being, and music therapy may help during treatments for certain health conditions.
Candles, colorful lights, Indian national dishes and sweets: Indian future doctors celebrated the Festival of lights, Diwali. This year the event was held in the YSMU student dormitory.
Professor Karine Sargsyan, a graduate of Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi, a Visiting Professor of Medical Genetics at YSMU, President of ESBB (European, Middle Eastern & African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking), managing director for International Biobanking and Education,
Boston University Medical School was renamed in honor of two Armenian graduates -Aram Chobanian and Edward Avetisyan.The relation of childhood friends with the American University has more than half a century of history.93-year-old Armenian doctor, philanthropist, cardiologist, Professor of Medical Sciences, member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the new Armenian Medical Journal of YSMU Aram Chobanian was the Honorary President of Boston University in 2003-2005, since 1994 he is foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, since 2000-Honorary member of the American Society of Physicians, since 2002-member of the European Academy of Sciences. He was awarded «Mkhitar Heratsi» medal, as well as the Gold Medal of the Yerevan State Medical University.
Within the framework of the European Union Erasmus + project SAFEMED (Simulation in Undergraduate MEDical Education for Improvement of SAFEty and Quality of Patient Care) project, YSMU specialists held working meetings with representatives of the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and the University of Catania in Italy.
The 40th congress of the European Association of Pediatric Infectious Diseases held in Athens was also attended by the Armenian delegates of Muratsan University Hospital, representing the 100-year-old medical university. Sose Margaryan, as a coordinator of the reanimation department, participated in the Meet the Expert session, which was dedicated to the infections of the joint system. Violeta Manukyan, clinical resident of the same department, participated in the WALTER MARGET EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP within the framework of the conference, during which interesting clinical cases are discussed and presented.
Arusha Shekher, a 4th course student of the Faculty of General Medicine of YSMU, is sure: no matter where she goes and where life takes her, she will be tethered to Yerevan for the rest of her life, carrying in her hand the diploma of MD from YSMU and in her heart – the fond memories and experiences she has gathered over the years.
One of the priorities of the Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi is the expansion of the educational network through the establishment of inter-university and intercultural communication frameworks. The World Health Organization recognizes YSMU as the only state medical university in the Republic of Armenia, which is included in the “World Directory of Medical Schools”.
Anandika Prasad is a 4th course student at the Faculty of General Medicine of Yerevan State Medical University. She was born in a city named Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. “While aiming to become a skillful doctor, I have always been an extrovert and love to master self-confidence at the same time”, she says.