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The Medical University joined the SOCRATES/ERAZMUS programme of the European Community in the 1999 year. This is a programme for contacts with universities from abroad with the intention of increasing the percentage of students undertaking a period of study in another European country. ECTS – EUROPEAN CREDIT TRANSFER SYSTEM. ECTS is a decentralized system based on the principle of mutual trust and confidence between the participating educational institutions. It provides a way of measuring and comparing learning achievements of students by using commonly understood measurements, credits and grades and transferring them from one institution to another, and thus widening the…

For many years after Bulgaria’s liberation, pharmacists have graduated from leading foreign universities. After 1880, only the pharmacist’s assistants were prepared in the country by a regulation approved by the Supreme Medical Council. Therefore, the creation of the Pharmaceutical Department at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Sofia University in 1942, at the suggestion of Prof. Alexiev, was the first focal point of the scientific pharmacy in Bulgaria. The transfer of this department in 1951 to the newly established Medical Academy marks the beginning of today’s Faculty of Pharmacy at the Medical University of Sofia with First Dean…

  In 1950, according to Decree No 246 of the Presidium of the National Assembly, a Medical Academy was established. Thus, the Medical Faculty becomes an independent institution of the Sofia University. Professor M.Markov was appointed as its manager. In the same year, the Institute for the Improvement and Specialization of Physicians was established. In 1954, the Medical Academy was renamed to the Higher Medical Institute – the largest medical school in Bulgaria.

In 1929 and in 1930 the faculty awarded the Doctor Honoris Cause titles to Dr. Moulines and Dr. Marin Rusev.     Over time, the Bulgarian scientific medical schools, led by prominent scientists with international authority, were created. Their names are still highly valued by Bulgarian medicine. Among them are Prof. Metodi Popov (Department of Biology), Prof. Vladimir Markov (Department of Microbiology), Prof. Assen Hadzhiolov (Department of Histology and Embryology), Prof. Vasil Mollov, Prof. Stoyan Kirkovich, Prof. Vladimir Aleksiev (Department Internal Diseases), Prof. Konstantin Pashev (Department of Ophthalmology), Prof. Bogomil Beron (Department of Dermatology) and Prof. Stoyan Belinov (Department of…

  The first lecture at the Faculty or medicine was held on April 10, 1918. The official opening was attended by the Minister of Education and members of the Supreme Medical Council. Professor G. Shishkov read the first lecture on zoology, and the second is from Al.Hristov, professor of physics.  

  The law establishing the Medical Faculty of Sofia University was passed by the 17th National Assembly on November 10, 1917. By decree №21 of His Majesty, King Ferdinand entered into force and is recorded in the government’s White Paper on 22.11.1917g. The draft was submitted by the Minister of Education Petar Peshev. In his address, he says: “Undoubtedly, one of the important governmental tasks we have to accomplish is the opening of the Faculty of Medicine at our university … This is first of all for our national pride and, more importantly, for the sense of the dignity of…