Introduction
Message from the head of the center:
I welcome you to the website of the Ophthalmology Department of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Tabriz Ophthalmology Training Group started its independent activity in 1361 in the current location of Tabriz Charitable Medical Training Center and has developed and promoted its activities in the fields of education, research and treatment for 40 years. Currently, various fields such as anterior parts (cornea), vitreous and retina, strabismus and children are expanding in the form of fellowships, and every year 5 ophthalmic assistants and 2 fellowships in the field of cornea and retina and one person in the field It accepts pediatrics and strabismus and after passing the necessary courses and acquiring sufficient clinical skills, it is handed over to the country's ophthalmology community with the presence of experienced and hardworking professors. Annually performing more than 20,000 elective, emergency and outpatient surgeries, as well as more than 200,000 outpatient visits in specialized and sub-specialized clinics of the group, has provided a wide field of educational, research and therapeutic activities for professors, doctors and physicians. Residents and foreigners can develop and improve their services in the field of eye health with easy access to educational and therapeutic materials. The presence of specialized and subspecialized clinics, eye imaging department, laser surgery department, and 10 eye surgery operating rooms is a blessing for the eye department to take greater steps by relying on the experiences and efforts of veteran professors. can be considered for growth and prosperity. Hopefully, the colleagues of the group will be successful and positive in providing eye health services and training ophthalmologists with the assistance and cooperation of the university headquarters.
History of the group
Before the Islamic Revolution, the Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology jointly formed a scientific group called the Department of Eye and Otorhinolaryngology, and until then the number of members of the faculty of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology was many times higher than the faculty of the Eye Department after the revolution and with Reorganization of scientific groups of medical school, departments of urology, ophthalmology, ENT, neuroscopy found a consensus in a scientific group called special surgery group. In 1362, the Ophthalmology Department of the School of Medicine was separated from Imam Hospital and established an independent and specialized Nikokari Ophthalmology Hospital, and after a year, taking into account that the number of faculty members of the Ophthalmology Department for the first time was five people (the minimum number required to form a group) Mirsed's request to form an independent scientific eye group was approved by the medical school, and the eye department was the first department that separated from the special surgery group and created an independent scientific eye group in 1363. In the first decade, the Eye Group tried to attract new graduate colleagues and increase the number of faculty members, and in the second decade, by recruiting top-ranked graduates of the board exam and sending them to different fellowship courses, it was able to join the 18-person faculty of the fellowship college. Anterior canine, posterior canine, strabismus and oculoplasty, have uveitis. Currently, this group operates in an independent hospital with 67 beds in an infrastructure of about 7000 square meters. Since 2016, the permission to start the fellowship course in the anterior and posterior segments has been obtained, and residency training in the above-mentioned courses is done for one person in each field every year. After a lot of follow-up, the permission of the pediatrics and strabismus course was also obtained. And in the continuation of the preparations The glaucoma fellowship course, which is one of the basic needs of the country, will be launched, and the necessary correspondence with the relevant ministry is underway, which is expected to be launched from October 1403.
Group manager: Dr. Alireza Javad Zadeh
Vice-Chancellor of Specialized and Subspecialized Education of the Department: Dr. Farideh Mousavi Vice President of General Medical Education: Dr. Farhad Najafzadeh
Research assistant of the department: Dr. Behzad Falahi Mutlaq
Deputy Education Center: Dr. Nazli Taheri Educational expert of the group: Zahra Mukhtar pour
Head of Pediatrics and Strabismus Department: Dr. Dima Andalib
Head of retina department: Dr. Amir Abdullah Iftikhari Milani
Head of Glaucoma Department: Dr. Ali Mostafaei
Head of the emergency department: Dr. Farhad Najafzadeh