Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy ( ro, Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie „Carol Davila”) or University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, commonly known by the abbreviation UMFCD, is a public

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university in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

, Romania. It is one of the largest and oldest institutions of its kind in Romania. The university uses the facilities of over 20 clinical hospitals all over Bucharest. The Carol Davila University is classified as an "advanced research and education university" by the

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. Created as part of the

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in 1869, the institution is considered one of the most prestigious of its kind in Romania and in Eastern Europe.

Library

The university includes two major libraries, both built in 1869 in a neoclassical and neo-baroque style. Fundatia Universitara Carol I si statuia regelui Carol I

Fundatia Universitara Carol I si statuia regelui Carol I

History

Carol Davila Carol Davila (; 1828 – 24 August 1884) was a prestigious Romanian physician of Italian ancestry. He is considered to be the father of Romanian medicine. Biography He started from humble beginnings, most probably as an abandoned child, and the ...

was a prestigious

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physician of

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ancestry. He studied medicine at the

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, graduating in February 1853. In March 1853, he arrived in Romania. He was the organiser of the military medical service for the

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and of the country's public health system. In 1857, Davila, in collaboration with

Nicolae Crețulescu Nicolae Crețulescu (, surname also spelled Kretzulescu; 1 March 1812 – 26 June 1900) was a Wallachian, later Romanian politician and physician. He served two terms as Prime Minister of Romania: from 1862 to 1863, and from 1865 to 1866. He was ...

, founded the university, at which time it was known under the name of the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy. In the same year, the foundation stone of the University Palace in Bucharest was laid. It was due to Carol Davila's many activities that several scientific associations appeared in Romania: the Medical Society (1857), the Red Cross Society (1876), and the Natural Sciences Society (1876). With his assistance, two medical journals entered print: the ''Medical Register'' (1862) and the ''Medical Gazette'' (1865). On 12 November 1869, it was established the Faculty of Medicine of Bucharest, incorporated in the

. The first doctoral degrees were granted in 1873, and the doctoral degree became the ''de facto'' graduation in 1888. The

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was awarded to George Emil Palade, described as "the most influential cell biologist ever", who had studied at the University of Carol Davila and later served as a Professor and Head of the Department of

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and

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. The School of Pharmacy was founded in 1889 as part of the Faculty of Medicine. In 1923, it was separated and it became the Faculty of Pharmacy. The Faculty of Pharmacy of Carol Davila University is the place where

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was isolated for the first time by

Nicolae Paulescu Nicolae Constantin Paulescu (; 30 October 1869 (O.S.) – 17 July 1931) was a Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine, and politician, most famous for his work on diabetes, including patenting ''pancreine'' (a pancreatic extract containing ...

in 1921, leading to a controversy in the awarding of the 1923 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. In 1948, the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy were separated from the University of Bucharest, and incorporated as the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy. In the same year, the postgraduate Clinical Dentistry Institute was incorporated into the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy as the Faculty of Dentistry. In 1991, the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy changed its name to the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy.

Ranking

According to the Scimago Lab, based on data collected between 2007 and 2011, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy ranked 121 regionally and 12 in the country by number of publications. According to the ''

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'', in a 2019 survey UMFCD along with

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, and Paris Descartes University are considered Europe's medical universities that are leading change. Based on the

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, the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy lies among the top 151–200 Universities in the “medical sciences” domain with regards to the subject "clinical medicine”.

Faculties

* Faculty of Medicine * Faculty of Pharmacy * Faculty of Dentistry

Faculty of Medicine

The higher medical and pharmaceutical education in Bucharest dates back more than a century. Carol Davila, a Romanian physician of Italian origin, in collaboration with Nicholae Kretzulescu founded the Medical education in Romania, by establishing the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy in 1857. Thanks to his activity a number of scientific societies were created, such as the Medical Society, the Red Cross Society and the Natural Sciences Society, and two medical journals, ''The Medical Monitor'' and ''The Medical Gazette''. The building of the Faculty of Medicine was fully completed and inaugurated on 12 October 1903. The initiative to erect a monument to Carol Davila on the same day, was taken at the first national medical conference, which was held in Bucharest in October 1884. The statue, valued work of Carol Storck, was cast in bronze in the School of arts and crafts workshops in Bucharest.Carol Davila, Facultatea de Medicina si cartierul de burghezi
bucurestiivechisinoi.ro Retrieved December 13, 2014. The inauguration of the faculty building is an important date in the evolution of medical education in Bucharest. The new building brought great improvements in the functioning of laboratories and the organization of practical work, as well as in the full didactic activity. In the faculty building there is a fully organized sports center that includes an autonomous indoor swimming pool for the university's representative successful team and in addition an indoor basketball, volleyball and handball court.

Departments

* Pathophysiology and Immunology * Genetics * Internal Medicine and Nephrology * Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology * Internal Medicine and Rheumatology * Medical Expertise and Work Capacity Recovery * Internal Medicine * Cardiology * Internal Medicine and Cardiology * Allergology * Medical - Surgical Care Practice * General Nursing * Neuro - Psychomotor Children Recovery * Recovery, Physical Education, Balneology * Family Medicine * Endocrinology * Biochemistry * Medical Informatics and Biostatistics * History of Medicine * Marketing and Medical Technology * Legal Medicine and Bioethics * Cardiovascular Surgery * Thoracic Surgery * Dermatology * Oncological Dermatology and Allergology * Hygiene and Medical Ecology * Public Health and Management * Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases * Geriatrics and Gerontology * Pneumophysiology * Anesthesia and Intensive Therapy * Surgery * Neurosurgery * General and Esophageal Surgery * Anesthesia and Intensive Therapy * Pharmacology, Toxicology and Clinical Psychopharmacology * Nephrology * Urology * Urological Surgery * Transplantation Immunology * Orthopaedics * Orthopaedics and Traumatology * Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery * Plastic Surgery, Children Reconstructive Surgery * Pediatric Neurology * Occupational Medicine * Child and Adolescent Psychiatry * Medical Psychology * Infectious and Tropical Diseases * Virusology * Epidemiology * Microbiology * Parasitology * Obstetrics and Gynecology * Hematology * Pediatrics * O.R.L. * Ophthalmology * Radiology, Medical Imaging, Nuclear Medicine * Oncology * Radiotherapy and Oncology * Biophysics * Cellular and Molecular Medicine * Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy * Anatomy * Psychiatry * Pathological Anatomy

Faculty of Pharmacy

The Faculty of Pharmacy was created in 1858.

Departments

* Analytical Chemistry * Inorganic Chemistry * Medications Control * Organic Chemistry * Clinical Laboratory * Medical Emergency * Botanic Pharmacy and Cellular Biology * Clinical Pharmacy * Phytochemistry and Phytotherapy * Biochemistry * General and Pharmaceutical Microbiology * Toxicology * Medical Pedagogy * Technical Pharmaceutics

Faculty of Dentistry

Departments

* Clinical and Topografic Anatomy * Anatomy and Embryology * Internal Medicine * Paediatrics * Neurology * O.R.L. * Ophthalmology * Surgery and Anesthesiology * Obstetrics * Pathologic Anatomy * Infectious Diseases * Dermatology * Endocrinology * Pathophysiology and Immunology * Hygiene

Notable alumni

Aurel Babeș Aurel A. Babeș (11 December 1886 – 7 August 1962) was a Romanian scientist and one of the discoverers of the vaginal smear as screening test for cervical cancer. Biography Aurel Babeș was born in 1886, in Bucharest. His father, Aurel V. Bab ...

(1886–1962), Romanian scientist, one of the discoverers of the

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for cervical cancer *

Sorin Lavric Sorin Lavric (born 27 November 1967 in Turnu Severin, Socialist Republic of Romania) is a Romanian writer, philosopher and politician. Having started studying medicine in 1987, Lavric later began studying philosophy as well. Posteriorly, as he d ...

(born 1967), Romanian writer, philosopher and politician *

Mina Minovici Mina Minovici (; April 30, 1858 – April 25, 1933) was a Romanian forensic scientist, known for his extensive research regarding cadaverous alkaloids, putrefaction, simulated mind diseases, and criminal anthropology. Studies He was born in Bră ...

(1858–1933), Romanian forensic scientist * Filip Mișea (1873–1944), Aromanian activist, physician and politician * George Emil Palade (1912–2008), 1974

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in Physiology or Medicine and United States

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in 1986 *

(1869–1931), Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine, politician, discovered

References

External links

Official site
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