Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy ( ro, Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie „Victor Babeș”; abbreviated UMFT) is a

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. The university was founded on 30 December 1944 by decree of the then King of Romania

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. There are three faculties within UMFT: Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy. In 2011, UMFT was classified as an ''education and research university'' by the

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. The university is named after Victor Babeș (1854–1926), the author of the first

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treatise in the world and the founder of the Romanian school of

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History

The school was founded as a faculty on 30 December 1944, when King

signed ''Decree-Law no. 660'': The inauguration of the new university took place on 15 July 1945 and classes started three days later in the Notre Dame High School (present-day Students' House). There were 412 students enrolled in the first year and 76 students in the second year, transferred from other universities. The first class graduated in 1949, counting 70 graduate students. In October 1945, the faculty was given the current premises – the former

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Banatia High School built in 1926, requisitioned and transformed into a Soviet military hospital during World War II. Following the

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, by ''Decree no. 175/1948'' published in the ''Official Gazette no. 177/1948'', the Faculty of Medicine became the Institute of Medicine, having in its composition three faculties: General Medicine, Pediatrics and Hygiene. In 1964, the department with a dental profile became the Faculty of Dentistry. Professor Emanoil Popa, then head of works, professor Nicolae Duțescu (from

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) and head of works Radu Roșiu (from

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) contributed significantly to its establishment. The Faculty of Pharmacy was founded in 1990, the year in which the Institute of Medicine changed its name to the University of Medicine. It received its current name by ''Government Decision no. 23/2001''.

Faculties

Infrastructure

Dormitories

Timisoara, str Regimentul 13 Calarasi 2 (2)

As of 2017, UMFT has about 2,500 student accommodation places in seven dormitories.

Canteen

In the beginning, meals were served at the Territorial Military Center and then at the canteen of the

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until October 1945, when the university founded its own canteen, which today is able to provide meals for 900 people per day. In 2012, UMFT opened the first diet canteen for students with diabetes, congenital heart defects and other diseases.

Library

The library of the Timișoara Institute of Medicine was founded in March 1946 with a number of 40 volumes, the book deposit being common with the reading room, whose capacity was 50 seats. Already from 1948–1949, the first acquisitions of books and magazines began, from bookstores and private individuals. Along the way, with the necessary financial resources, subscriptions were made to specialized magazines in the country and abroad. Currently, the library's holdings exceed 182,000 volumes of books and 31,000 volumes of magazines. The library has 45

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in clinics and laboratories.

References

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