Total Number of  Course Credits :

All  are composed of 50 credits distributed as follows:Table1

 

Course	Credit
Core courses	28
Non core Courses	2
Thesis	20
Total	50

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-In addition to course credits  , students are required to take a maximum of 16 make up lessons recognized by the education system and  approved by university graduate council.

 

Make up Lessons in PhD Educational Program

-Medical information system

- Reading, interpretation and correction of Persian medical texts

- Reading and translation of Arabic medical texts

- Complementary medicine and Folklore

- Ethics, law and medical jurisprudence

- Analytical history of medicine

- Research method in classical and traditional medicine

- logic and its application in medicine

-  Preventive standards

- Islamic teachings in medicine

- Management and multiple social research in medicine

- Bibliography and fundamentals of medical text correction

 

In addition to course units, the student is required to take a maximum of 16 make up courses recognized by the education system and approved by university graduate council.

Taking the related course is compulsory for all students who haven’t passed it before.

 

Core Courses in PhD Educational Program

Table 2

 

Table 2: PhD core curriculum in traditional medicine

Code	subject	course			Hours			Prerequisite
		Theoretical Units	Practical Units	Total	Theoretical Units	Practical Units
13	Koliat and omortabieh(generalities and natural affairs)	2	-	2	34	-	44
14	Asbab elal dalael and alaem(The causes and reasons)	2	-	2	34		34	-
15	Mofradat (Materia medica)and Qarabadin	4	1.5	2.5	26	85	111	-
16	Fundamentals of therapeutics in	4	4	-	68	-	68	14
17	General issues of Iranian Islamic medicine	3	3	-	51	-	51	16
18	Minor Surgeries	3	1	2	17	68	85	17
19	Emergencies and new methods of diagnosis and treatment of diseases in classical medicine	4	1	3	17	102	119	-
20	Internship 1	2	-	2	-	136	136	18
21	Internship 2	2	-	2	-	136	136	20
22	thesis	20	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total		38

Non Core Courses in PhD Educational Program

Table 3

 

Table 3 PhD Non Core Courses in Traditional Medicine

Code	subject	course			Hours			Prerequisite   -
		theoretical Units	Practical Units	Total	Theoretical	Practical	Total
14	Comparative study of medical correspondence in the era of Islamic civilization	2	-	2	34	-	34
15	The application of modern technology in traditional medicine	2	1	1	17	34	51	-
16	New approaches to teaching and principles of behavioral skills Clinical  Medicine,	2	1	1	17	34	51	-
	- Exclusive nutrition and ways of providing special meals	2	1	1	17	34	51	-
	- Message therapy	2	1	1	17	34	51	-
	Hypnosis and Psychological treatments	2	1	1	17	34	51	-
Total	12

 

For taking 2 credits of  the said courses related to the subject of the thesis, the candidate is expected to seek the approval of supervisor as well as university graduate council.

 

 Traditional Pharmacy

Medicinal plants ,with a long brilliant history in Iran,  have a significant role in disease prevention and treatment, in which case it can solve many medical problems alongside modern medicine. Likewise, WHO ( World Health Organization) recognizes health service and native pharmacy as the most appropriate way for having access to safe and affordable medicine.

All in all, conditions and capabilities of current community in Iran along with historical background and emphasis of global scientific societies, including WHO, on  traditional treatments provide certain guidelines to help population. Consideration also has been given to use  traditional medicine property's

 

It should be noted that regarding this history and  establishment of faculty of traditional medicine  in Babol University of Medical Sciences,  traditional pharmacy with specialty related fields has commenced admitting PhD students. In addition, it comprises research design and investigates the efficiency of traditional products in the form of a thesis. A maximum of PhD credits is 48 credits composed of 24 credits  of core course, 2 credits of non core courses and 22 credits for thesis which has been approved by ministry of health. It is also presented in the following tables.`

 

Table4: PhD core curriculum in traditional pharmacy

Code	subject	course			Hours			Prerequisite
		Theoretical Units	Practical Units	Total	Theoretical Units	Practical Units
06	Traditional Iranian Medicine (fundamentals)	2	-	2	34		44
07	Tadbire Hefze Salamat and principles of prevention	2	-	2	34		34	-
08	Introducing medical texts and traditional pharmacy	3	1	4	51	44	85	07
09	Qarabadin	2	2	2	34	68	102	06
10	Fundamentals of herbal therapy	2		2	34		44	-
11	Raw materials identification	2	2	4	34	68	102	09
12	Control the quality of traditional medicine	2	2	4	34	68	102	09
13	Internship in herbal pharmacy	-	2	2	-	102	102	09
14	thesis	22	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total		46

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 5: PhD Non Core Courses in Traditional Pharmacy

 

	Code	subject	course			Hours			Prerequisite   -
			theoretical Units	Practical Units	Total	Theoretical	Practical	Total
14	Complementary Medicine	2	-	2	34	-	34
15	History of Medicine and Iran pharmacy	2	-	2	34	-	44	-
16	Materia medica	1	1	2	17	34	51	-
Total	6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students are required to take 2 credits of these  non core courses suggested by the education system and are approved by university graduate council.

 

Eventually, Doctoral graduates play a significant role in educational and research activities.

The educational affairs can be considered as follows:

-Education of specialists in this given area with the aim of teaching general and specialty units  to PhD students

- Providing specialty texts

- Education of herbal medicine manufacturers

- Providing an effective lesson plan

- Teaching and giving fresh knowledge to pharmacy graduates regarding traditional products in the form of education workshops

 

Likewise, The followings are regarded as research affairs in this area :

-Correcting medical and traditional pharmaceutical texts

- Collecting information about medicinal plants in order to being used

- Research on production of medicine derived traditional medicine resources and also carrying out shared research with manufactures of medicinal plants with the aim of solving their  problems related to traditional pharmacy

- Writing articles from research design and publishment in valid scientific bases

Address: Mazandaran. Babol. Ganj Afrouz Ave. Babol university of medical sciences

Postal code: 47176 - 47745

Phone: 01132194728 - 32194730

E- mail: timbabol@yahoo.com

Tim.mubabol.ac.ir

In case you are ready to apply, please refer to MUBabol Online Application Form below.
Apply Now

Alternatively, you can visit the following pages if you require more information about the university:
•    Undergraduate Admission Requirements
•    Scholarships and Financial Aids
•    Education Fees and Yearly Expenses
•    Student Housing
•    Undergraduate Programs
•    Other Programs