MILITARY-MEDICAL FACULTY AT YEREVAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY IS OF TOP SIGNIFICANCE FOR ARMENIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 28 2006

YEREVAN, March 28. /ARKA/. Military-medical faculty at Yerevan
State Medical University is of top significance for Armenian Defence
Ministry, Deputy Defence Minister Arthur Aghabekyan told journalist
on Tuesday.

He said at a conference focused on military medicine that 20 to 40
earn the university diplomas of military doctors every year.

In his words, this faculty graduates are highly-qualified and their
skills are being upgraded day by day. “Besides, we give them an
opportunity for tuition-free postgraduate internship”, he said. As
many as 12 military doctors completed their internship in 2005,
Aghabekyan said.

The faculty was opened in 1994. 36 military doctors earned diplomas
in 2005.

Military doctors from Albania, the U.S.A., Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine and Austria attended the conference.

The conference is organized by Armenian Defence Ministry and the U.S.
Army European Command.