Rector Speech

I assure you, dear students, that we will do our utmost to offer you the highest quality education towards your professional and human formation of the highest level. The University of Medicine, Tirana represents a productive and innovative academic environment of health sciences that promotes the exchange of knowledge and creativity through scientific research and internationalization. Every year you will have excellent opportunities for student exchanges in the ERASMUS programs and not only, with dozens of foreign partner universities; as well as active participation in numerous scientific research projects.

The medical university of the future aims to become a reference center for medical studies in the region and beyond, educating doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists, midwives, technicians; all health professionals; with prominent social responsibility and representation in terms of specific contribution to collective health well-being.

At our university, we aim to form a new format of health professional; capable of integrating naturally into healthcare systems and contemporary hospitals; where patient care is combined with Education and Scientific Research.

A primary objective of the university remains the integration and harmonization of health professions and our study programs at every level through the creation of an inter-professional humanistic culture centered on the patient as a person with inalienable individuality.

For 9 years now, the White Shirt Ceremony has marked the beginning of the academic year at our university, but this is the first year that we are all together, conveying the important message that the white shirt is not just for doctors; it represents a unifying and purifying symbol for all health professions. Today, at the center of medical sciences is health and not disease; of course, the right approach to this new paradigm is multidimensional, empathetic and transversal through multidisciplinary treatment by all healthcare operators.

Dear fellow educators; the major challenge that awaits us in the coming years is digital informatization and the applications of Artificial Intelligence in medical sciences and the teaching process. In a few years, an accelerated evolution of the development of innovative technologies and precision medicine has occurred. In our vision, we consider that the large-scale application of advanced digital technologies complements, but does not replace, the essential value of the human being as an inalienable personality; always at the center of every decision-making in the field of medicine.

In this approach, where advanced technology and people work together for the common good, the University of Medicine, Tirana also fulfills the 'third mission' as a social responsibility for the health well-being of the community through attention to healthy lifestyles and the implementation of the values ​​of dialogue and communication; education; diversity, inclusion and cultural exchanges.

In conclusion, once again I wish you all a successful academic year, health, success and personal development at all levels of your studies!