Freshmen

Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy has been successfully implementing its one-tier English-language medicine programme since 2012. The six-year programme covers 360 credits and is based on ECTS, WFME, and CanMED standards.

The programme aims to prepare qualified doctors with evidence-based knowledge, communication, clinical, research, social, and self-analysis skills together with high ethical and moral standards.

Admission Criteria

Innovative Teaching and Clinical Skills Development

TMA develops a student-centred learning environment shaped by global healthcare challenges and emerging technologies. Students are introduced to clinical cases, real patients, and simulated patients from the first stages of study.

• Lecture-free curriculum focused on active learning and critical thinking
• Open access to major library resources and medical databases
• Peer teaching programme
• CyberPatient virtual hospital with more than 130 clinical cases
• Early clinical experience
• Portfolio-based reflection and personal development planning
• Case-based learning, CBCR, OSCE/OSPE, bedside teaching, flipped classroom, SOE, and simulation-based learning

Funding

TMA operates a flexible funding model to motivate students and encourage high academic performance. All students enrolled at TMA study with full funding during the first academic year.

• GPA 3.5 or higher: 100% tuition funding for the following semester
• GPA 3.0 to 3.5: 50% tuition funding for the following semester
• Students with a state social grant receive additional institutional co-financing equal to 30% of the state social grant amount

Exchange Programmes

From the first year, TMA students can participate in semester, bilateral, short-term, and clinical exchange programmes with academy scholarships at more than 33 partner universities in 21 countries.

The partner network includes universities in Italy, Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Turkey, Egypt, Armenia, Romania, Uzbekistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, France, Kenya, and Croatia.

Student Support Services

As a student-centred institution, TMA provides academic, psychological, and career support services for students.

• Psychological counselling and psycho-emotional support
• Career development support and qualification-exam guidance
• Alumni Club engagement and mentoring

Financial Information

At registration, an entrant must present a receipt confirming payment of half of the semester fee together with the mandatory documents.

The figures above take into account the 50% co-financing from the government grant that TMA covers for students who have received a grant.