MD for Georgian Applicants

Tbilisi Medical Academy offers medical and healthcare-related programs designed to support modern education standards and prepare students for professional careers. Our programs emphasise academic foundation, early clinical training, and thinking, and the practical skills required in healthcare.

The One-Step Medical Education Programme is developed in alignment with international standards, including the Sectoral Benchmark Statement for Medicine, WFME standards, and the CanMEDS 2015 Physician Competency Framework, and is fully compatible with the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS).

The programme prepares future doctors to meet the demands of modern healthcare in both Georgia and internationally. Students gain strong, evidence-based medical knowledge, alongside essential practical skills in clinical reasoning, communication, and research. Equal emphasis is placed on developing critical thinking, self-reflection, and high ethical and professional standards.

The curriculum is built on competency-based medical education (CBME) concept and renewed in compliance to the results of authorization/accreditation process, updated Sectoral Benchmark Statement of Higher Education in Medicine. Accordingly, the curriculum strategy includes student-centered innovative approaches: active methods of problem-based learning (Lecture-free curriculum, TBL, CBL), integration of basic and clinical disciplines, elective courses, extra-curricular and social activities, etc.

The teaching process applies modern teaching, learning and assessment (TLAs) methods that ensure early clinical exposure (ECE) of students, clinical reasoning (CR and CBCR sessions), team work, self-analysis and reflection(portfolio), development of practical and research skills, mastering social roles and ultimately, by the time of graduation, attainment of competencies envisioned by the program.

The assessment and examination systems applied in the curriculum are compliant to international standards defined by the Bologna process, student transfer process makes use of European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). The program is recognized internationally and that allows graduates to take international qualification examinations (USMLE, PLAB, MCI etc.), as well as promotes internationalization of the students.

The teaching is led by high professional academic faculty and invited lecturers trained in modern medical education methodologies, while the efforts of the TMA administration ensure a relevant and modernized infrastructure. Clinical disciplines are instructed at clinics affiliated with TMA.

The Academy offers an enabling environment and complete set of resources for professional growth and development of every student: teaching and research laboratories equipped with modern technologies, clinical skills center, library, virtual teaching technologies, conference halls, auditoriums, examination center, cafeteria, and recreation space.

TMA students participate in various exchange programs, summer schools and scientific events, both in Georgia and abroad.

The annual students tuition fee is 6500 Georgian Lari (GEL)

As of today, more than 250 students are enrolled in the Georgian program of MEDICINE.