History
Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS)
This center was initially established in August 1973 under the name of the International Medical Center of Iran and was designated by the World Health Organization as the library and information center for the vast Eastern Mediterranean region.
Based on the decisions of the 103rd meeting of the Higher Council for Education Expansion dated June 5, 1975, the center was authorized to establish a school of medicine in various fields of basic medical sciences and a school of nursing at the levels of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees and a school of paramedical sciences and management of medical and health institutions.
The Medical Center of Iran began its clinical and therapeutic activities in 1974 with its only affiliated hospital, Shahinshahr Clinic (currently Shahid Dr. Rahnemoon Hospital). After the establishment of the schools of nursing and paramedical sciences, it took steps to establish bachelor's degrees in nursing, radiology, and laboratory medicine, and in 1978 it established the School of Medicine.
School of Medicine
In 1986, the Medical Center of Iran officially continued its activities under the name of Iran University of Medical Sciences with the merger of several schools and higher education institutions in medical centers.
Psychiatry Department of Iran University of Medical Sciences
The Department of Psychiatry is one of the academic departments of the School of Medicine of Iran University of Medical Sciences.
This section describes the affiliated educational and therapeutic centers of the department.
1- Iran Psychiatric Educational and Treatment Center
According to existing records, this hospital was previously available to the Prime Minister of the time as a "Student Center," which was granted to the Regional Health Organization of Tehran Province without charge by the late martyr Rajai and named the Nawab Safavi Psychiatric Center. This center began its operations in 1980 and has been assigned to Iran University of Medical Sciences since 1985. The useful area of this center is 8,000 square meters, and its total area is 35,800 square meters. Currently, this center operates as the Iran Psychiatric Center.
President's phone: 44503402
Fax number: 44503401
Center address: 7 km of Karaj Special Road, next to the north entrance of Azadegan Highway
Phone: 44503395-9
Types of educational and specialized training:
Specialized psychiatric training, fellowship psychotherapy training, medical internship and residency training, training for occupational therapy, nursing, and psychology students.
Hospital departments:
Men, Women, Addiction, Emergency, Mehr
Rotational training courses for residency:
Adult Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Community-Oriented, Emergency, Addiction, Instrumental
Number of fixed and active beds:
150 fixed beds and 160 active beds
Diagnostic and therapeutic services:
Inpatient and outpatient adult drug and non-drug treatments, outpatient child and adolescent drug and non-drug treatments, neuropsychological laboratory, inpatient and outpatient addiction department, psychology, occupational therapy, dentistry, EEG, radiology, laboratory, ECT
2- Hazrat Rasool Akram Educational and Treatment Complex
This complex, endowed by Mr. Mehdi Batmanghelich on a land area of 50,000 square meters for the hospital, gradually saw the construction of the medical college and Hazrat Amir al-Momenin Hospital, which became operational after the Islamic Revolution. Concurrently with the construction of Hazrat Amir al-Momenin Hospital, the construction of Hazrat Mohammad (PBUH) Hospital began, and its building was completed in 1979. Following the earthquake retrofitting of Hazrat Mohammad (PBUH) Hospital and the completion of Hazrat Seyyed al-Shohada building, it was inaugurated on 24/1/1374 by the then President, Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani. In 2014, seventy percent of the complex's space was renovated.
Center address: Sattarkhan Street – Niayesh Street 9-66515001
Types of educational and specialized training:
General Medicine, Internal Medicine, Subspecialty Internal Medicine Fields, Internal Diseases, Cardiology, Pediatric Diseases, Anesthesiology and Subspecialty Fields (Pain, ICU), Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Social Medicine, Sports Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Occupational Medicine, Orthopedics, General Surgery and Subspecialty Surgery Fields, Urological and Genital Surgery, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology and Subspecialty Fields, Psychiatry, Psychology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Pathology, Neurology, Dermatology, Infectious Diseases.
Hospital departments:
Internal 1 and 2, Neurological Internal, General, Subspecialty Internal Fields, Infectious Diseases, General Surgery and Subspecialty Surgery Fields, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Women, Dermatology, Oncology, Chemotherapy, Radiology, Psychiatry, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Emergency, ICU (5 specialized ICU units), CCU, Post CCU, Transplant, Neurology,
Psychiatry Department:
The psychiatry department with 30 beds is located on the seventh floor of this hospital. In addition to the psychiatry academic staff and trained nursing staff in mental health, this department includes psychology and occupational therapy units and offers specialized psychiatric services for adults, liaison-consultation, elderly, and Instrumental.
Adult Psychiatry Unit:
Includes 6 inpatient beds.
Liaison-Consultation Psychiatry Unit:
On average, 30 to 40 consultations from other departments are referred to this unit monthly. This unit also has an outpatient clinic on Sundays and Tuesdays and an obesity clinic on Wednesdays with 12 inpatient beds offering somatic mental health services to patients.
Elderly Psychiatry Unit:
Includes 12 inpatient beds and an outpatient clinic and memory clinic on Saturdays and Wednesdays, offering specialized services to elderly patients with cognitive disorders and other psychiatric disorders.
Instrumental Psychiatry Unit:
This unit includes neurofeedback, tDCS, rTMS, and a sleep laboratory. Specialized sleep tests such as MSLT and PSG are performed in the sleep laboratory. The sleep disorders clinic operates on Saturdays and Mondays in this hospital. Training related to EEG and Brain Imaging is conducted in this unit.
Psychology Unit:
Consists of 3 clinical psychologists with master's degrees providing psychotherapeutic services and psychological assessments such as psychological tests.
Occupational Therapy Unit:
The occupational therapy room is equipped with sports and art equipment operated by an occupational therapist.
Clinics:
Internal (including general internal and all subspecialty rheumatology, lung, gastroenterology, nephrology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology), Surgery (including general surgery and many subspecialty fields like colorectal, vascular, head and neck, thorax, bariatric), Women, Pediatrics, Newborns, Eye, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Dermatology, Psychiatry, Psychology, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Infectious Diseases, Urology, Anesthesiology, Pain, Women, Immunology, Allergy, Public Health and Family Planning, Nutrition and Diet Therapy, Diabetes, Chemotherapy, Sports Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy, Genetics, Occupational Medicine, Dentistry, Infectious Diseases
Psychiatry Clinics:
Outpatient psychiatric services are provided in the adult and psychosomatic psychiatry, obesity, elderly, memory, and sleep clinics, and the psychology clinic.
Number of fixed and active beds:
850 fixed beds and 680 active beds
Paraclinic:
Vaccination, bone density, optometry, muscle electrography, EEG, polysomnography, radiology, laboratory, ECG, echocardiography, Doppler, Physiotherapy, Nuclear Medicine,
3- Faculty of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Psychiatric Institute)
The Tehran Psychiatric Institute was established in 1977 as an educational and residency center with educational, research, and therapeutic goals to coordinate all psychiatric units across the country and develop psychiatric services by training specialized human resources in psychiatry and master's in psychiatric nursing. Its initial goals were:
A) Training human resources at different levels required for mental health, treatment, and education of psychiatry in the country.
B) Planning general mental health education.
C) Implementing psychiatric education for the training centers of the Ministry of Health at the time.
D) Creating various retraining courses at different levels.
E) Conducting foundational research in the field of mental illnesses and mental health.
F) Developing and expanding the national library and documentation center for psychiatry.
Following social changes in the country and organizational changes in the Ministry of Health in 1979, the center was renamed the Tehran Institute of Psychiatry and came under the auspices of the Regional Health Organization of Tehran Province, then under the supervision of the educational and research complex of the Ministry of Health, and in 1985, after the merger of universities, it became one of the units of Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services.
In 1985, after separating the nursing group, the institute became responsible for training clinical psychology master's students. In the first half of 1997, it was selected by the World Health Organization as a joint center for cooperation in mental health. Later in the second half of 1997, in addition to teaching psychiatry residents and clinical psychology master's students, it took on the responsibility of training and educating in clinical psychology Ph.D. programs. From the beginning of 2001, given its history of conducting various research in mental health and having academic and technical staff in research, education, and treatment, it was recognized by the Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education as a national academic, educational-research hub and became a mental health research center from 2002.
During the merger process of Iran University of Medical Sciences into Tehran University of Medical Sciences and its re-separation during the years 2011 to 2013, the Tehran Institute of Psychiatry was transformed into the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health. After this event, the training of psychiatry residents was transferred to the Faculty of Medicine.
4- Hazrat Ali Asghar Hospital
This center was built by a philanthropist named Engineer Kamrani on a land area of 5,130 square meters and a building area of 8,500 square meters and was launched as the Free City Hospital by the philanthropic foundation in 1964.
The hospital is located on Modares North Highway, Shahid Dastgerdi (Zafar) Street, and is active in all subspecialty fields of pediatrics, including:
Kidney diseases, oncology, surgery, lung diseases, neonatal diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, allergies, endocrine and metabolic diseases, infectious diseases, neurological diseases, psychiatry, genetics, orthopedics, otolaryngology.
The hospital has 142 active beds.
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry department and clinic of Hazrat Ali Asghar Children's Hospital started its operation in 2008.
Due to some organizational problems, the activity of this department was suspended for more than a year in 2013.
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry department of Hazrat Ali Asghar Children's Hospital, with 6 beds and one isolation room, resumed its activities from February 2016. With the presence of subspecialty pediatric psychiatrists and trained psychiatric nursing staff, this department strives to provide suitable treatment facilities for patients.
Currently, the outpatient clinic of this hospital is active with the presence of three subspecialty staff.