- Address: 51/2 Ketevan Dedofali Ave, Tbilisi 0144, Georgia
- Founded: 1992
- Number of students: 1,048
- Phone: +995 32 291 24 84
- Email : tma@tma.edu.ge
HISTORY OF TMA
Tbilisi Medical Academy was founded in 1992 by notable Georgian physician, and pediatric surgeon, Petre Shotadze. After graduating of Tbilisi State Medical University in 1970, all of his doctoral, scientific, and academic activities were connected to Tbilisi State Institute of Postgraduate Education for Physicians, where he went from being a postgraduate student to the Head of Pediatric Surgery and the Rector. In 1999, following the demise of Dr. Shotadze, Tbilisi Medical Academy was renamed as “Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy”. Since its foundation, TMA has grown to more than 1700 graduates who work successfully in leading Georgian and International Hospitals, Universities, and Scientific Centres.
MISSION, GOALS AND STRATEGY
TMA, as a student-oriented higher education institution, primarily seeks to teach and develop national and international healthcare professionals in an innovative manner by using evidence-based knowledge, whilst practically benefiting the community in Georgia through research-based outreach activities.
The main goal of the Academy is to elaborate independent and critical thinking, scientific reasoning abilities, and reasonable judgments among students, in order to support their development into highly qualified specialists.
CREATING A NEW LOGO
The identity of the academy is visually expressed through the logo. It depicts an OWL, which is a symbol of wisdom. The academy is a carrier of 30 years of experience and history, which is why the owl has become our coat of arms, and the BOOK, with its founding date, attaches greater importance to the logo. The last step is to select the color. The color BLUE is a symbol of wisdom, loyalty, trust and authority. Because the academy is distinguished by these qualities and raises the best doctors for the same motives, the color expressing the logo was easily selected.