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About

Mission, programmes and history of the Faculty.

The Faculty of Medicine of Fianarantsoa offers human medicine and paramedical programmes: general nursing, midwifery, nurse anaesthesia and critical care, and laboratory technician.

The Faculty also offers specialised university diplomas. Its teaching methods include digital tools and simulation.

Through its collaboration with regional and national health structures, it provides a setting that favours medical research and multidisciplinary clinical practice.

Our strengths

  • Qualified teachers
  • Hands-on training
  • Clinical placements
  • Community engagement
  • Ethical practice
  • Clinical skills

Key dates

  1. December 2008. Plan to open a higher-education institution in medicine

    Led by the University Presidency and the newly appointed agrégés in medicine.

  2. November 2009. Launch meeting

    The University President, professors from Fianarantsoa and from the Faculty of Medicine of Antananarivo, local authorities and doctors of the CHU Tambohobe.

    Participants standing at the launch meeting of the Faculty project, November 2009.
    Photo: Faculté de Médecine de Fianarantsoa

  3. December 2009. Opening confirmed by the Deputy Prime Minister for Public Health

    During his visit to Fianarantsoa.

    Two men in suits during the Deputy Prime Minister’s visit to Fianarantsoa, December 2009.
    Photo: Faculté de Médecine de Fianarantsoa

  4. 15 February 2010. Commission to create the Faculty of Medicine

    Joint work by the University of Fianarantsoa and the CHU Tambohobe; the project is refined.

    Members of the founding commission seated around a work table with open files.
    Photo: Faculté de Médecine de Fianarantsoa

  5. March – April 2010. Commission opened to local authorities and civil society

    Local authorities and civil society join the work.

    Four participants seated during a session of the enlarged commission.
    Photo: Faculté de Médecine de Fianarantsoa

  6. 6 May 2010. Recruitment of the new agrégés

    The first teachers of the future Faculty are recruited.

  7. 17 May 2010. Medicine Department created at the University (order no. 11961/2010-MESUPRES)

    Attached to the University’s higher-education institution of sciences.

    Students in class facing a projection screen, in a room of the Department of Medicine.
    Photo: Faculté de Médecine de Fianarantsoa

  8. 28 June 2010. Classes begin, in the CHU Tambohobe conference room

    The hospital lends its premises (lecture room, examination room, office) and equipment.

    Students writing at their desks in a white-walled classroom.
    Photo: Faculté de Médecine de Fianarantsoa

  9. 2014. Faculty established (decree no. 2014-1257)

    The decree creates the higher-education institution in medicine.

  10. 2016. Paramedical programmes join: nursing and midwifery

    The nursing and midwifery programmes join the Faculty.

    Students in white coats around a hospital bed during a clinical placement.
    Photo: Faculté de Médecine de Fianarantsoa

  11. 2018. First cohort of doctors; laboratory technician programme opens

    Eight years after classes began, the Faculty graduates its first doctors.

    Nine teachers in red and black academic gowns, gathered outdoors.
    Photo: Faculté de Médecine de Fianarantsoa

  12. 2021. First cohort of laboratory technicians

    The first laboratory technicians trained in Fianarantsoa graduate.

    Students in lab coats and caps around a workstation in a laboratory.
    Photo: Faculté de Médecine de Fianarantsoa

  13. 2022. Anaesthesia and critical care programme opens

    Nurse anaesthesia and critical care training.

    Electric syringe pump beside a newborn in an incubator.
    Photo: Faculté de Médecine de Fianarantsoa