Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu Victor Papilian Faculty of Medicine, Romania

The Faculty of Medicine in Sibiu was founded in 1990. The degree programme of General Medicine was accredited in December 2000 (Act published in M.O. 639/7); the Dental Medicine degree programme has been accredited since August 2005 (Act published in M.O. 766/23). The study programme for Nursing (3 years) has bee accredited as well, while the study programme for Midwifery and Nursing (4 years) has been temporarily authorized to function.

The Faculty has been constantly concerned with developing high quality medical training that meets the national, as well as international standards of competitiveness (in accordance with the European Union`s requirements) so that the degrees are acknowledged all over Europe.

Over 1,300 students are currently involved in undergraduate and post-graduate study programmes and they benefit form the expertise of 138 full-time members of the teaching staff, The Faculty is entitled to organize doctoral studies, MA courses and postgraduate programmes.

The Faculty facilities include clinical hospitals with more than 3,000 beds as well as a modern building of over 5,000 m2 for teaching activities. The informatics laboratory is endowed with a network of 20 computers with fibre-optic internet acess, thus allowing quick access to specialized information for students and teaching staff alike. Medical students benefit from the excellent accommodation facilties provided by the university campus.

According to their academic results, students may benefit from scholarships granted by the Ministry of Education and Research, as well as scholarships abroad due to the partnerships developed by the Faculty with similar institutions in France, Germany, Switzerland, England, etc

“Lucian Blaga” University provides accommodation for over 1,500 students in its 7 hostels and boarding in its 2 refectories.

The Library of the Sibiu Institute of Higher Education was founded in 1969 and it later became a University Library in 1990, when the University of Sibiu was set up.
Until 2008 when a new building was built (in the complex that accomodatess the Faculty of Medicine) the library functioned in different locations, among which the Faculty of Letters and Arts and the academy of the Land Forces.

As of 2000, the library was named of Central Library of the “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu.
The number of collections of the library increased every year by means of new title purchase, by inter-library exchange as well as by donations, acquiring an encyclopedic feature, thus succeeding in meeting the requirements for the fields and the specialisations for the study and research of all faculties of the university.

• Collections of more than 600,000 bibliographic units 350,000 already registered in the on-line catalogue
• 14,000 volumes of periodicals
• subscriptions for important electronic data bases (Springer Link, Legis)
• the applications Alice for Windows, Liberty 3 – specialized library softwares
• free access to the bibliographic data
• free access reading rooms, on 4 levels and distinct domains
• 400 places in the reading rooms, provided with special equipment for Internet connection, computers, scanners and multifunctional printers on every level.