The University of Medicine and Pharmacy (UMPh) of Tirgu Mures is a public higher education institution with a history of over 70 years of medical education, among the top three medical universities from Romania and the only one with studies in other local languages (Hungarian line), besides international programmes in English. It currently functions with 3 Faculties: Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dental Medicine and Faculty of Pharmacy. UMPh has a total number of 5500 students in  full-time undergraduate and Master programmes plus doctoral students and residents, of which about 50 residents in Paediatrics (10 per year in a 5 year-rotation programme), and about 500 teaching staff of which  51 phD coordinators including Pediatrics.