Saberi-Firoozi Mehdi, Mir-Madjlessi Seid-Hossein
Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Arch Iran Med. 2009 Jul;12(4):425-31.
During the first half of the 20th century, all subspecialties of internal medicine were managed by general internists and there was no gastroenterologist in Iran.1 The first group of Iranian gastroenterologists who had completed their training program in France started working in Tehran in 1951. Later on, other specialists trained in USA and the United Kingdom joined them. Some of these specialists and some internists with special interest in gastroenterology and hepatology were in charge of gastroenterology education in divisions of internal medicine in the Medical Schools of Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, and other universities, while most of them were also practicing gastroenterology in their private offices on a part-time basis. The establishment of subspecialty training program in gastroenterology and hepatology was firstly started in 1976 in Tehran University and later on and since 1984 in Shaheed Beheshti, and Shiraz Universities. This was a major step in the progress of this subspecialty, which is now one of the most active medical disciplines in Iran.2 In this paper, we aimed to describe the development and evolution of gastroenterology and hepatology in Iran during the last 60 years with emphasis on physicians and scientists, who played a major role in providing the first gastroenterology services in the country or had a major role in training, education, and research in this field. We also describe the attempts that led to the establishment of the Iranian Association of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, as the most important nongovernmental organization in this field.
在20世纪上半叶，伊朗所有内科亚专业均由普通内科医生管理，当时伊朗没有胃肠病学家。1951年，第一批在法国完成培训项目的伊朗胃肠病学家开始在德黑兰工作。后来，其他在美国和英国接受培训的专家也加入了他们。这些专家中的一些人以及一些对胃肠病学和肝病学特别感兴趣的内科医生负责德黑兰、设拉子、伊斯法罕及其他大学医学院内科部门的胃肠病学教育，而他们中的大多数人也在业余时间在私人诊所从事胃肠病学诊疗工作。胃肠病学和肝病学亚专业培训项目于1976年首先在德黑兰大学启动，后来自1984年起在谢赫德贝赫什提大学和设拉子大学开展。这是该亚专业发展进程中的重要一步，如今它已成为伊朗最活跃的医学学科之一。2在本文中，我们旨在描述伊朗胃肠病学和肝病学在过去60年中的发展与演变，重点介绍那些在该国首次提供胃肠病学服务中发挥主要作用，或在该领域的培训、教育和研究中发挥重要作用的医生和科学家。我们还将描述促成伊朗胃肠病学和肝病学协会成立的种种努力，该协会是该领域最重要的非政府组织。
