Excerpt from the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the creation in 1972 of the only pediatric university in Central Asia - the Central Asian Medical Pediatric Institute (SAMPI): “On the creation of the Central Asian Medical Pediatric Institute in 1972 in the city of Tashkent on the basis of the pediatric faculties of Tashkent and Andijan medical institutes of the Ministry of Health of the Uzbek SSR." Initially, the institute was allocated the building of the 5th infectious diseases hospital in the city of Tashkent, the building of the existing dormitory and the adult clinic of the TSAMPI. The official opening of the institute took place on September 7, 1972 and it became known as the Central Asian Pediatric Medical Institute - SAMPI.
The main goal of the institute was to train highly qualified doctors and pediatricians for the Central Asian republics and Southern Uzbekistan. The reason for this was the large number of children in the Central Asian republics, the lack of pediatricians in the region, the high level of morbidity and mortality among children and the lack of advanced pediatricians.
The first rector of the Institute was the Deputy Minister of Health of Uzbekistan, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Tashkent Medical Institute V. Majidov. Later, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor S.A. was appointed to the post of Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs. Dolimov, vice-rector for scientific work - Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor O.S. Makhmudov, vice-rector for economic affairs - M.A. Kamalov. Honored Teacher of Uzbekistan, Associate Professor S.S. was appointed head of the educational department. Rumi, and the dean of the faculty is Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor F.Kh. Nazarmukhammedov.
Before the opening of the institute, very hard preparatory work began. The main tasks were identified that should be implemented shortly before the start of the academic year: providing 40 departments with professors-teachers, educational material and educational bases, creating a new library, organizing the economic activities of the institute, transferring 2-6 year students of the pediatric faculties of Tashkent and Andijan medical institutes and providing them with dormitories, admitting students to the 1st year, and organizing training for 1-6 courses from September 1.
It should be noted that the new team of the new institute carried out a lot of work on a voluntary basis during the two months of summer vacation, the main tasks were completed and training began in September 1972. The team of the new institute managed to start training in all 6 courses at the same time and successfully passed through difficult trials. During the organizational period, 18 theoretical departments, 6 lecture halls and administration departments were created in 4 adapted educational buildings. 22 clinical departments were located in medical institutions of the city of Tashkent and the Tashkent region. At that time, the necessary material assistance was received from TashMI and its departments - school supplies, furniture, textbooks, etc. In the 1972-1973 academic year, 703 students were admitted to the first year, and among the 3,170 students who began their studies at the institute, there were representatives of 32 nationalities. The ranks of students included 100 students from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, 603 students from Uzbekistan and other countries of the Soviet Union. At the end of this academic year, 449 students successfully graduated from the institute.
In September 1972, the first public organizations were elected, and they actively began their activities. Associate Professor N.Kh. was elected secretary of the party organization. Eshmetov, Chairman of the Employees' Trade Union - Associate Professor R.K. Kurbonov, Chairman of the Students' Trade Union - E.O. Tursunov, the leader of the Komsomol - L. Ivanova. Later, organizations such as the School of Young Teachers (headed by Professor K.S. Suleimonova), the Council of Curators (chaired by U.Z. Kadyrov), and the Bilim Society (headed by Professor V.A. Alimov) also actively began their activity. In subsequent academic years, the number of students admitted increased to 800, and in some years even to a thousand. Every year, up to 50 students from the Republic of Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, up to 15 students from Southern Uzbekistan and about 600 students from cities and regions of the Republic of Uzbekistan were accepted into the first year.
Until 1988, the institute was under the authority of the USSR Ministry of Health, after which it was transferred to the authority of the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan. Since then, the admission of students from neighboring republics has ceased. On April 28, 1989, by order No. 357 of the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan, the Central Asian Medical Pediatric Institute was renamed Tsampi Medical Institute, Tashkent - TSAMPI. Starting from the 1990-1991 academic year, a branch of the institute was organized in the city of Nukus, and professor of the department of biochemistry Zh.M. was appointed director of the branch. Mamutov. Currently, the director of the branch is O.A. Antaniyazova. Over the past period, TSAMPI has trained about 30,000 doctors - pediatricians, pediatric surgeons and infectious disease specialists, of whom 1,065 graduates graduated with honors.
In connection with the increase in the number of students, buildings, educational buildings, clinical bases, and dormitories were expanded: in 1976-1978, 5 dormitories with 1,860 beds were put into operation, in 1976 a new modern morphological building appeared on the territory of the institute, in 1981 an educational medical building - SAMPI school, in 1985 a new children's clinic and in 1990 a 4-story educational and administrative building of the institute was built and put into operation. In 1977, special preparatory courses were organized to prepare students for entering the institute. Later, these courses were transformed into a preparatory faculty, the first dean of which was Kh.Kh. Khakimov, then the department was headed by the head of the department, Professor S.S. Solikhodzhaev. If in the 1974-1975 academic year at TSAMPI more than 3.5 thousand students were taught by 19 professors, 54 associate professors, 178 assistants (of which 103 were candidates of science), then by the 2000-2001 academic year 2,514 students were taught by 349 teachers, of which 46 were doctors sciences and 138 candidates of sciences. By 2012, out of 522 professors teaching about 3,000 students, 63 were doctors of science and 218 were candidates of science.
After the Republic of Uzbekistan gained independence, major reforms were launched in the field of medical education, as in other areas - a new national curriculum was developed and, according to this curriculum, 2-level training of general practitioners and masters (bachelor's and master's degrees).
Currently, in medical institutes, in particular, in TSAMPI, a 7-year training period for general practitioners has been established. Starting from the 2000-2001 academic year, TSAMPI began training masters in the following specialties:
By 2012, the number of master's degrees reached 25.
In accordance with the ongoing reforms in the republic in the field of education in accordance with the requirements of a market economy to create quality personnel, special attention is paid to the training of qualified pediatricians. Over the years of independence, the number of medical institutes has increased. If in the period before Independence there were three of them in the country, now there are 9 of them, with three branches.
Taking this into account, since 1998 the number of students admitted to TSAMPI has decreased to 410, and since 1994, admission to the institute has been carried out on the basis of tests. This form of admission to the institute opened up opportunities for gifted students. Since 1995, the institute also begins to consider admitting students on the basis of an agreement (paid-contract basis), and in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, in addition to the budget quota, since 1997 it is allowed to enroll students on the basis of an agreement. On the one hand, it was suitable for citizens, it was possible to satisfy the needs of some communities, and on the other hand, it played a large role in the material development of state budget institutions in terms of teaching efficiency and material incentives for teachers in a market economy. The effectiveness of the educational process has been the focus of attention of the institute's management since its founding.
