Emel Gümüş, currently holding the position of Director of Nursing at Tashkent International Medical Center, began his scientific and pedagogical career as an associate professor of the Department of Public Health and Management of Tashkent Medical Academy – doctor of the program “Management in Nursing” of the Institute of Medical Sciences of Istanbul University named after Cerrahpaşa. Emel Gümüş lectures on the subject of “Management in Nursing” for 2nd year students of the Higher Nursing Faculty of the department. Classes are conducted in Uzbek, Russian and English, which increases the interest of students in science and serves to further strengthen their knowledge and skills. The process of communication with students and teachers has become an effective process of exchanging scientific and practical experience.

A week dedicated to the first of December, International AIDS Day, began, entitled “The Role of Preventive Measures for HIV Infection in the Protection of Public Health.” Today, the staff of the department, together with the Republican Center for Combating AIDS and the international Doctors Without Borders Foundation, organized and carried out an action for students under the motto: “check yourself, find out your status.” Students had the opportunity to voluntarily, free of charge, and anonymously undergo rapid testing for HIV infection, viral hepatitis C and syphilis. The campaign included rapid testing for three infections of 57 students from the faculties of 2-medicine, management, dentistry and the faculty of foreign students.