Considering the fact that
internationalizing of higher education and developing university exchanges lead
to social development, the university director of international affairs said:
"doing so will expand social experiences and cultural knowledge of students
and university staffs, and will result to learning more about different nations
and cultures; it leads to a growth spurt regarding to learning, creativity and
innovation".

Dr. Ahmadi emphasized that
internationalization is the process of integrating international,
cross-cultural and global dimensions with aims, activities and administrating
higher education in a way that increases respect for cultural differences and
different customs; then he added: "in this regard, the international
center was established in 2015 by deputy vice chancellor of Birjand University
of Medical Science".

He said that this center aims to provide suitable
context for comprehensive international affairs and added: "the first
mission of the international center is to stablish and broaden scientific
relationships between this university and other universities and educational
centers in Iran and abroad, based on the framework of regulations of the
government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The university director of international
affairs listed the main objectives of this project as follow:

• using scientific and research capabilities that
  are available in the university in regard to meet scientific demands of
  applicants


• creating necessary areas for applicants to
  attend in educational courses personally or in teams to meet their needs


• empowering the university,
  faculty members and students to improve and flourish


• planning to increase
  admission of non- Iranian students in Birjand University of Medical Science


• signing memorandum of understanding between the
  university and the universities of the other countries focusing on research and
  education

Dr. Amozeshi remarked that Iran has a long
history in science and education and also in the case of international
education and studies it has an outstanding history. Then he said:
"regarding the borderlines between Iran and Afghanistan and having
professional experts in medical area, South Khorasan Province and Birjand
University of Science have the best conditions to operationalize this important
issue".

Dr. Amozeshi confirmed that Birjand University of Medical Sciences
is approved to be a focal point for Afghanistan in region 9 logistics point and
he said: "establishing the office of international affairs in university,
establishing a committee to absorb international students, approving the bill
to increase motivation and interest of board members and codification of
applying process of non-Iranian students in university are other activities in
this scope".

He mentioned to codification of some contracts
and memoranda together with Afghanistan universities namely, Kateb University,
Ghazni University and Khatam-Al-Nabieen University and he said: "in this
regard some activities have been done that are as follow:

visiting the educational and medical
facilities of the university by authorities of the above mentioned
universities; codification of some joint educational courses in shot terms for
Afghan students;holding surgical
classes for Afghan students using teleconference; holding a four months course
in midwifery for Afghan midwifery students in Iran; holding a supplementary
one-year medical science course for Afghan students in Iran and absorbing
Afghan students in different fields of study of the university.

As stated by Dr. Amozeshi, other activities
done by the university director of international affairs are:

using a system to confirm qualification of
non-Iranian students in the university for non-Iranian students; coordination
for admission of students and patients form Herat, a city in Afghanistan; holding
educational courses based on WFME standards for medical university; introducing
a representative from consular; presenting and accepting some papers, speeches,
research plans related to internationalization; visiting an agent of Dari Radio
in Mashhad; codification of a blended educational course for non-Iranian
students; and conferring MBBS degrees for non-Iranian medical students.