TEHRAN – Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Paris Descartes University signed a memorandum of understanding in a bid to boost their scientific ties, Fars reported on Tuesday.

The MOU was signed during the visit of Mohammad Haji-Aqajani, the chancellor of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, and his deputies to France’s top medical universities.

Conducting joint research projects and training courses and exchanging of professors and students are among the main purposes of this MOU.

After discussing the curriculum of ‘emergency medicine’, the officials reached an initial agreement for running joint training courses on this medical specialty.

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