Abadan University of Medical Sciences

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Abadan University of Medical Sciences is a medical school in Iran. It was founded by Ministry of Health and Medical Education in September 1941 as a Nursing Faculty and in 2012 it became an independent faculty of medical school. Abadan city is located in Khuzestan Province, central west of Iran, near the Iraqi-Iran border.

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