Education is available in both full-time and distance learning formats.
Full-time education:
- 3 years based on secondary education
- 4 years based on primary education
The training is conducted in the Armenian language, following state educational standards, in appropriately equipped classrooms and laboratories, under the guidance of highly qualified professors, with excellent material and technical resources.
Practical training takes place in the relevant professional offices and departments of the "St. Grigor Lusavorich" Medical Center.
Upon completion, graduates are awarded a state-issued diploma, which is also recognized in the United States.
A qualified specialist performs the following activities:
- Obstetrician in a maternity hospital
- Obstetrician in a women's consultation
- Obstetrician in a nurse-obstetric point
The specialist is able to perform the following duties:
- Implement measures aimed at maintaining the health of mothers and children in the serviced population
- Early detection and registration of pregnant women, prenatal monitoring
- Early identification of pathological hidden forms of pregnancy, organizing care, monitoring, and evaluating the situation during their course
- Monitoring and examining adolescents, pregnant women, laboring women, postpartum women, and newborns
- Postpartum care for mothers and newborns
- Prevention of early and late postpartum hemorrhages and septic diseases
- Work on family planning, reproductive health, and maintaining a healthy sexual life
- Conduct educational training for parents within the framework of the "Motherhood School"
- Provide counseling on the benefits of breastfeeding
- Provide information on pain relief methods during childbirth
- Work towards establishing a healthy lifestyle and sexual safe behavior
- Work to prevent sexually transmitted infections (HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, etc.)
- Work to prevent and detect pre-cancerous and cancerous diseases of sexual organs
- Work to improve the quality of life of postmenopausal women, preventing osteoporosis, obesity, and high blood pressure
- Provide counseling assistance to families
- Perform diagnostic, screening, and therapeutic assignments according to the specialty of the unit and physician’s instructions
- Provide emergency assistance and care in obstetric-gynecological pathological situations
- Independently assist in uncomplicated deliveries or assist with the physician in pathological deliveries
- Provide first care for newborns, and if necessary, resuscitate the newborn
- Monitor the condition of the mother during the postpartum period
- Prepare gynecological patients and pregnant women for surgery
- Take necessary samples for laboratory tests
- Perform non-stress test evaluations
- Provide post-surgical care and follow physician’s orders
- Complete medical certificates and other medical documents
- Perform drug dispensation, storage, and distribution
- Implement sanitary-epidemic regimes and prevent nosocomial infections
- Sterilize and disinfect medical items and equipment
- Implement classification, storage, and transportation of medical waste
- Follow safety protocols for medical staff and patients
