The AMS History
 The Academy of Medical Sciences of Iran was formally inaugurated in the winter of 1990, having received two years earlier its mandate from the High Council of Cultural Revolution and Legislature of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Its existence had been foreseen in the 1986 Charter the the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. It is one of the four academies of the Republic, of  the other three being The Academy of Sciences and The Academy of Letters and Literature and the Academy of Arts.

The idea of an academy is not new to Iran. But the  concept of a group of qualified and dedicated people being permitted to gather and voice constructive views - even if at variance with announced official policy - is novel to Iran.
This has been the natural outcome of sociopolitical changes evolving from the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979.
A rapidly expanding population, conscious of its social and political rights, plus Revolution the literal
explosion of available technologies in medicine and health care, has prompted the creation of an institution which can be free and capable of mapping out rational scientific approaches to old and new problems.

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