KHARKIV  NATIONAL  MEDICAL  UNIVERSITY

DESCRIPTION

The history of the higher medical school in Kharkiv is more than 200 years long and closely connected with the history of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, because it sprang from its Medical Faculty. The University was founded in 1805, a decree about its foundation was signed by the Russian Tsar Alexander I, and the first Statutes of the University were approved at that time.

In the XIX century, widely known doctors and scientists taught at the Medical Faculty of the University and worked in practical medicine. It was them who, for the first time in the Russian Empire, performed operations of ovariotomy, total resection of the stomach, operations on the open heart, as well as made significant scientific discoveries. In 1887, a special building was erected for the anatomical theatre of the Medical Faculty (now it houses the Department of Human Anatomy of our higher school); in 1896, four independent University clinics were built, namely: therapeutic, surgical, obstetrical and ophthalmological.

In 1910, the Kharkov Medical Society, which was created on the initiative of professors of the Medical faculty, founded the Women’s Medical Institute, where higher education was given to women.

In 1920 the Medical Faculty of Kharkov University was united with the Women’s Medical Institute, and Kharkov Medical Academy was founded; one year later the latter was given another name: Kharkov Medical Institute. Among its teachers there were a lot of outstanding pedagogues and scientists; streets of the City of Kharkov were named after some of them. These are: physiologist Danilevsky V.Ya., surgeon Trinkler N.P., anatomist Vorobyov V.P., ophthalmologist Girschman L.L., therapeutist Frankovsky V.A.

Many research institutes, hospitals and clinics were founded on initiatives of lecturers of KhNMU. These are, in particular, the Institute of General and Emergency Surgery, Malaya Institute of Therapy, Shapoval Regional Clinical Centre of Urology and Nephrology, etc. They became the basis for scientific and medical work of our University Departments in these fields.

In 1951, the University started training of foreign students. By now, the University has trained more than 3,600 specialists for different countries of the world.

In 1994, by a Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Kharkov Medical Institute served as the basis for founding Kharkiv State Medical University; the latter received the highest 4th category by results of its accreditation and fully justifies it today. In 2007 our University received the National status.

OUR UNIVERSITY TODAY

• is a member of the International Association of Universities, registered under UNESCO;

• has 8 Faculties: 1st – Medical, 2nd – Medical, 3rd – Medical, 4th – Medical, Stomatological, 5th and 6th – Medical Faculties for Training Foreign Students; these Faculties graduate doctors with the education-qualification level of a Specialist in such specialities as General Medicine, Paediatrics, Preventive Medicine, Stomatology; the Faculty of Postgraduate Training provides continuous development of doctors’ skills during all their professional activity;

• has 65 Departments, whose faculty numbers 803 specialists in sciences and pedagogy; of them, there are 130 Doctors of Medical Science, Professors and 446 Candidates of Medical Science, Associate Professors;

• trains over 7,000 students, interns, masters, clinical postgraduates, postgraduates and doctoral candidates, more than 2,100 of them being foreign citizens from 70 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and America;

• has the following personnel potential: 5 corresponding members of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, 17 Honoured Workers of Science and Engineering of Ukraine, 2 Honoured Workers of Higher School of Ukraine, 8 winners of State Prize of Ukraine in the fields of science and engineering, 13 Honoured Doctors of Ukraine, 28 members of the State and public Academies of Ukraine;

• is a modern multi-type educational establishment with its powerful scientific, material and technical basis, which includes: 6 education-research-production units; 2 research institutes, such as the Research Institute of Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Diseases of KhNMU and the Ukrainian Institute of Clinical Genetics of KhNMU; the University Stomatological Centre as the medical-educational-scientific unit of KhNMU; the Scientific-Practical Medical Centre of KhNMU; the Ukrainian Scientific-Practical Medical Centre of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductology; the Medical College of KhNMU;

• has 44 clinical Departments, where medical work is done by 497 workers of the University (these consist of 96 Professors, 191 Associate Professors and 210 assistants) and 128 doctors of the University clinics, 73 postgraduates, 48 clinical postgraduates and 32 masters; of them, there are 331 medical workers with the highest category, 68 with the first, and 59 with the second;

• has 5 specialized academic councils for defending Doctor’s and Candidate’s theses; carries out training of doctors and scientists at such stages as interns, masters, clinical postgraduates, postgraduates and doctoral candidates;

• took part in 126 international scientific forums and 340 Ukrainian scientific forums;

• cooperates with 18 foreign institutions;

• participates in the realization of 16 international projects; 65 of its workers are members of 66 foreign scientific and medical organizations;

• has the Central Research Laboratory, 4 problem laboratories, the Educational-Scientific Centre based on classrooms for phantom techniques of education and computerized classrooms, and the Computer Centre;

• has the Scientific Library, whose fund comprises over 1 million copies, and 16 computerized classrooms; more than 550 modern computers, video and audio aids are used in the process of training;

• is the place for active functioning of 18 scientific-pedagogical schools;

• has its students’ self-government, six hostels, with the successful work of the Youth Centre, the complex for physical education and health improvement, and “Medic” sports-health camp;

• was a recipient of the Gold Medal of the International Exhibition “Education and Career – 2010” in the nomination “Development of Students’ Research”.

LEVELS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

FORMS OF EDUCATION

LANGUAGES OF EDUCATION

TERMS OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS

STUDENT SETTLEMENT

Bachelor, Master, Doctor of Science, Ph.D

Full-time, part-time, distance.

Ukrainian, Russian, English.

The university holds an admission company twice a year.
Deadlines for submission of applications and documents:
From July 1 to November 1 - the beginning of the fall semester;
From January 1 to March 1 - the beginning of the winter semester.

Accommodation for the foreign students is provided by student hostels rated at 2,422 lodgers. In order to live at a hostel, the students must conclude a proper contract. This accommodation is available for the whole period of training. Hostel fees depend upon the size and comfort of the dwelling space.
The University Scientific-Practical Medical Centre provides medical care of students. The students regularly undergo prophylactic medical and photofluorographic examinations.
The students have meals at 2 canteens for 160 clients and 6 refreshment bars for 80 clients.
The students are provided with facilities for going in for sports. The University has 3 gymnasia (for games, gymnastics and heavy athletics).

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Department of Surgery No. 3

Department of Surgery No. 2

Department of Surgery No. 1

Department of Phthisiology and Pulmonology

Department of Pharmacology and Drug Prescription

Department of Philosophy

Department of physical rehabilitation, sports medicine with a course of physical education and health

Department of Physiology

Department of Urology, Nephrology and Andrology

Department of the Ukrainian Language, Principles of Psychology and Education Science

Department of Traumatology and Orthopaedics

Department of Therapeutic Dentistry

Department of Social Sciences

Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical Law

Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Pediatric Oral Surgery and Implantology

Department of Dentistry

Department of Radiology and Radiation Medicine

Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Medical Psychology

Department of Fundamentals of Pediatrics No.2

Department of Internal Medicine No. 2, Clinical Immunology and Allergology

Department of Biological Chemistry

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology No. 2

Department of Propedeutic Pediatrics No. 1

Department of Propedeutics of Internal Medicine No. 2 and Nursing Care

Department of Fundamentals of Internal Medicine N1, Fundamentals of Bioethics and Biosafety

Department of Paediatrics No. 2

Department of Pediatrics No. 1 with Neonatology

Department of Physiological Pathology

Department of Pathological Anatomy

Department of Ophthalmology

Department of Otorhinolaryngology

Department of Prosthetic Dentistry

Department of Oncology

Department of Neurosurgery

Department of neurology №2

Department of Neurology

Department of Language Training for Foreign Citizens

Department of Medical and Bioorganic Chemistry

Department of Medical and Biological Physics and medical Information Science

Department of Medical Genetics

Department of Medical Biology

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology and Intensive Care

Department of Internal Medicine No. 1

Department of Human Anatomy

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology No. 1

Department of Foreign Languages

Department of Infectious Diseases

Department of Disaster Medicine and Military Medicine

Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology named by D.P. Grynyov

Department of the Latin Language and Medical Terminology

Department of Clinical Pharmacology

Clinical laboratory diagnostics

Department of Operating Surgery and Topographic Anatomy

Department of General Surgery No. 2

Department of General Surgery No. 1

Department of General Practice – Family Medicine

Department of Epidemiology

Department of emergency and urgent health care, orthopedics and traumatology

Department of Paediatric Surgery and Paediatric Anaesthesiology

Department of children's infectious diseases

Department of Dermatology, Venereology and AIDS

Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Medical Cosmetology

The Department of Public Health and Healthcare Management

Department of Histology, Cytology and Embryology

Department of Hygiene and Ecology No. 2

Department of Hygiene and Ecology No. 1

Department of Internal Medicine No. 3

Department of Internal and Occupational Diseases

Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Pediatric Gynecology

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PREPARATORY COURSE FOR FOREIGNERS AND MEMBERS WITHOUT CITIZENSHIP

The training lasts 1 year.

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The Preparatory Department of KhNMU is one of the best in Kharkiv. The training is performed on the basis of the University departments and at its laboratories. This training is given in the Russian language and general subjects, including physics, chemistry and biology, with the purpose of the subsequent study of these students at higher educational establishments of the medical-biological type. During their training at the Preparatory Department of KhNMU its students make the acquaintance of professors and teachers of the University. On finishing the Preparatory Department its students are issued Certificates approved by the

Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science.

LIST OF THE SPECIALTIES FOR ADMISSION IN STUDIES AT THE BACHELOR PROGRAM

FIELD OF STUDY

22 HEALTH PRESERVATION

221 «Dentistry»

222 «Medicine»

223 «Nursing»

224 «Technologies of medical diagnostics and treatment»

227 «Physical therapy, ergotherapy»

228 «Pediatrics»

• Dentistry

• Medicine

• Nursing

• Laboratory diagnostics

• Physical therapy, ergotherapy

231 «Social work»

• Social work

LIST OF THE SPECIALTIES FOR ADMISSION IN STUDIES AT THE MASTER PROGRAM

FIELD OF STUDY

22 HEALTH PRESERVATION

011 «Educational, pedagogical sciences»

• Pedagogy of high school

221 «Dentistry»

222 «Medicine»

223 «Nursing»

224 «Technologies of medical diagnostics and treatment»

227 «Physical therapy, ergotherapy»

228 «Pediatrics»

• Dentistry

• Medicine

• Nursing

• Laboratory diagnostics

• Physical therapy, ergotherapy

• Pediatrics

281 «Public Management and Administration»

• Healthcare management

LIST OF THE SPECIALTIES FOR ADMISSION IN STUDIES AT THE DOCTOR OF MEDICINE PROGRAM

FIELD OF STUDY

22 HEALTH PRESERVATION

221 «Dentistry»

222 «Medicine»

• Dentistry

• Obstetrics and gynecology

• Internal Diseases

• Surgery

• Neurosurgery

• Urology

• Oncology

• Cardiology

• Infectious diseases

• Nervous diseases

• Psychiatry

• Ophthalmology

• Otorhinolaryngology

• Skin and venereal diseases

• Traumatology and orthopedics

• Forensic Medicine

• Phthysiology

• Pulmonology

• Anesthesiology and intensive care

• Medical biochemistry

• Nephrology

• Hygiene and occupational pathology

• Epidemiology

• Social medicine

• Normal anatomy

• Pathological anatomy

• Normal physiology

• Pathological physiology

• Pharmacology

• Histology, cytology and embryology,

• Biophysics

• (medical sciences)

• Microbiology (medical sciences)

• Genetics (medical sciences)

224 «Technologies of medical diagnostics and treatment»

• Radiation diagnostics and radiotherapy

• Clinical laboratory diagnostics

228 «Pediatrics»

• Pediatrics

• Children's surgery

POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION

Qualified graduates of higher medical educational insti¬tutions who wish to continue their postgraduate training (in the Russian language) are given the right to undergo:

• a clinical postgraduate course (residency) lasting 2-4 years;

• a postgraduate course with an opportunity to defend a thesis competing for a scientific degree, the term of training is 3 years.

KhNMU has created all conditions for improving the professional level in the specialities acquired. The University departments have modern diagnostic and medical equipment and laboratories for researches. The most popular specialities include Surgery, Ophthalmology, Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Urology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, etc.

The work of a clinical postgraduate (resident) is carried on in compliance with the individual plan, which is devised and approved under the guidance of the head of a department or its professor, who is responsible for training of this resident, not later than one month after his/her enrolment. The plan envisages study of the basic speciality, a number of related clinical subjects, medical statistics, clinical biochemistry and pharmacology, medical genetics, etc.

Each specialist, who has finished his/her clinical postgraduate course, is awarded a Certificate of Specialized Training in Medicine (Residency) according to international standards and a Transcript to the above Certificate with indication of the numbers of hours in the studied subjects and grades for them. This Certificate gives the right to carry out all works, which are related to the speciality acquired.

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