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Departament of Medicine of Catastrophes

Teaching staff:

History Data

The Department was organized in 1968 on the basis of the reorganized department of military medical training. In the beginning, it was a course of medical service of civil protection (CMSCP). The first head of the course during 1968 - 1970 was Assistant Professor Mykola D. Davygora. From 1970 to 1971, the duties of the head of the Department were fulfilled by Assistant Professor Vasyl G. Hodzitsky. In 1971, the course in CMSCP was reorganized into the department. Since 1971 to 1986, the head of the Department was senior research officer M.P. Kotliarevsky. From 1986 to 1989, the Department was headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, V.G. Mashkovsky, and from 1989 to 1996 – Assistant Professor M.V. Natsiuk. In 1990, according to the resolution of the government, the Department CMSCP was reorganized into the Department of Medicine of Catastrophes. Since 1996, the faculty has been headed by Professor Н.Н. Roshchyn, and the Department was given a status of clinical and, since 1998, the Department became a basic profile department among high schools of postgraduate education.

Teaching and Methodological Work:

At the Department of Medicine of Catastrophes, according to the curriculum “Urgent medical service at states of emergency” the training preparation is given to:

·           Administrative board of bodies and establishments of public health services (156 study hours);

·           Experts of personnel of brigades of constant readiness of the first and second-order formations of the State Public Service of Medicine of Catastrophes (156 study hours);

·           Doctors of medical profile (surgical and therapeutic), (156 study hours);

·           Doctors of adjacent departments (6 or 12 study hours).

Also the curriculum for surgical and therapeutic doctors-interns (72 study hours) is developed.

Practical and seminar lessons are conducted in educational classes with the use of mannequins, and also at the basic clinics of the Department: the Clinic of Polytrauma and the Clinic of Toxicology of the Kyiv City Emergency Clinical Hospital.

Programs are developed according to the Technique of competent programmed development based on studying the international, national and personal experience on questions of the organization and granting urgent medical service to victims at states of emergency.

Scientific Research Activities:

The main directions of scientific work of the Department:

1.       Improvement of forms and methods of granting urgent medical aid to injured during emergency states.

2.       Urgent medical aid to injured in extreme situations at a pre-hospital stage.

3.       Surgery of damages.

4.       Urgent medical aid to an injured with a polytrauma.

5.       Urgent medical aid to an injured after poisoning with strong poisonous substances.

The work is carried out together with the Ukrainian scientific - practical center of emergency medical service and medicine of Catastrophes on the basis of the Kyiv City Clinical Emergency Hospital.

Clinical work:

In daily practice, teachers of the Department carry on medical-advisory work in basic medical establishment – the Kyiv City Clinical Emergency Hospital, at the departments of polytrauma and toxicology, in case of occurrence of emergency states - as a part of mobile hospital of the Ministry of Emergency States of Ukraine in a zone of an extreme situation.

International activities:

The Department fruitfully cooperates with foreign educational institutions and organizations. Now the faculty cooperates with:

• Medical faculty of the University of State Massachusetts (USA);
• Medical faculty of the University of Boston (USA);
• The American international union of public health services (American International Health Alliance, the USA).

The main purpose of this cooperation is the achievement of the international standards of scientific-educational activity. Teachers of the Department worked on probation on questions of education in the field of urgent medical service and medicine of catastrophes at the universities and medical centers of the United States of America.

Since 1995, the employees of the Department took part in the organization of work of the Kyiv training center of emergency, which was created with the assistance of the American international union of public health services (АIUPHS), on the basis of which the students of the Department have an opportunity to practice their skills.

In 1997-2002, the employees of the Department took part in the international project MGATE RER 9-049 “Medical education and the program of inter-regional coordination of readiness for nuclear failures”, its purpose was to improve the readiness of medical workers-students of the program on raising and solving the tasks of granting urgent help at radiation failures.

In 1998, the employees of the Department took part in carrying out a training course for students from the Russian Federation in Moscow on the basis of the education center of urgent medical service of the Federal department of medical, biological and extreme problems of the Russian Federation, and in 1999 - in Budapest, Hungary. For students from the countries of the Eastern Europe and the CIS, a training course was conducted on the basis of the Department in 2000.

Staff membersof the Department took a direct part in liquidating medical aftereffects of catastrophic earthquakes which lately have occurred in such contries as: Republic of Turkey, Republic of India, Islamik Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Address of the department:

3, Bratyslavskaya str., Kyiv
tel.: 518-57-08, 518-76-26, 518-55-96