Department of Philosophy

  Teaching Staff:

Head of the department:	Professor Valentyn L. Кulinichenko, Doctor of Philosophical Science
Teaching Staff Members:	Professors: Mykola I. Myhalchenko, Olena G.Karagodina Assistant Professors: Svitlana V. Pustovit; Olena Yu. Merezhynska Senior Lecturer: Sergiy M. Hlyz’ Assistant: Natalia Kovalenko

History Data:

Postgraduate training of physicians and pharmaceutists includes outlook developing, deontological and theoretical parts, which were taught at the Philosophy Department throughout the entire history of KMAPGE. The department was the only form of humanitarian teaching and education of physicians, postgraduates, interns for many years in KMAPE.

In the pre-war period and during the first year after the war, the lectures and seminars on this theme were held by Professors and Assistant Professors from Kyiv leading educational institutions (for example, by Assistant Professor Vievskyy, Professor S.S. Gurvich).

The Department of Marxism-Leninism was founded in 1948. There were 3 lecturers at the Department headed by A.M. Okun (M.A. Ginzburg began working there since 1946). The Department was headed by Assistant Professor V.U. Bryk from 1952.

In the second part of the 1960-ties, the Department was transformed into the course of philosophical problems in medicine and biology headed by Assistant Professor, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, O.O. Davydenko (since 1968).

Since March 1988, the course has been headed by Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Assistant Professor V.L. Kulinichenko (physician by education), who became the head of the newly-made Department of Marxism-Leninism (since 1993 – the course in philosophy). During different periods of its existence, there had been working Assistant Professor V.L. Kulinichenko, Professor M.I. Myhalchenko, Assistant Professor B.T. Tytarenko, senior lecturers of the Department O.Yu. Merezhynska, A.M. Hirnyk, N.V. Kovalenko. In March 1999, the Department of Humanitarian Disciplines, comprising the philosophy course and the Department of Foreign Languages, was founded in the Academy. It was headed by Assistant Professor V.L.Kulinichenko.

In 2OO5 the Department of Philosophy was founded, headed by Professor V.L. Kulinichenko. Professor V.L. Kulinichenko is the Head of the Ethical Committee of NMAPE.

Throughout its history, the Department (the course) of Philosophy was based in different buildings of the Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians, the Scientific Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics. Now the Department is situated on the 8th floor of the teaching-laboratory building of KMAPGE. There are teaching-methodological classrooms, rooms, auditoriums for teaching staff members. The lectures are as well held in all KMAPE teaching-laboratory buildings.

Teaching and Methodological Work:

The following courses are conducted at the Department:

Pre-certification and certification: “Fundamentals of the constitutional law”; “History of Ukrainian nation and culture. Past, present and the strategies of the future”; “Deontological and humanitarian aspects of physician’s activity”; “Methodology and logic of physician’s clinical activity”; ”Basic trends of the modern psychosomatic medicine “.

Topical Advanced Training: “Deontological and humanitarian aspects of physician’s activity”; “Methodology and logic of physician’s clinical activity”; ”Basic trends of the modern psychosomatic medicine”; “Spiritual aspects of practical physician’s activity”.

Internship: “Methodology and logic of physician’s clinical activity”; ”Basic trends of the modern psychosomatic medicine”; “History of Ukrainian nation and culture. Past, present and the strategies of the future”.

Post-graduates: “Philosophical anthropology and medicine”; “Bioethics as modern medical ethics”; “Methodology and logic of the scientific researches”; “Ethical examination of the biological and medical researches”; “ Ethics of the biological and medical researches”.

Master’s course: “ Philosophical aspects of medicine”; ”Basic trends of the modern psychosomatic medicine”; “History of Ukrainian nation and culture. Past, present and the strategies of the future”.

Clinical residency: “Social-cultural and ethical-deontological aspects of physician’s clinical activity”; ”Basic trends of the modern psychosomatic medicine”;; “History of Ukrainian nation and culture. Past, present and the strategies of the future”.

Training courses on a self-financing basis and training of post-graduates are possible.

Scientific Research Activities:

The Department’s scientific activities are aimed at philosophical issues of medicine and biology realized in great number of scientific publications and reports at symposiums and conferences. 10 monographs were published during last 5 years by the members of the scientific staff.

Goch V.P., Kulinichenko V.L. The history of mentality and causality.- Kiev, 2005

Goch V.P., Kulinichenko V.L. Life and causality: the methodology of interaction and cognition.-Kiev;2004

Cheshko V.F., Kulinichenko V.L. Science, ethics, politics: sociocultural aspects of modern genetics. – Kiev, 2004

Ethic committees: present and future ( editors: Veckovshinina S.V. Kulinichenko V.L.) – Kiev, 2004

The political system of Ukraine: reality, models, transformations.- Kiev, 2003 / N.I.Mikhalche nko/

Institualization of metamorphoses as precondition for effective use of regional resource potential. – Kiev, 2003 / N.I. Mikhalchenko/

Haiduk V.,Kucherenko T., Mikhalchenko N. Ukraine in the regional measurement: problems and perspectives. Donetsk, 2002

Ethic committees: formation, structure, functions / editors: : Veckovshinina S.V. Kulinichenko V.L.) – Kiev, 2002

: Veckovshinina S.V. Kulinichenko V.L. Bioethics: principles and foundation: philosophical and methodological analysis.-Kiev, 2002

Kulinichenko V.L. Modern medicine: transformation of theory and practice paradigms / Philosophical and methodological analysis /.-Kiev,2001

Actual problems of Ukraine’s development, social life, health, social-psychological particularities of political processes in Ukraine, bioethical and valeological issues are investigated at the Department. A great attention is paid to the development of the system of postgraduate medical education.

International activities:

Over the last 10 years, some foreign professors have lectured at the Department:

- Professor P. Modesto (Germany) - the lectures on the world and Christian history;

- Dr Ya. Holander (Germany) – the lectures on psychology;

- Dr. J. Hodges (The United Kingdom) – the lectures on bioethics;

- G. Lower (USA) – the lectures on Christian and scientific founding on bioethics

Barbara and John Wilkee /USA/ - the lectures on ethical aspects of reproductive technologies

Ukrainian professors M.I. Myhalchenko and V.L. Kulinichenko delivered lectures in Germany, Check Republic, Poland, Canada, etc.

In 2005 staff members took part in the International conferences:

1. International conference “Biomedicine within the limits of human existence, 8 -13 April 2005 Doorn, Netherlands /Pustovit S.V. /

2. International bioethics conference “Responsible realization of the fundamental and clinical research”, 3-4 June, Warsaw, Poland /Pustovit S./

3. International conference “ The problem of the scientific and alternative medicine interaction” 16, September, Tartu ,Estonia / Karahodina E.H./

4. International conference “ The development of bioethics in Europe and Lithuania”,23 – 24 September 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania /Pustovit S.V./

5. International conference “ Actual models of education and health: the ways of spiritual development of human being and society”, 26 -28 May 2005, Kiev / Kulinichenko V.L./

6. International conference “ Valeology: present situation , directions and perspectives” 8 - 10 April, Kharkiv /Kulinichenko V.L./

7. International conference “ The cause aspects of live systems development”, 23 -25, September, Sevastopol /Kulinichenko V.L./

8. International conference “ Translation as a factor of the cultural interaction in the format of Jan Amos Komensky’s conception”.

9. International conference “ Philosophy of education in the structure of current world dynamics”, 3-4 May, Kyiv, / M.I. Myhalchenko/.

International seminars:

1. Regional meetings of experts with bioethics teaching, Moscow, Russian Federation, 19-20 Jan. 2005 /V.L. Kulinichenko, S.V. Pustovit/

2. Regional consultation in bioethics, 12 Jan. 2005, , Moscow, Russian Federation, /V.L. Kulinichenko, S.V. Pustovit/

3. Regional consultation concerning the development of collaboration in the sphere of ethics and bioethics, 10-11 March, Minsk, Belarus Repablic,/V.L. Kulinichenko/

The Department of Philosophy was a co-organizer (together with KMAPE and the Ukrainian Association on Bioethics):

1. First and Second Ukrainian-British Symposia on Bioethics (September, 2000 and March, 2002);

2. International seminar “ Ethics Committees as mechanisms of social control in the sphere of public health and environmental protection activities” /KMPE, Kyiv, 8-9 April 2005/

3. International symposium on bioethics “ Global bioethics: current measurements, problems, solutions “ /KMPE, Kyiv, April, 2004/

4. International scientific conference : Ethics: Updated moduses of actualization” /KMPE, Kyiv, 20 - 21 April 2005/

5. International seminar “Developing standards of ethic expertise as a way to a responsible practice in biomedical investigation: experience of Central and East Europe” /Kyiv, 23 – 24 March 2006/

6. International symposium on bioethics “Developing bioethics ideas in European context” /KMPE, Kyiv, 10 – 12 May 2006/ Materials of symposia and seminars are available in the Department library.

Adress:

9, Dorogozhytska Str., Kyiv,
Department of Philosophy
P.L. Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education,
Ukraine, 04112 (the 8th floor)
Tel.: (38044) 205-49-87