P.L.SHUPIK NATIONAL MEDICAL ACADEMY OF POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION

Department of Neurology No. 2





Teaching Staff:

Head of the department:

Professor Olena V. Tkachenko, Doctor of Medical Sciences

Teaching Staff Members:

Assistant Professors: Candidate of  Medical Sciences;  Leonid V. Korzhenevsky, Candidate of Medical Sciences; Olga V. Novikova, Candidate of  Medical Sciences; Vasyl V. Оrzheshkovsky, Candidate of Medical Sciences;
Assistants:  Vitalina H. Kolotusha, Candidate of  Medical Sciences; Ludmila M. Bashkirova, Candidate of  Medical Sciences; Roman A. Stetsyuk, Candidate of  Medical Sciences; Inna O. Tsyokha

History Data:

The Department was founded in 1962. The founder of the Department was Professor Petro Perfilov. Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor; A. Rudenko was the head of the department since 1983 to 2006.  A course of children’s neurology  was in structure of the department since 1996 to 1999. Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Olena V. Tkachenko  was elected the head of the neurological Department since 2006.

Nowadays the neurological department of the Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 12 is the clinical base of  the Department of Neurology. For holding an educational process there are 3 lecture rooms, 6 rooms for holding practical classes and its own scientific laboratory equipped with modern instrumentation for performance of scientific research.

18 theses for the degree of a Candidate of Medical Sciences and 6 theses for the degree of a Doctor of Medical Sciences have been defended during the existence of the Department. More than 30 doctors-neurologists have taken a residency course. About 6, 000 doctors-neurologists have studied and more than 400 doctors have taken an intern course during the existence of the Department.

The Departmen of Neurology No. 2 of the P.L.Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education is the basic one in specialties: “Neurology” and “Children’s neurology”.

Teaching and Methodological Work:

The following training courses are held at the Department:

Pre-certification: pre-certification courses in neurology;

Topical Advanced Training: “Actual questions of neurology”; “Nervous system damage due to internal pathology”.

Internship: “Neurology”.

Clinical residencies and post-graduate education: Training of clinical residents and postgraduate students is provided.

Scientific Research Activities:

Scientific research direction of the Department:

-           clinical and diagnostical features of cerebrovascular pathology;

-           clinical and diagnostical features of pathology of peripheral nervous system;

-           modern approaches to the study of problems of somatoneurology.

The planned scientific theme “Clinical picture and diagnosis of paroxysmal conditions in diseases of nervous system is executed. Also the theses for the degree of a Candidate of Medical Sciences and the theses for the degree of a Doctor of Medical Sciences in the direction of clinical and diagnostic features and medical tactics in cerebrovascular pathology, cranial-cerebral traumas, consequences of cranial-cerebral traumas, somatoneurological diseases, lesions of peripheral nervous system.

Clinical work:

A significant medical and advisory work is performed at the department.

The Assistants, post-graduate students and doctors who take the residency course treat the patients of base departments, and provide consultations for the patients of other clinical departments.

Doctors who take the residency course and post-graduate students are doctors on duty at hospitals.

The Head of the department and the Assistant Professors make medical rounds, clinical analyses, give consultations for patients of base departments and if necessary, other clinical departments.

The teaching staff members give consultations for patients who are directed from other medical establishments of Kyiv, regions of Ukraine, and the Republic of Crimea.

The specialists of the department are on duty for rendering emergency medical care on calls of regional centers of Ukraine.

Scientific-practical conferences are held by Professors and Associate-Professors of the Department.

International activities:

The teaching staff members of the Department take part in international congresses, symposia.

Training of clinical residents and postgraduate students from foreign country is provided.

Address:

4-a, Pidvysotsky str.,
01103, Kyiv-103,
tel.: (044) 528-33-48; 528-37-21