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Department of Therapy and Rheumatology

Teaching Staff:

History Data:

The Department was founded in January 1980, by the Resolution of the Cabinet Ministers of Ukraine for advanced training of doctors-therapeutics of Kyivska oblast. The first name of this Department was the Department of Therapy No.3. In January 1990, the Department of Therapy was renamed the Department of Therapy and Rheumatology.

D.D.Drozdov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, was the first head of the Department of Therapy and Rheumatology. Since January 1990, V.M. Kovalenko, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the AMS of Ukraine, Merited Worker of Sciences and Technology of Ukraine, was appointed as the head of the Department of Therapy and Rheumatology.

From the moment of its foundation, the Department of Therapy has the Clinical Hospital No.6 as its academic basis. And since 1994, the Clinical Hospital No.7 of Sviatoshyansky region is its academic basis too. There are two big lecture halls for 50 and 60 places, 5 academic rooms and a laboratory at the Department.

The Department provides courses of specialization in Rheumatology, pre-certification courses of Therapy and Rheumatology, special courses in some topics of Therapy and Rheumatology, training courses for internships on major Internal diseases.

The Department provided advanced training guest-courses in different cities, including Tashkent, Buhara, Andizhjan, Samarkand, Daugavpils, Sevastopol, Chernigiv, Lutsk, Zhytomyr and others. More than 5,000 doctors were trained and improved their professional skills at the Department of Therapy and Rheumatology.

Teachers of the Department worked out special academic plans, curricula and computer test programs for specialization in Rheumatology, pre-certification courses of Therapy and Rheumatology and topical advanced courses for therapists. The teachers of the Department took part also in development of programs, curricula and computer tests for therapists and interns in therapy.

The head of Department, Professor V.M. Kovalenko and Professor N.M. Shuba there have published textbooks “Rheumatology”, “Internal Diseases” for doctors and intern-students, methodological recommendations on questions of diagnostics and treatment of internal diseases, 22 monographs, 11 reference books. The studying process at the Department has been computerized and new pharmacotherapeutical, clinical-laboratory and instrumental technology were introduced.

Teaching and Methodological Work:

The following courses are conducted at the Department:

Specialization: specialization course in Rheumatology;

Pre-certification: pre-certification course in Rheumatology;

Thematic specialization: on Rheumatology for therapists.

Internship: “Internal diseases”.

Preparation of clinical residents and aspirants is conducted.

Scientific Research Activities:

Major directions of scientific activity of the Department are:

- Modification of treatment of rheumatologycal diseases with autoimmune and immuno-complex mechanisms of development.

- Development of methods of diagnostics and treatment of osteoporosis of patients with rheumatologycal disease.

- Substantiation and introduction system enzymotherapy in complex treatment programs with rheumatologycal patients.

- Assessments of clinical effectiveness of new antirheumatic drugs.

The results of scientific research have been reported on the 41 international conferences, 123 Ukrainian congresses, and 181 regional conferences. Since 1980 there have been published 24 monographs, 27 methodological recommendations and above 600 scientific works.

Since the period of foundation of the Department, 11 Doctoral and 34 Candidate’s theses were defended.

The teachers of the Department took active part in organization of the National Congress of Rheumatologists of Ukraine, schools of Rheumatologists.

Clinical work:

The City Clinical Hospital No. 6 and the City Clinical Hospital No. 7 are the clinical base of the Department. Since 1980, more than 82 thousand patients at the clinical base of the Department have been treated. The teaching staff members rendered their consultative work in and out of clinical bases for more than 5,000 of patients; they delivered 638 sanitary aviation circuits.

The Department is the basis of the Association of Rheumatologists and Association of systemic enzymotherapy. The school of Rheumatologists is conducted annually for specialists-rheumatologists of Ukraine. The “Arthrological club” for patients with musculoskeletal system diseases was established. Professor V.N. Kovalenko is the President of the Association of Rheumatologists of Ukraine, the Member of European and World Antirheumatic League, Deputy Head of the Board of Administration of scientific societies of cardiologists and therapeutists, the Member of Editorial Board of scientific journals “Ukrainian Cardiological Journal”, “Ukrainian Medical Journal”, “Pharmaceutical Journal”, the Head of Editorial Board of scientific journal “Ukrainian Rheumatologycal Journal”. Professor O.P. Bortkevich is the Leading Rheumatologist of the Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine.

International activities:

The Department has permanent contacts with the Association of Rheumatologists of Great Britain, Scientific and Research Institutes of Rheumatology of Russia and Poland.

Address:

Department of Therapy and Rheumatology
6-A, Strazhesko str., Kyiv
tel.: (044) 408-62-24