Bukovinian State Medical University

The Bukovinian State Medical University (Ukrainian: Буковинський державний медичний університет) is a public medical university of IV level of accreditation in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. It offers over 90 degree programs and has 49 departments in 6 undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate faculties. BSMU is a member of the European University Association and is a signatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum.

The university was established in 1944, on the basis of Kyiv State Medical Institute, as Chernivtsi State Medical Institute. It was reorganized into its current form in 2005. In addition to the main campus in Chernivtsi, the university operates three preparatory departments in Chernivtsi, Novoselytsia and Vashkivtsi and a recreational complex in Repuzhyntsi.

History

In October 1944 the Second Kyiv State Medical Institute was transferred for further work to the city of Chernivtsi. Without receiving a new name, the capital institute relocated to Chernivtsi continued to operate for a month and a half as the 2nd Kyiv State Medical Institute in Chernivtsi. Only at the end of November 1944 the 2nd Kyiv State Medical Institute was given the name "Chernivtsi State Medical Institute".

Bukovinian State Medical University (BGMU) was created by reorganization of the Bukovinian State Medical Academy on the basis of the Order of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from 02.03.2005 46-p and Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine from 15.03.2005 110 "About reorganization of the Bukovinian State Medical Academy.

Academy (BGMA) was created according to the Decree of KMU from 04.04.1997 312 on the base of Chernivtsi State Medical Institute (CMI) which was founded in 1944 and functioned till April 1997. Chernivtsi State Medical Institute was founded on 20 October 1944 based on 2nd Kyiv Medical Institute after its redeployment to Chernivtsi city.

In 2014 the Bukovinian State Medical University celebrated its 70th anniversary, and in 2011 the university celebrated its 80th anniversary as a higher educational institution.

Rectors

The history of Bukovina is closely connected with the names of the rectors of the medical institution, famous professors - D. S. Lovlia (1945-1951), M. B. Mankovsky (1951-1954), M. M. Kovalev (1954-1963), O. D. Yuhimets (1963-1974), V. K. Patratij (1974-1993), V. P. Pishak (1993-2010), T. M. Boychuk (from 2010 to 2020) In 2021, the planned rector election did not take place. O. A. Andriets was acting as rector in 2021–2023.

University authority

• Acting Rector – Gerush Igor Vasiliovych, Candidate of Medical Science, Associate Professor
• Vice-rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work - Khodorovskyi Volodymyr Mykhailovych, Associate Professor
• Vice-rector for Scientific-Pedagogical and Therapeutic Activity - Ilashchuk Tetiana Oleksandrivna, Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor
• Vice-rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work and Education - Zoryi Nina Ivanivna, Candidate of Philosophical Science, associate professor
• Vice-Rector on Scientific and Pedagogical Work and International Relations Grytsyuk Marjana Ivanivna , M.D., Doctor of medical sciences, Professor
• Educational and Research Institute of Postgraduate Education Director, MD, Associate Professor Bambulyak Andriy Vasyliovych

Teaching staff

The personnel potential of the university is unique, it is staffed today by professionals in their field, who have exceptional teaching skills: 115 doctors of medical sciences and 429 candidates of medical sciences, among them 1 member-correspondent of Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, 2 academicians of Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, 6 academicians of Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences, 9 honored workers of Ukraine, 2 honored workers of national education and higher school of Ukraine, 85 professors, 269 associate professors. 52 employees of clinical chairs of BSMU are provincial freelance specialists and consultants of DOH of Chernivtsi Regional State Administration.

Campuses and buildings

The university has 15 educational buildings, a modern library, an ultra-modern simulation centre, university dental centre, educational-productive chemist's, sport complex, the Palace of culture and rest "Academichny": a theatre, summer camp "Zdorovya". Clinical departments are located on the bases of 33 medical-preventive and pharmaceutical establishments of Chernivtsi.

Education of foreign citizens

Today the university has 5181 students including 1727 foreign citizens from 32 countries. The training of foreign citizens has been carried out since 1994, and since 2004 the training of foreign students in English was started. The number of foreign students from India, Somalia, Nigeria, Ghana, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Bulgaria, USA and other countries studying at Bukovinian State Medical University increases year by year.

Divisions

The university consists of:

Teaching, educational and support units:

• - Educational department with information and analytical sector;
• - Educational and methodological office;
• - Students' office;
• - Department of practical training;
• - Department of international relations;
• - Editorial and publishing department;

- Historical and medical museum of the university.

Scientific divisions:

• - Scientific and medical department [Archived 5 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine]; with the sector of innovational development;
• - Department of doctoral studies, postgraduate studies, master's studies and clinical residency;
• - Department of metrological and technical support;
• - Research laboratories (22);

- Vivarium.

Administrative and economic units:

• - Rector's office;
• - Personnel department;
• - Planning and economic department;
• - Accounting department;
• - Chancellery;
• - Archive;
• - Civil defense headquarters;
• - Department for occupational safety and health;
• - Legal service;
• - Economic division with departments of chief power engineer, chief mechanic, material and technical supply, utility department;
• - Educational buildings (13);

- Hostels (5).

Other subdivisions of the University:

- Palace of Culture and Recreation "Academichnyi";

- Recreation center in Repuzhyntsi village, Zastavna district, Chernivtsi region.

Some departments have the following subdivisions:

- Medical and Psychological Center [Archived April 8, 2022 in the Wayback Machine] (at the S. M. Savenko Department of Nervous Diseases, Psychiatry and Medical Psychology);

- Sports club (at the Department of Disaster Medicine, Military Medicine with a course of physical education and health);

- Educational and methodical center of newborn resuscitation and modern perinatal technologies (at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology).

Educational-recreational complex in the village of Repuzhyntsi, Zastavna District

On the Bank of the Dniester River near the village of Repuzhintsy, Zastavnivsky district, Chernivtsi region (70 km from the city of Chernivtsi), there is a sports and recreation camp for students and university staff for 250 vacationers. The health camp was founded in 1958 on the initiative of the then head of the Department of Physical Education Konstantin Vladimirovich Mironov. For the first time, the Camp accepted students and employees of the then Chernivtsi Medical Institute on vacation in 1958. Vacationers were placed only in tents provided by the military unit, with which the Medical Institute maintained close patronage relations. Only the dining room was located in a wooden house.

In the early 60s, at the initiative of the rector of the Institute A. D. Yukhimets, brick and wooden cottages, pavilions for board games, a summer theater, and sports grounds were built for vacationers of various types. In the 60s, the famous satirist people's artist of the USSR Arkady Raikin liked to relax in the institute's camp.

Currently, the Recreation Center "Zdorovye"/»Health», on the Dniester River, with restored, overhauled, equipped with modern furniture cottages hospitably receive visitors — guests, students and employees of the university.

Traditionally, at the Recreation Center "Zdorovye"/»Health», the medical and psychological center of Bukovinian State Medical University conducts psychological intensive courses that invite everyone. The intensive courses feature the best Ukrainian and foreign trainers, various areas of psychotherapy, trainings, psychological games, master classes. The place gives a proven opportunity to find friends, colleagues and partners, interesting and fun leisure time.

Organization of the educational process

The main goal of educational and methodical work at the university is to create conditions that contribute to improving the efficiency and quality of the educational process. Academic and methodological work is managed by the university's educational department. Methodological work at the university is a set of measures aimed at:- providing the educational process with educational and methodological documentation;- improving the pedagogical skills of teachers, improving classroom and independent work of students;- improvement of all forms, types and methods of educational work at the university, taking into account the state and prospects for the development of medical organizations and institutions for which the university trains specialists.

Disciplines, courses at the university are taught in accordance with the working curricula of the disciplines. The content of work programs meets the requirements of educational and professional programs and standard training programs approved by the Central Methodological Commission for Higher Medical Education of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. The formed programs provide a systematic approach, in the process of which each discipline is studied not as an independent and independent one, but as part of a system aimed at training a specialist of a certain profile. End-to-end programs for mastering practical skills in all disciplines have been introduced into the educational process. The system of training specialists at the university meets the requirements of the current branch standards of Higher Education. Taking into account the professional and active principle of organizing training at the university, the availability, creation and replication of textbooks, guidelines and textbooks plays an important role. The departments have prepared and published guidelines for practical classes and independent training of students with algorithms for consistent mastery of practical skills, knowledge, skills, training and teaching aids. Training at Bukovinian State Medical University is carried out according to a credit-modular system, in accordance with the requirements of the Bologna Process. The credit-modular system for assessing students ' knowledge and skills has been applied for 6 years. The university has a mandatory system for monitoring the preparation of students and the quality of training (certification with test primary and exit levels, rating control). It includes: daily (test, oral, written, computer) control of the preparation of students of the academic group in each lesson (100%); boundary control of the assimilation of individual sections of the program; certification of students every month from the beginning of each semester with the determination of the average (rating) grade in each discipline; final test (exam) of preparation control. A mandatory element of training in clinical departments and conducting exams at them is the assessment of mastering practical skills and solving situational problems, which is regarded as an algorithm of a doctor's activity for a specific, specific situation and a specific sick person. The university departments have compiled software packages, test sets and questions of varying complexity that are used at different stages of monitoring student training, which are placed on the Moodle Distance Learning Server for ease of study.

Scientific activity

Scientific publications

Bukovina medical bulletin

Problematics-promotion of achievements of medical science in Ukraine in the fields of Fundamental Sciences, internal, pediatric and surgical diseases, obstetrics and gynecology, healthcare organization.Address in scientific periodicals of Ukraine

• Scientific schools
• Therapeutic school
• Pediatric school
• Surgical school
• Pharmaceutical school
• Outstanding scientists of the university

Boris Radzikhovsky-ophthalmologist, professor at the Chernivtsi Medical Institute since 1945.

Roman Lev-Professor, Head of the Department of hospital surgery.

Sergey Savenko-neurologist, university professor since 1945

Medical and preventive activity

All practicals are held in classrooms and labs of the university, in therapeutic-prophylactic establishments and in sanitary-epidemiological stations of the town and region. Powerful potential of the professional staff of clinical departments includes 42 Professors, 48 Doctors of Medical Science, 187 Associate Professors (with academic status) and 321 Candidates of Medical Science. 166 workers of the staff have higher medical qualifying degree, 54 of them have obtained I category, 48 – II category. 32 workers of the clinical departments of BSMU are non-staff specialists and work as consulting physicians of Chernivtsi Regional Executive Board. Clinical departments of BSMU are located in 27 clinical centers: 17 therapeutic establishments of a regional subordinate and 10 – of a municipal one. According to their schedules, professors and associate professors make clinical ward rounds, consulting visits at polyclinics, examinations of patients in the inpatient departments of therapeutic-prophylactic establishments. A great deal of methodological organizing work is carried out: visit of therapeutic preventive establishments, review of the patients' histories, participation in the boards of experts and qualifying committee, conference conducting etc. Considerable therapeutic-prophylactic work is held by teachers during summer practice. Various and manifold therapeutic consulting activity in the system of Bukovina practical health service is carried out by the assistants of clinical departments. Except consultations this activity includes arrangement of all qualifying means for physicians of practical health service in the following spheres – subject mastering, reevaluating courses, lectures on actual topics, arrangement and conducting of science-practical conferences, working out of methodological recommendations, and expert evaluation of patients' management. The important part in cooperation of the university clinical workers and physicians of practical health service is devoted to consulting and science-methodological work in therapeutic-prophylactic establishments of health service.

More than 30 establishments are used for students' medical practical work. Among them there are military hospital A1028, SES of Lviv railway, Chernivtsi regional clinical hospital, Chernivtsi regional children's clinical hospital N1, Chernivtsi regional children's clinical hospital N2, Emergency Rescue Clinical Municipal Hospital, Regional children's clinical hospital, Maternity Home N1 and N2 of Chernivtsi. Some students have their practical training in the places of their residence.

International activity

The department of international contacts, created on October 29, 2003, by the Rector's order on the basis of corresponding documents of the Ministry of Public Health Service, is involved in international contacts. The work of international department is managed by the pro-rector on scientific work and international contacts Ivashchuk Aleksander Ivanovych. The activity of the university is directed to the development, extension and strengthening of international contacts and BSMU authority in the world cooperation. International cooperation constantly improves. Bukovinian State Medical University collaborates with: Klagenfurt Hospital (Austria), Belarusian State Medical University (Minsk), Grodno State Medical University, Vitebsk State Medical University (Belarus), Karlovy University, Prague (Czech Republic), the University of Montpellier (France), University of Lubeck, Karl-Garus University of Technology, Dresden, Humboldt University, Berlin, University of Konstanz, University of Cologne, Kuilnsky University, Liverpool John Moores University (Great Britain), Akmolinsk State Medical Academy (Kazakhstan), Pedagogical State University, Kyshyniv, Mykola Testemitsanu State Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Kyshyniv, "Shtefan chel Mare" University, Suchava, T.G.Shevchenko Prydniprovsky State University, Tyraspol (Moldova), Lomonosov State University (Moscow), Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russian University of People's Friendship, Moscow, St.Petersburg institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology, Burdenko Medical Academy, Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, Urals State Medical Academy, Yekaterinburg (Russia), Medical University (Warsaw), University Collegium Medicum im. Ludvika Rydygiera, Bydgoshch, the University of Zheshov, Jagiellonian University, Krakov, the University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Medical University, Lublin (Poland), "1 December 1918" University, Alba Iulia, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, University of Medine and Pharmacy "Victor Babes", Timișoara (Romania), Alexander Dubcek-University, Trencin, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice (Slovakiya), Angelholm Hospital (Sweden), University of Lucerne (Switzerland), Neurological Hospital, USA Utah Valley State University, University of the State of New-York, Olbani, King's University School of Medicine, Solomon IslNDS, MEDU International, Inc." Palo Alto, California (USA). Trips for Bachelors, holders of Master's degree, post-graduates are ensured by "Druzi" association (Ukraine-France) and the Centre of international contacts, State of California (USA). Every year students, new doctors and scientists of the university take part in international medical conferences, congresses, symposia and forums in the cities and towns of Poland, United States, Russia, Germany, Austria, Sweden, etc. The number of foreign students from India, Somali, Nigeria, Ghana, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Sudan, USA and other countries, who study in Bukovinian State Medical University, increase from year to year.

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