The top medical university in Ukraine, according to the UNESCO rating, is the Bogomolets National MMBBS studying in Europeedical University in Kyiv. It is named in honour of physiologist Oleksandr Bogomolets (1881-1946) who was born and died in that country's capital city.
Bogomolets U. has faculties for General Medicine, Pediatrics (Child Medicine) and Preventive Care. Bogomolets NMU offers specializations in military medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and medical psychology. Some ten thousand undergraduate and postgraduate students are enrolled, including nearly a thousand international students from 50 countries. The university offers instruction in English.
Today the medical faculty is one of the numerous faculties of the medical university. About 2746 students are studying at 38 departments here. 484 foreigners are studying at the faculty as well. The teaching process is carried out by 500 teachers – academicians, professors, assistant professors, senior teachers and assistants. There are scientific schools, which are well-known in Ukraine as well as abroad.
The teachers of the medical faculty have done translations of a number of manuals from various languages into Ukrainian. A huge work was done according to the translations of textbooks from the following subjects: eye dis-eases, obstetrics, embryology, etc. into English language. And these materials are widely used by students of the leading medical universities of Europe and world on the whole. At the faculty departments, the actual trends of scientific investigations are in the process of elaborating, introducing and improving. At the affiliated hospitals of departments, 10 specialized centers of treatment are created.
The Students’ Scientific Society of the faculty is working progressively here. According to their choice students can join up with scientific research from even the first course. There students can acquire the professional skills of work with scientific literature. Beginning from the 2nd and 3rd years of study, at the departments of basic medical disciplines, students master the major principles of making experiments. And at the clinical departments they practice new methods of examination of patients, using the modern diagnostic equipment.
Scientific sessions are held in English. Bogomolets National Medical University More than four hundred students from Italy, NethMBBS studying in Europeerlands, Germany, Poland, Russia, Byelorussia, Lebanon and Yemen and almost of all higher medical institutions of Ukraine have a great wish to participate in these conferences.
Basic medical and humanitarian disciplines are studied in the first and the second years. From the third year starts the study of clinical disciplines. After the second and the third years students have the clinical practice fulfilling duties of the junior and medium medical personal; after the fourth and the fifth years students work as doctor’s assistants. Medical faculty graduates get diplomas of the unified sample. Inside the Museum of Human Diseases.
After graduating from the University junior specialists continue postgraduate study in the internship at the faculty of the postgraduate education. Students who display interest in scientific work can get the department’s recommendation and can be directed by the Scientific Council of the University for further study in Postgraduate Training (Master’s Program, Residency, PhD Program).