The Department of propaedeutics of internal medicine №2

Educational activities

Educational work at the department is aimed at forming the moral and spiritual qualities of the personality of a professional doctor.

The department professors’ lectures cover issues of medical morals, medical deontology, tradition of the Kiev therapeutic school.

Students come to the clinic on the second year studying medical ethics, aesthetics, deontology, basic issues of moral and judicial responsibility, standards of behavior, rules of personal hygiene of a medical professional.

During practical classes on propedeutics in hospital wards the teachers, by their own example, teach communication with the patient, methods of physical examination.

While students are working with patients the teacher controls the behavior, appearance of the student and tactfully points out the student’s mistakes. At the students’ scientific group meetings students study how to work with medical literature, do research work, write abstracts and report at student scientific conferences. Annually students participate in scientific conferences and competition of student scientific works and receive prizes. The department professors cover educational and professional problems on the press, on the radio and television.

Students develop a healthy lifestyle by discussing the harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs on the body. These issues are regularly discussed at lectures and workshops, where these factors are pointed among the main factors contributing to peptic ulcer disease, liver cirrhosis, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The department staff together with students participate in educational, volunteer and public events of Bogomolets National Medical University, Ministry of Education and Science (donation, blood pressure measurement, blood glucose measurement). Since 2016, the student scientific conference “Topical issues of nephrology” has been held at the department within the framework of the April student scientific session. In 2017, 23 students took part in the conference. The first place was won by the 3rd year student of medical faculty №4 Danyuk Maryna with the report “Lupus nephritis”. In 2018, the conference was attended by 17 students. The first place was taken by the 3rd year student of medical faculty №1 Karpiv Iryna with the report “Renovascular arterial hypertension”. In 2018, 2019 the staff of the department were co-organizers of the Ukrainian Scientific Student Conference in English. In 2018, the second place was won by the student of medical faculty №1 Anna Fedoryshyn with the scientific work “Modern diagnostic of gastroesophageal reflux in the patients with bronchial asthma”. In 2019, 17 students participated in the conference.

Students together with the associate professor Karmazina O.M., who is responsible for the educational work, visit museums, theaters, scientific medical library.

Professor Moyseenko V.O. takes care of the specialized orphanage in Boyarka: New Year’s gifts are given to the children by St. Nicholas.