THERAPEUTIC AND CONSULTATIVE WORK, MEDICAL COUNCIL OF THE DENTAL MEDICAL CENTER
The Dental Medical Center of the Bohomolets National Medical University located at Zoological Street, 1, is a unique educational and therapeutic institution. It provides highly qualified and specialized outpatient consultative and therapeutic services to the population of Kyiv and all regions of Ukraine and trains future dentists.
The Dental Medical Center of NMU was established in 2004, when the Dental Polyclinic of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine was transferred to the Bohomolets National Medical University (Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine dated June 16, 2004, No. 307). This included restructuring the staff according to the tasks set by the university administration, defining the development paths for the center as an educational, therapeutic, and scientific base for of the Dental Faculty of istry, and reconstructing the clinic with the introduction of the latest technologies in diagnostics and treatment.
The Dental Faculty building, with an area of 5696.2 m², was built in 1963 to accommodate 600 students. It was expanded in 1983 due to an increase in the number of students admitted to the Dental Faculty. The total building area now amounts to 9890.3 m², with nearly half of this (4300 m²) dedicated to educational purposes. Following the creation of the Dental Medical Center, the university allocated significant funds for major repairs and equipment procurement. This included updating 60.5% of the dental units, purchasing modern equipment for the dental technician laboratory, equipping the radiological department, creating phantom training classrooms, and performing major repairs on educational and treatment classrooms, fully outfitted in the departments of prosthetic dentistry, pediatric therapeutic dentistry, orthodontics, and surgical dentistry. Repairs were also completed for the lecture hall, conference room, lobbies, auxiliary rooms, and roof, and the elevators were restored to working order.
To date, the main goal of the activity of the NMU Dental Medical Center is to provide highly specialized and specialized dental care, provide training, retraining and advanced training of medical workers in accordance with the standards of higher education, conduct research, develop, test and introduce new medical technologies.
The NMU Dental Medical Center is the main educational base of the Dental Faculty, whose main task is to ensure the highest level of service provision in Ukraine in the field of higher medical dental education. The main activities of the center are:
1) organization and provision of highly specialized and specialized medical/dental care to the population;
2) development, testing and implementation of medical technologies, clinical recommendations, standards (clinical protocols);
3) medical examination on temporary disability of citizens;
4) improving the quality of education and upbringing of students, scientific, pedagogical and medical workers;
5) introduction of new educational programs, maximum use in medical, diagnostic and educational processes of modern information technologies;
6) providing conditions for clinical training and retraining of students, scientific, pedagogical and medical workers within the system of continuing education; improvement and implementation of training programs in internship, master’s degree, clinical residency, participation in the development and implementation of training programs for medical workers;
7) participation in the training of scientific and pedagogical workers of the clinical profile in graduate school, doctoral studies and improving their qualifications;
8) the implementation of scientific and scientific-technical activities by directing fundamental and applied scientific research to the creation and implementation of competitive medical technologies, the development of interdisciplinary scientific areas;
9) conducting analytical and research work to improve the educational process, an organic combination of education, science and medical practice;
10) ensuring the development, expert evaluation, testing and implementation of new medical technologies, materials, medicines and medications, including on a contractual basis;
11) organization and participation in scientific forums: congresses, conventions, scientific and practical conferences;
12) creation of a system for improving the quality of research and clinical work of students, scientists, scientific, pedagogical and medical workers;
13) education of medical workers on the basis of universal values, professional ethics, moral, ethical and legal culture;
14) organizing and conducting activities on sanitary and hygienic education of the population and the formation of a healthy lifestyle;
15) carrying out statistical accounting and reporting using modern information technologies.
The center provides a big variety of medical care: the total number of patients’ visits averages around 240,000 per year, including over 100,000 children. In the anesthesiology department, more than 1,400 patients undergo procedures under general anesthesia annually. On average, the Dental Medical Center of NMU sees and consults up to 1,200 patients daily, including those with the most severe conditions, and also accepts people from rural and urban clinics. The center provides dental care to privileged categories of the population. Since the beginning of the ATO in the east of the country, the Dental Medical Center has provided free treatment and prosthetics to over 1,200 ATO soldiers and their family members. Since 2005, the center has been offering paid dental services, and the revenue from these services is fully used for the center’s needs and update its material and technical base.
The center operates in two shifts according to the academic schedules of students from the dental and medical faculties. The diagnostic and treatment process is supported by a radiology department with seven X-ray machines, an anesthesiology department with full modern equipment, a clinical diagnostic laboratory, a physiotherapy department, and a dental technician laboratory with 73 workstations.
Up to 2,500 students and interns, 86 postgraduates, and clinical residents are trained at the center. Currently, over 300 workstations are used, allowing for individual practical training for each student. Students receive theoretical and practical training in 68 educational and treatment rooms equipped with 271 dental units, 12 classrooms (three of which have 36 phantom units), and three computer labs and two lecture halls. Dental education begins from the second year of studying, with direct patient work starting in the third year under the supervision of center doctors and instructors. A mandatory component of exams is patient work, which is assessed and impacts the overall grade for the discipline.
The development strategy for the Dental Medical Center for 2017 and beyond includes creating a new website, reorganizing with optimization of the staffing and organizational structure, implementing computer patient records and creating a local computer network, renovating the basement floor and the entrance of the NMU dental building, reviewing and updating existing local protocols to meet modern requirements, improving material and technical support, expanding the range of paid services, and setting new tariffs to significantly increase revenue from business activities
