Department of social medicine and healthcare of the O.O. Bogomolets national medical university is 90m

Abstract

The article highlights the stages of development and characteristics of the activities of the department, controversial issues regarding the final determination of time of department’s foundation are eliminated. The advocated provisions of the article are proven by archival documents. It includes the material about the beginning of the discipline’s teaching. It is mentioned that social hygiene was not included to the education course at the medical faculty of St. Volodymyr Kyiv University; therefore this discipline was a part of epidemiology and sanitation statistics. The contribution of the famous scientist, the founder of social hygiene as a science and educational course, one of the first physician­academicians, Minister of people’s health and wardship O. Korchak­Chepurkivskyi is defined. The activities of the department’s heads as well as their contribution to the educational and research work on social hygiene are traced. Sequence on changing name of the department at the time of its existence is shown. Educational courses, activities of the department, which are educational­methodical and scientific work, training of scientific and teaching personnel, advanced training of scientific and teaching personnel, consulting on medical­social and statistical issues are mentioned in the article.

Keywords

• Київський університет
• медичний інститут
• кафедра
• завідувач
• медицина
• соціальна гігієна
• історія медицини