General Surgery Department No. 1 is involved in training students to pass the license examinations "KROK 2" and "KROK 3". A number of educational methodological recommendations, monographs, and textbooks for training students and interns were written.

 

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS

Optimization of surgical operations and analysis of postoperative complications at thyroid gland diseases. Optimizing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the liver and extrahepatic biliary tract, acute and chronic pancreatitis, acute intestinal obstruction. Herniology. Minimally invasive technology in surgery.

 

Over the past 5 years 4 books, 32 articles in professional Ukrainian and foreign journals, 45 abstracts were published. At present 4 theses are prepared. Four invention patents were obtained.

 

HEALTH CARE

Each year the department physicians  consult more than 5000 patients; perform about 1000 operations of various degrees of difficulty. They successfully operate on the patients with surgical pathology of the abdomen, abdominal wall, extremities, thyroid gland, perform complex surgery in patients with different surgical pathology of the liver, extrahepatic bile ducts, pancreas, etc.

The department staff, students, interns, and members of the surgical academic workshop are actively involved in medical diagnostic process, are on duty at the hospital.

 

SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION

General Surgery Department №1 cooperates with the departments of KhNMU, departments and divisions of Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Department of General Surgery of Vinnitsa National Medical University, Lviv National Medical University, actively develops relationship with other Ukrainian and foreign universities, hospitals, medical centers.