P.L.SHUPIK NATIONAL MEDICAL ACADEMY OF POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION

Dedicated to the 90th anniversary





On the eve of the 100th anniversary

 The medical community represented by professional guild of Kyiv physicians with its leaders - graduates of medical faculty of St. Volodymyr University (M.A. Levytskyi, O.Z.Lazariev, Ye.L.Sklovskyi, G.B.Bykhovskyi, I.I Frumin etc) laid the foundation of the Clinical Institute of Advanced Training (1918). In spite of the adversity and difficulties of those times they considered organization of advanced training for physicians to be an overriding objective and became one of the founders of the new institution and its first professors.

The aim of the created Institute was quite clearly defined in its first Statute:

“1) The Clinical Institute of Kyiv Guild of Physicians is a training and scientific institution aimed at specialization of physicians in applied and theoretical medicine, gain of general medical experience by young physicians, management of repetitive courses for knowledge acquisition and refreshment and finally at research in the fields chosen by physicians” (the Central State Archive of the Superior Authorities and Administration of Ukraine. Fund 166, case № 421, p.48-55, 1921-1922).

A steering committee elected by the Guild of Physicians became the core for the Institute formation. The committee carried out considerable work “to design sections of the Institute, equip and arrange medical offices, invite consulting physicians, lecturers, tutors, out-patient department physicians for involvement in the activity of the Institute …on 2 August 1918 the committee took a chance to open (in an office at 13 Shevchenko boulevard) a demonstrative clinical out-patient department in all specialties as well as day and night out-patient departments for domiciliary aid (the Central State Archive of the Superior Authorities and Administration of Ukraine. Fund 166, case № 421, p.90, 1921-1922).

The steering committee terminated its work on 17 October 1918 and delegated the functions to the Board of the Institute elected at the general meeting and composed of “a chairman, two trustees and a secretary”. Professor Levytskyi became the first chairman (1918-1922; 13 Shevchenko boulevard). Academic affairs of the Institute were under the jurisdiction of the Council composed of “a chairman, academic secretary and all heads of sections (departments) in a specialty as well as members of the board of adjudicators.”

In that way 90 years ago the Clinical Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians, whose very name reflected its clinical orientation, started its activity. The major objectives were defined by Professor Levytskyi as follows: “training of physicians in theoretical and applied medicine, knowledge acquisition and refreshment. To achieve those objectives periodic repetitive courses in all specialties are arranged which at the same time contribute to professional medical care of the vast masses of population in Kyiv and its outskirts…” (the Central State Archive of the Superior Authorities and Administration of Ukraine. Fund 166, case № 421, p.90, 1921-1922).

It is necessary to give the founder's of the Institute due as they posed such objectives having at their disposal only one polyclinic for domiciliary aid and an out-patient department where in 1918 opened were a chemist's and a chemical and bacteriological laboratory. In those conditions the Institute initiated origin of the system of post-graduate training of physicians in Ukraine.

In the beginning educational work at the Institute comprised practical activity of trainees at medical institutions and lecture attendance in the evenings; regular studies at the Institute started at the autumn term of 1920 when 117 physicians became trainees of “new repetitive courses”. That period concurred with the beginning of higher school reconstruction in Ukraine, consequently in February 1921 the Institute was passed from the People’s Commissariat for Health into the authority of Ukrainian Central Department of Education, in particular Kyiv Hubernia (Governmental) Department of Education, and it was directly presided by the newly-elected board of administration and council which were the first to develop the general plan of academic activity of the Institute. In late twenties apart from the above-mentioned departments the Institute included departments of otorhinolaryngology (1921, Professor S.Ye. Stavraki), dermatovenerology (1921, Professor O.G. Lurie), internal diseases (1921, Professor O.B.Bershtein), surgery (1922, Professor G.B. Bykhovskyi), pathological anatomy (1922, Professor I.T. Titov), nervous diseases (1923, Professor B.M. Mankovskyi), orthopedics and traumatology (1926, Professor I.I. Frumin), psychiatry (1927, candidate of medical sciences I.O. Zalkind), urology (1929, Professor A.A. Chaika). Educational and scientific activity of the Institute was financed by the People’s Commissariat for Education, whereas medical work – by the People’s Commissariat for Health i.e. there was a definite diarchy.

In 1928 summing up the achievements of the Institute for the first 10 years of its existence, defining its role and place in the system of health care and drawing the prospect its director Professor O.B.Bershtein emphasised that “ During the first days of the revolutionary epoch in the environment of ruin, famine, epidemics created was that cultural centre - one of the stages of Soviet medicine development. Its existence was a demand of the life, the country with the increasing cultural objectives required knowledge armed public health carers; despite being limited by its material resources the state was aimed at the utmost support to Kyiv Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians development ….. for 10 years the Institute turned into a large scientific and educational institution that provided knowledge to over 2500 physicians, more than ¼ of all Ukrainian physicians … (Proceedings of the Clinic of Nervous diseases of Kyiv state Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians. Volume 1. Dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Institute. K., 1928. p.3-4).

The beginning of thirties was marked by fundamental reorganization of higher medical school in Ukraine lasted for 6 years (1924-1930) during which leading representatives of medical intelligentsia repeatedly emphasised that higher medical education subordinated to the People’s Commissariat for Education and its Ukrainian Central Department of Education had to be passed to the People’s Commissariat for Health. On 12 July 1930 the Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian Soviet Social Republic issued the resolution “About reorganization of higher academic institutions and higher technical academic institutions and their placement under the authority of corresponding people’s commissariats” according to which the authority of higher medical and pharmaceutical education was passed from system of the People’s Commissariat for Education to the People’s Commissariat for Health which was interested in development of the medical institutions net, improvement of training and knowledge extension. Concentration of the authority in one institution became a turning-point in history of medical higher schools in Ukraine and amended considerably activity of the Institute first of all regarding the subjects to upgrading qualification and its terms. All mentioned above was initially regulated only by the first Statute of the Institute, whereas the People’s Commissariat for Health and Party and government regulations of early thirties in particular “About medical personnel” (1931) and “About training of physicians” (1934) made clear state demands towards their base training and upgrading the qualifications.

According to the new Statute (1931), the Institute was divided into sections: administrative and managerial & scientific and academic. The latter one comprised medical and prophylactic, sanitary and hygienic, mother and child care and field work departments which laid the foundation of the future faculties. In its turn the department of field work was divided into three bureaus: scientific and methodological, scientific and consultative and lecturer. The Statute defined trainees’ duties as follows: “After training completion all trainees of institutes for advanced training are obliged to work for 1 – 1.5 month corresponding to 1 month of training according to the People’s Commissariat for Health appointment (the Central State Archive of the Superior Authorities and Administration of Ukraine. Fund 342, volume 2, case № 3287, p.74-77). Furthermore, introduced in 1934 regulation expected primary specialization in certain specialties (ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology etc) and advanced training to be performed at institutes for advanced training.

In accordance with the government` resolution «On the strengthening of a rural medical aid station», for the first time, compulsory advanced medical training courses were established:for rural doctors – once per 3 years, for urban doctors – once per 5 years.

Increasing needs of practical health care especially of the rural system as well as the initiation of specialization required further broadening of the system of knowledge development for doctors both in fundamental subjects and narrow specialties. Precisely these factors predetermined the specialization of the departments created (chronologically) at the Institute in the 30-s years:(Directors – O.B.Bernstein, 1922-1934;L.M. Chernyak, 1934-1941) Maxillofacial Surgery Department (1931, Prof. S.N.Vaysblat), Oncqlqgy Department (1932, Prof G.B.Byknovskyi), Microbiology Department (1932, Prof. M.G. Benyash), iInfectious Diseases Department (1934, Prof. A.M.Zyukov), Social Hygiene and Public Health Organization Department (1935, K.F.Duplenko), Phthisiology Department (1935, Prof. M.S.Morozovskyi), Epidemiology Department (1935, Prof. S.N.Ruchkovskyi), Obstetrics and Gynecology Department (1935, Prof. V.L.Lozinskyi), Roentgenology Department (1936, Ass.Prof. M.Yo.Shor), Surgery Department (1936, Prof. M.S.Kolomiychenko), Forensic Medicine (1938, Prof. A.M.Gamburg), Food Hygiene (1936, Ass. Prof. B.L.Gordin) thus, before the war there were 24 departments at the Institute, but its activities were not limited only by retraining doctors in the institution growing needs in developing professional knowledge conditioned the creation of a new type of postgraduate education by approaching it directly to medical establishments. For this purpose some centers for advanced training of physicians, as branches of departments, headed by the specialists who had been trained at the Institute, were organized in powerful for that time medical establishments in Bila Tserkva, Zhytomyr, Korosten`, Chyrkasy and Chernihiv. Broadening educational and material basis as well as the range of specialties and retraining of physicians enabled the Institute, where more than 1, 000 specialists were trained annually, to become one of the most powerful medical educational and research institutions of this country in the pre-war time.

 The pre-war period was characterized by substantial contribution of the Institute`s scientists to the treasury of national science. The scientists of the Institute were initiators in creating new types of medical establishments. Thus, Prof. Ye.L. Sklovskyi was one of founders of children’s medicoprophylactic establishments, and public movement «A drop of milk» in Kyiv, Prof G.B.Bykhovskyi organized an oncology dispensary within Kyiv Radiological Institute as well as the first oncological clinic in Kyiv (1934), Prof G.F. Pysemskyi became one of organizers of rural maternities (1934), which were recognized in the former USSR.

Within the period of the II World War the Institute stopped its activity, its academic and material basis was destroyed during temporary occupation of Kyiv. Like other Ukrainian doctors the scientists of the Institute made their considerable contribution to the achievements of medicine during the war period, and some of them proved to be talented organizers of military medicine. The war history memorialized the names of Prof. V.Kh.Vasylenko, head of Internal Medicine Department, chief therapeutists of North-Caucasian and 1st Ukranian Fronts; Prof. Chayka, Head of Urology Department, major-general of medical service and many others.

The Institute renewed its activities in conformity with the Resolution of Ukrainian Government of November 18, 1943 on its renewal which was passed two weeks after Kyiv had been liberated.

In 1944 the first Departments of Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Traumatology started their activities at the base of the former 408- th «okruzhnoy» military hospital and some medical establishments of the city. The specialists of evacuation hospitals of the Ministry of Public Health became their first trainees.

The first directors of the Institute of the post-war years (Ya.A.Okhrimenko, 1943-1944;V.P.Komisarenko, 1944;I.I.Kalchenko, 1944-1957) sustained all the difficulties of the restoration period. They had to create academic and material basis in order to recommence the activities of the pre-war departments and organize new ones. Considerable assistance was rendered to the Institute by Kyiv region hospital which, in 1944, according to the Decree of People`s Commissars of the former USSR was approved its training base, where the majority of clinical departments and some theoretical ones were located.

According to the Order of the People`s Commissariat of Health Care of ex-USSR of March 21, 1944 medical and sanitary-hygiene faculties resumed their activities In 1945, planned training of specialists of the Ministry of Public Health started. At that time, 68 teachers worked at the Institute, among them there were 19 professors, 20 associate professors and 29 assistants.

 During the first 10 post-war years, the following departments were organized: Military-Medical Training (1945, major-general Maslov) Physiotherapy, Resort Therapy (1945, Prof. A.R.Kyrychynskyi), Neurosurgery (1945, Prof. O.I. Arutyunov), Sports Medicine and Drug Control(1946;Associate Professor S.M. Ivanov), Internal Medicine-2 (1949, Prof. A.L.Mikhnyov), Thoraco-Abdominal Surgery (1955, Prof. M.M.Amosov).In 1953 the qualitative and quantitative structure of departments was enlarged. Kyiv Institute for Advanced Training of Pharmaceutists, which had existed since 1939, was joined to the Institute including the following Departments: Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Prof. Ya.A.Fialkov), Pharmacognosy and Pharmacology (Assistant Professor M.Z. Mindlin), Pharmaceutics(Prof. G.A.Vaysman).The creation of new departments and enlargement of specialties for retraining doctors resulted in increased work volume of the Institute:if in 1944, 486 trainees were trained, then the plan for 1953 exceeded 1600 trainees. Between 1957and 1959 (Director-Associate Professor V.D. Bratus`) the Department of Medical Radiology (1957, Prof. O.O.Horodetskyi) and that of Pediatrics-2 (1959, Prof. Ye.G. Horodets`ka) were organized.

At the end of the 50-s Prof. Umovist was appointed its head who headed the Institute for the following 25 years (1950-1984). That period was marked by important events in the life of the Institute which influenced all its further activity. They are related, first of all, to considerable increase in the number of departments, which was conditioned by needs of practical public health which at the beginning of the 60-s was directed at expanding, improving and increasing the quality of specialized medical care. Secondly, since 1965 and for a quarter of century (up to 1991) the Institute had been subordinated to the Ministry of Public Health of ex-USSR and it obtained a new «international» status because representatives of all CIS countries became its trainees, although Ukrainian doctors, always made up almost a half of all trainees.

Just the needs of practical public health determined the types of specialization at the departments that were organized in the Institute during the period of 1960-1984:Clinical and Laboratory Diagnostics (1960, Prof. I.F.Fedorov), Nervous diseases-2 (1962, Prof. P.A.Perfilov), Orthopedic Stomatology (1964, Prof. M.O, Kodola), General and Communal Hygiene (1965, Prof. D.M. Kalyuzhyi), Radiation Hygiene (1966, Prof. M.F.Lipkan), Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (1967, Prof. A.I.Trischynskyi), Neonatolology (1967, Prof. S.P. Katonina), Civil Defense (1968, Ass. Prof. M.D, Davyhora), Toxicology Hygiene, and Pesticide Intoxication (1968, Prof. L.I.Medvid`), Children’s Psychoneurology (1969, Prof. P.I.Kovalenko), Hematology and Transfusion Medicine (1969, Prof. G.P. Sarinytskyi), Rehabilitation, Sports Medicine and Manual Therapy (1969, Prof. L.Ye.Pelekh), Cardiology (1969, Prof. A.L.Mikhnyov), Gerontology and Geriatrics (1970, Prof. D.F.Chebotaryov), Traumatology, Orthopedics and Burn Traumata (1974, Prof. M.V.Levenets), Thoracic Surgery and Pulmonology (1975, Prof. O.M.Avilova), Children`s Stomatology (1976, Prof. O.V.Udovytska), Children’s Dermatovenereology (1978, Prof. I.V. Schutskyi), Organization and Economics of Pharmaceutics (1978, Ass. Prof. I.M.Hubskyi), Functional Diagnostics (1978, Prof. M.K.Furkalo), Preventive Dentistry-2 (1980, Prof. G.M.Vyshnyak), Obstetrics and Gynecology-3 (1980, Prof. Ye.V.Kokhanevych), Nervous Diseases-3 (1980, Prof. Yu.I.Holovchenko), Internal Medicine-3 (1980, Prof. D.D.Drozdov), Pediatrics-3 (1980, Prof. Zh.P.Hudzenko), Children`s Surgery (1980, Prof. D.Yu.Kryvchenya).

By the beginning of the 90-s the Institute had become one of the biggest in ex-USSR and the most powerful educational institution of such a type in Ukraine. If in the first post-war year (1945) only 68 teachers worked at the Academy, among them there were 19 professors, 20 associate professors and 29 assistants, in the jubilee 2008 there are more than 1400 employees including over 600 scientific and pedagogical workers, among them 180 doctors of sciences and 410 candidates of sciences.

Within the period of 1985-1991 (Prof. V.M. Gyrin – rector from 1984), when the Institute was subordinated to the Ministry of Public Health of the former USSR the following Departments were organized: Virology (1985, Prof. V.M.Gyrin), Clinical Immunology and Allergology(1985, Prof. Ye.V.Gyulling), Medical Informatics and Computer Engineering Techniques (1986, Prof. O.P.Mintser), Urgent and Rescue Emergency Medical Care (1987, ProfYa.V.Goer), Medicosocial Problems of Mother and Child Health Care (1988, Prof. Zh.A.Shkiryak), Children`s Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (1988, Prof. G.I.Belebezyev), Medical Genetics(1989, Prof. T.I.Buzhiyevska), Children`s Otorhinolaryngology (1989, Prof. A.O.Layko), Clinical Pharmacology and Phytotherapy (1990, Prof. G.M. Voytenko), Gastroenterology and Dietotherapy (1990, Prof. Degtyarova).

A new period in the activity of the Institute started in October 1991 after it had become a structural unit of the Ministry of Health (MH) in independent Ukraine. It led to new qualitative changes of its status. Under new conditions which coincided with the beginning of reformation of medical education in Ukraine, the Institute took place of priority in the field of post-diploma training and turned into an educational and methodological centre of the MH of Ukraine, some departments, for instance Public Health Management Department as well as Informatics and Computer Engineering Techniques Department are determined by the MH as leading departments on appropriate problems.

According to the concept of the reformation orientated to achieving the level of training doctors corresponding to the most developed world countries, in 1992 new types of postgraduate training for doctors and pharmaceutists were introduced, in particular: pre-certification training courses, day-time and external training for intern-doctors, training courses in specialties designed for administrators and teachers of medical institutions, faculties for advanced training of doctors. In independent Ukraine national new curricula and syllabi have been worked out as well as assessment computer programmes for the institutions of similar type have been developed and implemented.

After returning the Institute to the system of the Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine, a number of new departments were created:Cardiovascular Surgery (1992, Prof. G.V.Knyshov, Sports Medicine and Sanology (1992, Prof. G.L.Apanasenko), Endocrinology (1992, Prof. A.S. Yefimov), Children’s Infectious Diseases (1993, Prof. L.I.Chernyshova), Nephrology (1995, Prof. L.A.Pyrih), Pedagogics and Psychology (1995, Prof. Cherpinsky).

From 1992 over 1000 interns-doctors are trained in 43 specialties annually. Between 1992 and 1993, 7 branch offices of the Institute’s departments were created together with Zhytomyr and Chernihiv regional bodies of public health at bases of their most powerful medical establishments for day-time and external training of interns by involving local highly qualified specialists for this work. For the last 5 years, over 13, 000 doctors and pharmaceutists have been trained in the internship and almost 5, 000 specialists have been certified for the title of a specialist- doctor and pharmaceutist.

New requirements advanced by the Concept of reformation of medical higher and postgraduate education, practical health care needs and new scientific trends in activities of departments have substantially promoted the arrangement of their quantitative and qualitative structure.

The Institute got a new qualitative status in 1996, in the year of the 5-th anniversary of Ukrainian independence. On the 13-th of May 1996 the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers «On the formation of Kyiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education» was issued, according to it the Academy was considered to be an educational Institution of a new type and higher (IV) level of accreditation – the only one at that time in Ukraine Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education.

Summarizing the 90-year way proceeded from Clinical Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians to the first one in Ukraine National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, it should be emphasized that it has always been proud of scientific personnel. At different periods prominent scientists, academicians, associate members of Academies worked and work at the Academy:M.M.Amosov, O.I.Arutyunov, F.Yu.Bogdanov, V.D.Bratus, V.KhVasylenko, Yu.V.Voronenko (Rector of the Academy since 2002), A.S.Yefimov, D.M.Kalyuzhnyi, V.P.Komisarenko, B.M.Mankivskyi, O.M.Marzeyev, L.I.Medvid`, L.V.Tymoshenko, D.F.Chebotaryov, M.G.Shandala, O.O.Shalimov et al.

Nowadays 18 academicians, and associate members of the NAS and AMS of Ukraine, 29 Honoured science and technology workers of Ukraine, 45 Honoured physicians of Ukraine, 5 Honoured national education workers of Ukraine, 4 Honoured inventors and rationalizers of Ukraine, 2 Heroes of Ukraine work at the Academy.

In different years, new Ukrainian scientific schools were founded by the Academy’s scientists: M.M.Amosov, Yu.P.Vdovychenko, I.M.Gandzha, O.A.Yevdoschenko, Ye.V.Kokhanevych, Ye.L.Macheret, O.P.Mintser, M.Ye.Polischuk, M.M.Serhienko, L.V.Tymoshenko, A.I.Trischynskyi, O.O.Shalimov. At all stages of the Academy formation and development its scientists represented advanced scientific achievements in Ukrainian and world science. Scientists are well known not only in Ukraine and CIS countries but also oversees. The results of scientific and research works of the Academy`s scientists for the last 15 years have been published in 265 monographs, 74 textbooks, 337 educational manuals, 95 reference books, 523 guidelines and information letters in more than 16400 articles in journals and collections of scientific works, a third part of them – at international level were represented in 606 patents and they were reported at more than 260 scientific forums.

For the last 30 years the Academy’s scientists have obtained more than 522 Copyright Certificates on inventions, some of them are licensed in the USA, Italy, Yugoslavia.

 Training of young scientists is one of the greatest tasks of the Academy. As long as 40 years ago, being an Institute, for the first time it obtained the right to defend theses for the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences (1963) and in 1967 – for the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences.

There are 10 specialized Boards for defense of Doctor’s and Candidate’s theses in 12 specialties, including internal diseases, nervous diseases, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, anesthesiology and intensive therapy, forensic medicine, pharmaceutics and pharmacy management, pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacognosy, eye diseases, social medicine, stomatology, medical and biological informatics and cybernetics. 55 doctoral and 406 candidate theses have been defended within the period from 2003 to 2008.

For the last 30 years (1978-2008), 341 doctors and 1796 candidates of medical science have been trained in the institute-academy, among them 552 candidates – in post-graduate course, 170 of them – for foreign countries. 736 post-graduate students, 882 clinical residents and 92 masters have been trained within the period of 2003-2008.

NMAPE is a founder of 23 periodical scientific publications recognized by medical community: “Likars’ka sprava”, “Ukrayinskyi medychnyi chasopys”, “Simeina medytsyna”, “Ukrayins’kyi zhurnal hematolohiyi i transfuziolohiyi”, “Khirurkhiya Ukrayiny”, “Zbirnyk naukovykh prats’ spivrobitnykiv NMAPO imeni P.L.Shupyka”, “Nove v hematolohiyi i transfuziolohiyi”, “Promeneva diahnostyka, promeneva terapiya”, “Medychnyi vsesvit”, “Sovremennaya stomatologiya”, “Reproductivnoye zdorovye zhenshchiny”, “Khirurhiya dytiachoho viku”, “Plastychna ta reconstruktyvna khirurhiya”, “Sovremennaya pediatriya”, “Psykhichne zdorovya”, “Radiolohichnyi visnyk”, “Dental’ni tekhnolohiyi”, “Liky Ukrayiny”, “Mystetstvo likuvannia”, “Sotsial’na pediatriya”, “Renthenolohiya – praktyka”, “Medychna matematyka ta inzheneriya”, “Neurootology Newsletter”.

At the period of sovereignty of Ukraine, the international cooperation of the Academy has entered a new phase. It is headed by the Department of International Relations and Scientific-Pedagogical Work with Foreign Citizens, founded in 1993 as a structural unit, not financed by the governmental budget. In the last years a number of agreements with educational establishments from many countries of the world have been signed, in particular, Royal College for General Practitioners (England) and Royal Scottish College for General Practitioners – in family practitioners’ training, Lublin Medical Academy (Poland), College of Optometry (Pennsylvania, the USA) – in the field of ophthalmology, Colorado University of Traumatology and Orthopedics (the USA), German International Academy of Rehabilitation (Munich) – in the field of neonatology and pediatrics, International Academy of Classic Homeopathy (Greece), Zurich University (Switzerland), Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich (Germany), Health Care Ministry of Uzbekistan Republic, Iran Islamic Republic, University in Bari city (Italy), Bilorus Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Slovak Medical University, Yahellon University (Poland), University of Orebro (Sweden), Illinois University (the USA), Maastricht University (the Netherlands).

In 2001 the Academy, being the first from medical higher educational establishments of Ukraine, became a collective member of the International Personnel Academy (UNESCO). The Public Health School has been founded in cooperation with Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Maastricht University (the Netherlands). Lawyers’ and economists’ training is being conducted in cooperation with International Solomon University. International Genetic Research Center has been founded at support of Zurich University; International Classic Homeopathy School has been formed at support of George Vitoulkas (Greece), Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize.

Annually, more than 300-400 foreign citizens from 40-50 countries of the world take clinical residency and post-graduate courses at NMAPE departments.

Scientific research work with a number of firms from the USA, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Japan, Israel and Croatia is being conducted. They study the effect of new pharmaceuticals which are used in agriculture and everyday life. Such organizations as TASIS Program, International Development Agency (the USA), “Vidrodzhennia” Fund, “Osvita” Medical project and “Health Care Partners” (Canada) are the active partners of the Academy. The Academy is one of the organizers of the “Medinformatyka” Association with agencies in Canada, Germany, Vietnam, China and Bulgaria.

Annually, near 50 foreign delegations visit the Academy and more than 70 its scientists take part in international foreign congresses and joint scientific investigations. The number of foreign citizens that take post-graduate training at the Academy departments has increased as well.

Joint work with practical care bodies and institutions is an old tradition of the Academy. It is sufficient to cite that annually about 200 thousand patients are given consultations and over 20 thousand complex surgical interventions are performed by its staff members in base and extra-base medical establishments. Over 30 leading scientists are head experts of the MPH of Ukraine who work at improving the quality of medical care for the population and its organization.

The current stage of state socio-economic development requires more profound understanding of the budget role in state economic system, improving budget transparency and understanding the institution’s budget by the public, increasing the quality of provided state services and efficacy of using budget finances. According to a new way of forming the budget in Ukraine, the estimates of general and special funds in 5 budget programmes are approved annually at the Academy. The budget programmes are realized through ensuring priorities in the sphere of state expenditures. First of all, they are payment of salaries and other social expenditures, energy costs, improving material and technical basis, purchasing up-dated educational technical means.

10 years ago the 80-th anniversary of the Academy was marked by naming it after Platon Lukych Shupyk (1907-1986), an outstanding statesman and scientist, according to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministry of Ukraine №513 of April 20, 1998 «On the perpetuation of P.L. Shupyk`s memory».Professor P.L.Shupyk headed the Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine twice (1952-1954, 1956-1969). He made a great contribution into the development of material, academic and scientific basis of the Academy. For 14 years (1965-1979) he was the head of the Department of Social Medicine and Organization of Health Care (now Department of Public Health Management).

The Academy celebrates its 90-th anniversary in National status conferred by the Decree of the President of Ukraine V.A.Yushchenko «On awarding Kyiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education named after P.L.Shupyk the National status» of March 27, 2006, №236/2006.

In conformity with the Academy Statute in 2003 its substantially new subdivisions were founded – Institute of Stomatology by joining up stomatology departments and stomatology polyclinic (Director Prof. O.V.Pavlenko) as well as Internet Centre (Prof. L.A.Stadnyuk, 2005), Scientific and Educational Methodologic Centre of Distance Education (Prof. O.P.Mintser, 2006), Ukrainian State Institute of Reproductology (Prof. Yu.V.Kaminsky, 2006). International Genetic Centre (Prof. N.G.Gorovenko, 2002) and International State Medical School of Homeopathy (Ass.Professor O.P.Moschych, 2001) function at the Academy.

Thus, 90 years ago having started its activities with separate courses of advanced training and having at its disposal only one polyclinic as a training base with a small number of visits, for the years of its existence National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education named after P.L.Shupyk has become a powerful and leading institution of post-diploma medical education and powerful scientific centre which comprises 6 faculties, 74 departments of different specialties, over 600 scientific-pedagogical and research workers including more than 180 professors and doctors of medical sciences, 410 candidates of sciences, which is one of the highest indices in Ukraine.

Its educational base is located in administration and morphologic offices with an area of about 8, 000 m2 and its clinical base comprises almost 11, 000 hospital beds in modern medical establishments and scientific-research institutes in Kyiv.

The staff of the Academy has been contributing a lot to the development of Ukrainian medicine by promoting the reform of health care in Ukraine in general and the reform of higher medical education in particular.