SchChat - School | Ternopil National Medical University

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Training at Ternopil State Medical Institute was inaugurated on September 1, 1957, by the resolution of the Ukrainian government of April 12, 1957. In the city that had been almost completely destroyed during World War II and just began raising from the ruins, it was the first higher educational establishment. Three days after the government resolution, the appointed Director (Rector) of the Medical Institute, Candidate of Medical Sciences, surgeon P.O. Ogiy (later on M.D., Professor) and prof. Martynyuk A.H., the vice-rector, arrived to Ternopil. By the decision of the Regional Council, two educational buildings and two hostels were allotted to the Institute. The clinical base was provided by the City Hospital that had been functioning then as the Regional Hospital. The morphological building, Regional Hospital, and a new hostel were under construction. 19 departments began functioning at the Institute, 66 teachers were working there (including 1 M.D., and 17 Candidates of Med. Sc.). Standing at the starting line were young teachers-scientists, later on, professors, honored scientists K.V.Kovanov, Yu.T.Komorovsky, A.I. Lokay, I.O.Sytnyk, M.P.Skakun. Among the founders was Ye.H. Honcharuk, an assistant teacher of General Hygiene Department, later on, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine and many international academies, Rector of the Kyiv National Medical University named after O.O.Bohomolets. TSMU is a tertiary medical school at the forefront medical education and exploration. It continually grows and develops, aiming to become a preeminent and enduring academic research institution for training of highly-skilled and competitive professionals that are recognized by their peers worldwide and are confident that their training is in demand in today society.