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The Department of Natural Sciences was founded in August 1979 simultaneously with the Department of the Russian language as part of the preparatory faculty for foreign citizens on the premises of the educational building No. 2 of the Medical University. The training base of the department is 400 m2: three biology classrooms, two physics classrooms, two chemistry classrooms, one mathematics classroom, one classroom from the Soviet Union course, as well as a technical classroom which later became a computer class. The department was sufficiently provided with training tables, chemical reagents, biological collections. There were the necessary number of technical means of training: film set, overhead projectors, epidemioscopes, tape recorders, training and control machines.

 

Associate Professor, Cand. Sc. Biology P. G. Rybak who previously worked as an assistant at the Department of Biochemistry of Vinnytsia Medical Institute headed the department.

 

In the year of the department’s foundation, 150 foreign students from around the world studied at the preparatory faculty, and 16 teachers worked there.

 

The department is multidisciplinary. There were five educational and methodical sections in the structure of the department: chemistry (head — Assoc. Prof. P. G. Rybak), biology (head — senior lecturer PM Zinchenko, 1979-2001), physics (head — senior lecturer G. L. Kozachyshyn, 1979-2000), mathematics (supervisor — senior lecturer O. Z. Tarasova, 1979-1998), «Soviet Union» (supervisor — senior lecturer V. V. Shumarin, 1979-1981). In 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the course «Soviet Union» was renamed the course «History of Ukraine» which became part of the Department of Ukrainian Studies (until 1991 — the Department of the Russian language).

 

The main task of teachers is to systematize the knowledge acquired by foreign students in their homeland, mastering the language of the subject (Ukrainian or Russian) as a means of obtaining scientific information to the extent necessary for free perception of textbooks and lectures in the first year of medical university.

 

In the first years of work, the teachers of the department made a lot of efforts to compile methodological developments for practical classes, laboratory work, independent work of students and control of their knowledge. At the same time, thematic dictionaries in four languages ​​(English, French, Spanish and Arabic) in chemistry, physics, biology and mathematics were prepared and published.

 

During the 1980’s the department cooperated with the departments of natural sciences of Kyiv, Chisinau, Kharkiv universities, Zaporizhia and Rostov medical institutes. The result of the cooperation was the exchange of teaching experience, joint participation in conferences, teacher training.

 

Every year the department holds student competitions in chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics. The winners of the Olympiads are exempt from exams and are awarded diplomas.