V.P. Stus

Development of urology in Dnipropetrovsk (on the 100th anniversary of the founding state "Dnepropetrovsk Medical Academy MOH of Ukraine")

The history of medical education in the Dnipropetrovsk region originates from September 15, 1916, when they were first created the Higher Courses for Women, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine was Y.M. Dolzhansky.

Up to 30-ies of XX century, the population of urologic care was provided by two venereologists, cystoscopists and surgeons. In 1923, the head of the Department of General Surgery of the Dnepropetrovsk Medical Institute appointed MD, Professor V.N. Derevyanko, who headed it until 1930. Base Hospital became the surgical department of the city hospital № 2, where instrumental urological research and operations on the urinary tract in the Dnipropetrovsk region were first introduced.

In 1923, at the city hospital №2 deployed 20 urological beds, which became the base of the Dnepropetrovsk Institute of Advanced Medical Assistant course and base Urology Medical Institute, which is headed by Associate Professor B.T. Fux.

In May 1935 in Dnepropetrovsk created urological society, as a section of Ukrainian Society of Urology. It is a merger of Urology, cystoscopists, venereologists, surgeons and gynecologists. The first head of the company selected Associate Professor Boris Fux.

In 1974, the head of the Dnepropetrovsk Scientific-Practical Society selected Professor O.V. Ljulko, in the same year on the basis of the urological department of the Regional Hospital named after I.I. Mechnikov organized by the Department of Urology, which was headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor O.V. Ljulko.

In October 1980, the Presidium of the Republican Scientific Society of Urologists, thanks to advances in the field of Urology, held in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine III Congress of Urology.

At the initiative of the Department of the beginning of the production of the magazine it was laid in 1996, "Medical perspectives", and in 1997 - Ukrainian scientific and practical journal "Urology".

Department of Urology, operative surgery and topographic anatomy by Rector DSMA order was created by merging the departments of urology, operative surgery and topographic anatomy. On October 1, 2011 was appointed head of the department, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Viktor Stus.

Currently, in the Dnipropetrovsk region work 136 urologists: 4 of them are doctor of medical sciences, 15 candidates of medical sciences. Percentage of attestated urologists of Dnipropetrovsk region is 86, the percentage of urologists with the highest category - 47.9, with the first - 34.2, and the second - 17.9%.