History of Department of Surgical Diseases

The history of the department is closely connected with the history of the Kharkiv Imperial University and its medical faculty, where teaching began in 1811, and already in 1814 P.M. Shumlyansky opened a clinic of faculty surgery, where surgical diseases were taught. In March 1993, the medical faculty at the Kharkiv National University resumed its work under the name “Faculty of Fundamental Medicine”.

One of the first departments at the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine was the Department of Surgical Diseases. The date of its birth should be considered February 23, 1994, when an order was issued at the university to create a department with a staff of 4 employees. It was headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences Professor Khvorostov Yevhen Dmitrovych. During its existence, the composition of the department has increased several times. All employees of the department have academic degrees of candidates and doctors of medical sciences. Since 2022, the department has been headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences Professor Serhiy Oleksandrovych Bychkov.

An integral part of the department's work is scientific and methodological activities. The results of research have been published in a large number of journal articles, monographs, methodological recommendations for doctors and students, and patents for inventions. The department successfully defends candidate and doctoral dissertations.

The main scientific topic of the department's work is "New technologies in surgical gastroenterology."

The following research works are being carried out and completed on the main scientific topics: "Development of minimally invasive surgical interventions using low temperatures in the treatment of patients with cholelithiasis and gastric and duodenal ulcers", "New technologies in the complex treatment of diabetes mellitus and its complications", "Complex treatment of patients with colon and rectal cancer", "Study of the action of physical methods and the morphofunctional state of vessels, tissues of the stomach, small and large intestines during their dissection and coagulation in gastrointestinal surgery", "Development of minimally invasive methods for the treatment of fluid formations of parenchymal organs and the abdominal cavity in planned and emergency surgery", "Study of the features and optimization of splenectomy in the treatment of hematological patients", "Study of the features of inflammation and the course of the reparative process in surgical pathology depending on the etiological factor and development of methods for correcting complications using minimally invasive surgical technologies."

The department's staff are full members of Ukrainian and many international associations.

The following disciplines are taught to students at the department: "Industrial medical practice in the field of Surgery", "Surgery, pediatric surgery (4,5, 6 years)", "Traumatology and orthopedics", "Fundamentals of ultrasound diagnostics in clinical medicine", "Thoraco-laparoscopic technologies in surgery". Students improve their knowledge of surgery in the surgical circle, on the basis of the simulation center of the V.N. Karazin KhNU, giving reports at conferences of various levels, taking prize places.

The educational process uses clinical and diagnostic departments of the clinical base, which is the Kharkiv Clinical Hospital No. 2 of branch "Healthcare center" JSC "Ukrainian Railways".