The Faculty of Medicine provides a 6 year curriculum for becoming a physician with the opportunity to gain Doctor of Medicine degree. The medium of instruction is English.
The course is intended for students with a particular enthusiasm for the science that supports medicine and its continuing advancement. The Ministry of education and Ministry of Public health, Ukraine approved the curriculum of the medical facultySeveral departments have grown into a studying-scientific complex with its traditions. It includes 6 buildings. About 80% of lecturers have scientific degrees. 18 Doctors of Medical Sciences and Professors work at 21 departments, including 65 Candidates (more than 30 Assistant Professors). Foreign methods are used in studying. There are departments of clinical type in 25 region medicine centres.
There are 9 computer classes at the departments. 2 laboratories provide various complicated investigations.
Foreigners learn in group of seven eight students along with local students. The second year students attend their clinical studies where they can gain experience in nursing the patients. Clinical subjects are taught beginning from the third year of study. Students can study any topic of interest and to raise their of knowledge in the departments. All six years of the program are important and all must be passed successfully before students are permitted to graduate.
The number of students is about 1000, including 100 foreign students from the Middle East and Africa. The students are also provided with library, canteen, gymnasium, cafe, stadium, and club. The students may also use the university library, Internet, a swimming-pool, sport complex, resort camps in Sumy and Gurzuf.
The students often take part in Ukrainian student Olympiads where they take the first praises. Among the students there are grant-aid students of Soros fund and the National academy of science of Ukraine.
Post-graduate and clinical studies are also available.The students may get the second higher education at the SSU (economics, management, law, translation, and computer sciences). here is a wide range of specialisation available in the public and private sectors, involving research, academic medicine, public health, clinical medicine and other areas. Specialties include Cardiology, Oncology, Pediatrics, Psychological Medicine, Surgery, Pathology, Public Health, General Practice and many others. Most doctors complete postgraduate training in their chosen specialty.
There are also departments of extreme and military medicine. Some new specialities will appear in future.
