Web site: http://www-fundmed.univer.kharkov.ua/

The School provides training in Medical Practice licensing graduates as doctors. After completing the internship course all graduates can be employed at various establishments of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine as specialities in all areas of medical practice with the exception of dentistry and hygiene. High theoretical and practical standards of training in the core Natural Science subjects enable the graduates to successfully combine medical practice and research, which is a widely spread practice in the western world at present.

The roots of the School can be traced back to 1805, when the Section of Medical Sciences was one of the first four sections of the newly-born University.

The history of the School comprises two stages of development. The first stage continued up to 1920, when the University was re-structured and the School of Medicine was closed. The second stage started in 1992, when the Ministry of Education decreed to recommence training doctors at the University.

In March 1993 the School of Fundamental Medicine was opened at the University again. Annual enrollment for doctor training at the School amounts to 60 students, out of which 20 are enrolled in accordance with the state plan and the other 40 are admitted on the fee-paying basis.

The School employs 28 doctors of Medicine, 64 candidates of Medicine, and 32 instructors. At present 8 part-time (correspondence) postgraduate students attend postgraduate courses. The total enrollment of the School amounts to 400 students including 122 international students.

Training is provided at the facilities of the University Schools and the University Research Institutes of Laser Biology and Laser Medicine as well as at the facilities of the city medical institutions: the Research Institute of Children and Youth Health Protection; the Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics; Children's Clinical Hospital No. 1, Central Clinical Hospital No. 5, hospitals of the Dzerzhinsky district of Kharkiv, the Saltovsky Medical Centre, the Kharkiv Garrison Hospital and others. The University's cooperation with the Kharkiv Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education (Ministry of Health of Ukraine) has been most fruitful. The facilities of the Institute are used for clinical training of the future medical workers.

Apart from an increase in the classroom hours for fundamental training in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics and Computer Programming, and also the complete range of profession-oriented subjects, the School's training course presupposes specialization in Medical Psychology, Medical Biophysics, Medical Biomechanics, Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Genetics, Clinical Immunology, Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Physiology, Clinical Pathology and others.

Research work at the School is aimed at the most urgent issues of theoretical and clinical medicine. In its research, instruction and overall work the School enjoys the advantages of a classical university subdivision, where research is conducted in the multi-discipline context, e.g. medical archaeological research is performed in cooperation with historians; research of the biomechanics and autonomous nervous regulation of the blood flow is done together with mathematicians; organ-preserving surgical technologies are developed together with physicists, etc. Since 1995 the School has been publishing the "School of Fundamental Medicine Journal" in English.

The School has established a wide network of links with researchers and instructors of medical schools of the universities in Arizona and Alabama and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (the USA), Nuremberg University (Germany), Graz University (Austria), Erzurum University (Turkey) and others. The School annually organizes at least two international research conferences on various aspects of medicine. The School cooperates with the similar schools of Dnipropetrovsk and Moscow universities, numerous Ukrainian higher educational establishments and medical research institutes. The School's members are engaged in research work for long-term grants of the International Research Fund, NATO and other organizations.