publishing department; - historical and medical museum of the university. scientific divisions: - scientific and medical department ; with the sector of innovational development; - department of doctoral studies, postgraduate studies, master's studies and clinical residency; - department of metrological and technical support; - research laboratories (22); - vivarium. administrative and economic units: - rector's office; - personnel department; - planning and economic department; - accounting department; - chancellery; - archive; - civil defense headquarters; - department for occupational safety and health; - legal service; - economic division with departments of chief power engineer, chief mechanic, material and technical supply, utility department; - educational buildings (13); - hostels (5). other subdivisions of the university: - palace of culture and recreation "academichnyi"; - recreation center in repuzhyntsi village, zastavna district, chernivtsi region. some departments have the following subdivisions: - medical and psychological center (at the s. m. savenko department of nervous diseases, psychiatry and medical psychology); - sports club (at the department of disaster medicine, military medicine with a course of physical education and health); - educational and methodical center of newborn resuscitation and modern perinatal technologies (at the department of obstetrics, gynecology and perinatology). educational-recreational complex in the village of repuzhyntsi, zastavna district on the bank of the dniester river near the village of repuzhintsy, zastavnivsky district, chernivtsi region (70 km from the city of chernivtsi), there is a sports and recreation camp for students and university staff for 250 vacationers. the health camp was founded in 1958 on the initiative of the then head of the department of physical education konstantin vladimirovich mironov. for the first time, the camp accepted students and employees of the then chernivtsi medical institute on vacation in 1958. vacationers were placed only in tents provided by the military unit, with which the medical institute maintained close patronage relations. only the dining room was located in a wooden house. in the early 60s, at the initiative of the rector of the institute a. d. yukhimets, brick and wooden cottages, pavilions for board games, a summer theater, and sports grounds were built for vacationers of various types. in the 60s, the famous satirist people's artist of the ussr arkady raikin liked to relax in the institute's camp. currently, the recreation center "zdorovye"/»health», on the dniester river, with restored, overhauled, equipped with modern furniture cottages hospitably receive visitors — guests, students and employees of the university. traditionally, at the recreation center "zdorovye"/»health», the medical and psychological center of bukovinian state medical university conducts psychological intensive courses that invite everyone. the intensive courses feature the best ukrainian and foreign trainers, various areas of psychotherapy, trainings, psychological games, master classes. the place gives a proven opportunity to find friends, colleagues and partners, interesting and fun leisure time. organization of the educational process the main goal of educational and methodical work at the university is to create conditions that contribute to improving the efficiency and quality of the educational process. academic and methodological work is managed by the university's educational department . methodological work at the university is a set of measures aimed at: - providing the educational process with educational and methodological documentation; - improving the pedagogical skills of teachers, improving classroom and independent work of students; - improvement of all forms, types and methods of educational work at the university, taking into account the state and prospects for the development of medical organizations and institutions for which the university trains specialists. disciplines, courses at the university are taught in accordance with the working curricula of the disciplines. the content of work programs meets the requirements of educational and professional programs and standard training programs approved by the central methodological commission for higher medical education of the ministry of health of ukraine. the formed programs provide a systematic approach, in the process of which each discipline is studied not as an independent and independent one, but as part of a system aimed at training a specialist of a certain profile. end-to-end programs for mastering practical skills in all disciplines have been introduced into the educational process. the system of training specialists at the university meets the requirements of the current branch standards of higher education. taking into account the professional and active principle of organizing training at the university, the availability, creation and replication of textbooks, guidelines and textbooks plays an important role. the departments have prepared and published guidelines for practical classes and independent training of students with algorithms for consistent mastery of practical skills, knowledge, skills, training and teaching aids. training at bukovinian state medical university is carried out according to a credit-modular system, in accordance with the requirements of the bologna process. the credit-modular system for assessing students ' knowledge and skills has been applied for 6 years. the university has a mandatory system for monitoring the preparation of students and the quality of training (certification with test primary and exit levels, rating control). it includes: daily (test, oral, written, computer) control of the preparation of students of the academic group in each lesson (100%); boundary control of the assimilation of individual sections of the program; certification of students every month from the beginning of each semester with the determination of the average (rating) grade in each discipline; final test (exam) of preparation control. a mandatory element of training in clinical departments and conducting exams at them is the assessment of mastering practical skills and solving situational problems, which is regarded as an algorithm of a doctor's activity for a specific, specific situation and a specific sick person. the university departments have compiled software packages, test sets and questions of varying complexity that are used at different stages of monitoring student training, which are placed on the moodle distance learning server for ease of study. . scientific activity scientific publications bukovina medical bulletin problematics-promotion of achievements of medical science in ukraine in the fields of fundamental sciences, internal, pediatric and surgical diseases, obstetrics and gynecology, healthcare organization. address in scientific periodicals of ukraine scientific schools therapeutic school pediatric school surgical school pharmaceutical school outstanding scientists of the university boris radzikhovsky-ophthalmologist, professor at the chernivtsi medical institute since 1945. roman lev-professor, head of the department of hospital surgery. sergey savenko-neurologist, university professor since 1945 medical and preventive activity all practicals are held in classrooms and labs of the university, in therapeutic-prophylactic establishments and in sanitary-epidemiological stations of the town and region. powerful potential of the professional staff of clinical departments includes 42 professors, 48 doctors of medical science, 187 associate professors (with academic status) and 321 candidates of medical science. 166 workers of the staff have higher medical qualifying degree, 54 of them have obtained i category, 48 – ii category. 32 workers of the clinical departments of bsmu are non-staff specialists and work as consulting physicians of chernivtsi regional executive board. clinical departments of bsmu are located in 27 clinical centers: 17 therapeutic establishments of a regional subordinate and 10 – of a municipal one. according to their schedules, professors and associate professors make clinical ward rounds, consulting visits at polyclinics, examinations of patients in the inpatient departments of therapeutic-prophylactic establishments. a great deal of methodological organizing work is carried out: visit of therapeutic preventive establishments, review of the patients' histories, participation in the boards of experts and qualifying committee, conference conducting etc. considerable therapeutic-prophylactic work is held by teachers during summer practice. various and manifold therapeutic consulting activity in the system of bukovina practical health service is carried out by the assistants of clinical departments. except consultations this activity includes arrangement of all qualifying means for physicians of practical health service in the following spheres – subject mastering, reevaluating courses, lectures on actual topics, arrangement and conducting of science-practical conferences, working out of methodological recommendations, and expert evaluation of patients' management. the important part in cooperation of the university clinical workers and physicians of practical health service is devoted to consulting and science-methodological work in therapeutic-prophylactic establishments of health service. more than 30 establishments are used for students' medical practical work. among them there are military hospital a1028, ses of lviv railway, chernivtsi regional clinical hospital, chernivtsi regional children's clinical hospital n1, chernivtsi regional children's clinical hospital n2, emergency rescue clinical municipal hospital, regional children's clinical hospital, maternity home n1 and n2 of chernivtsi. some students have their practical training in the places of their residence. in order to improve their knowledge in appropriate specialty, students are suggested to master their practical skills in specialized pediatric, therapeutic and surgical departments which are located in basic clinical establishments (casualty department, anesthesiology and resuscitation unit and traumatological, neurosurgical, endocrine, neurological departments). modern methods of patient's examination are mastered by students in regional medical diagnostic centre of chernivtsi, rooms of endoscopy and ultrasonic investigation and in specialized x-ray departments. international activity the department of international contacts, created on october 29, 2003, by the rector's order on the basis of corresponding documents of the ministry of public health service, is involved in international contacts. the work of international department is managed by the pro-rector on scientific work and international contacts ivashchuk aleksander ivanovych. the activity of the university is directed to the development, extension and strengthening of international contacts and bsmu authority in the world cooperation. international cooperation constantly improves. bukovinian state medical university collaborates with: klagenfurt hospital (austria), belarusian state medical university (minsk), grodno state medical university, vitebsk state medical university (belarus), karlovy university, prague (czech republic), the university of montpellier (france), university of lubeck, karl-garus university of technology, dresden, humboldt university, berlin, university of konstanz, university of cologne, kuilnsky university, liverpool john moores university (great britain), akmolinsk state medical academy (kazakhstan), pedagogical state university, kyshyniv, mykola testemitsanu state medical and pharmaceutical university, kyshyniv, "shtefan chel mare" university, suchava, t.g.shevchenko prydniprovsky state university, tyraspol (moldova), lomonosov state university (moscow), russian state medical university, moscow, russian university of people's friendship, moscow, st.petersburg institute of bioregulation and gerontology, burdenko medical academy, sechenov moscow medical academy, urals state medical academy, yekaterinburg (russia), medical university (warsaw), university collegium medicum im. ludvika rydygiera, bydgoshch, the university of zheshov, jagiellonian university, krakov, the university of medical sciences, poznan, medical university, lublin (poland), "1 december 1918" university, alba iulia, university "babes-bolyai, cluj-napoca, university of medine and pharmacy "victor babes", timișoara (romania), alexander dubcek-university, trencin, pavol jozef safarik university, kosice (slovakiya), angelholm hospital (sweden), university of lucerne (switzerland), neurological hospital, usa utah valley state university, university of the state of new-york, olbani, king's university school of medicine, solomon islnds, medu international, inc." palo alto, california (usa). trips for bachelors, holders of master's degree, post-graduates are ensured by "druzi" association (ukraine-france) and the centre of international contacts, state of california (usa). every year students, new doctors and scientists of the university take part in international medical conferences, congresses, symposia and forums in the cities and towns of poland, united states, russia, germany, austria, sweden, etc. the number of foreign students from india, somali, nigeria, ghana, pakistan, ethiopia, sudan, usa and other countries, who study in bukovinian state medical university, increase from year to year. buildings and campuses the university has 13 academic buildings, a modern library, a university dental center, an educational and industrial pharmacy, a sports complex, the academic palace of culture and recreation, and the "zdorovye"/"health" recreation center. clinical departments are based in 27 medical, preventive and pharmacy institutions in chernivtsi, which are provided with modern equipment. educational laboratories, classrooms as well as their equipment meet a modern level and are provided with the necessary furniture, technical means in volumes and quantities that meet the requirements for organizing the educational process, scientific, medical and consulting work. material and technical base the material and technical base of the university allows to carry out the educational process, scientific and medical work at a modern level in accordance with the requirements of standards for training specialists and providing medical care. the university has 15 academic buildings, its clinical departments are based in 33 medical and preventive institutions in chernivtsi, which are provided with modern equipment. the total area of the premises is 65,553 m2, and the area of educational premises for the educational process is 26,694 m2. classrooms are provided with the appropriate amount of furniture, boards and other necessary equipment. educational premises where applicants for higher education are trained comply with existing construction and sanitary