Department of Internal Medicine with a course in psychiatry and narcology

POSTRELKO VALENTYN MYKHAYLOVYCH – head of the department

Doctor of Medical Sciences.

St. Kharkiv highway, 121

Teaching staff

1. Internal medicine
2. Internal medicine (including endocrinology)
3. Industrial medical practice
4. Patient care (practice)
5. Dermatology, venereology
6. Emergency and urgent medical care
7. General practice (family medicine)
8. Infectious diseases
9. Clinical immunology and allergology
10. Clinical immunology
11. Clinical pharmacology
12. Medical psychology
13. Elective course: Organizational Basics of Family Medicine
14. Occupational diseases
15. Psychiatry, narcology
16. Propaedeutics of internal medicine
17. Training of reserve officers of the field of knowledge “Health care”. Specialty “Medicine”
18. Training of reserve officers in the field of knowledge “Health care”. Specialty “Dentistry”
19. Radiology
20. Radiation medicine
21. Nursing Practice
22. Physical rehabilitation, sports medicine
23. Physiology

The main directions of the department’s activity include educational, scientific, methodical, treatment-diagnostic, and advisory work.

The scientific direction of the department includes the development and implementation of modern aspects of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the endocrine system, chronic liver diseases, including non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, chronic cholecystitis, chronic intestinal diseases, rheumatic and cardiovascular diseases, as well as concomitant pathology. Scientific and educational activities are closely related to methodical work – preparation and publication of monographs, textbooks, methodological recommendations on internal medicine, and current problems of gastroenterology, endocrinology, pulmonology, cardiology, and rheumatology.

The department participates in conducting international research on the effectiveness and safety of medicinal products. Together with the staff of the departments of endocrinology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, and cardiology, conferences and methodical meetings, open practical classes and lectures, and cardiologist days are held for cardiologists, and family doctors of the city and region.

The department provides training for students of the 4th, 5th, and 6th years of the medical faculty in the following disciplines: “Internal medicine”, “Occupational diseases”, “Radiation medicine”, “Clinical immunology, and allergology” and students of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years of the dental faculty in “Propaedeutics of internal medicine” and “Internal medicine”. At the department, doctors are trained in pre-certification cycles, cycles of specialization, internship, and thematic improvement in the specialties “Therapy”, “Cardiology”, “Functional diagnostics”, “Gastroenterology”, “Endocrinology”, “Clinical immunology and allergology”, “Current issues of cardiology “, “Actual issues of therapy”.

The pedagogical process is conducted in accordance with the standard curricula and programs approved by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. The department is fully equipped with methodological instructions and recommendations for students, doctors, and teachers. Modern simulators, medical equipment, and computer tools are used in the educational process.

Medical and advisory work is carried out by highly qualified specialists — doctors and candidates of medical sciences, doctors of the highest and first category.

The scientific direction of the department consists of the development and implementation of modern aspects of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of comorbid pathology of internal diseases, namely cardiovascular, rheumatological, endocrine, allergic diseases, pathology of the gastrointestinal tract, and problems related to immune disorders.

Scientific and practical conferences are organized and held at the department, and a student scientific society works.

Postrelko Valentyn Mykhaylovych

He was born in Kyiv, into a family of employees, and he chose his path in medicine not by chance: his grandmother and mother were doctors, and soon his family will celebrate 100 years of devoted service to people in the medical field!

In 1967, V. M. Postrelko entered the Kyiv Medical School No. 2, and from March 1970 he began working at the Kyiv Psychiatric Hospital. In May of the same year, he was drafted into the army, where he served as a sanitary instructor and chief of the pharmacy of the air defense battalion.

In 1972, Valentin Mykhailovych continued his studies at the Kuibyshev Medical Institute. It was there, in Russia, that as a student he could observe the problems that drew his attention to narcology. In 1979, the young doctor returned to Ukraine, started a family, and initially found a job as a doctor in the medical center of the Kyiv railway station. However, in July 1980, V. M. Postrelko returned to psychiatry: he worked as a resident of the Kyiv Regional Psychiatric Hospital No. 1 in department No. 5, where H. M. Zilberblat was the head at that time. He combined his work in the hospital with shifts in our emergency psychiatric care.

In 1981, he specialized in “Psychiatry” at the Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education in the department headed by Professor N. I. Streltsova.

In the same year, he began to work on the development and introduction of enteral sorbent materials into the practice of narcology. In 1982, the first public scientific speech of a young doctor took place at the All-Union conference on sorption materials in Kharkiv. It was there that he met Professor I. K. Sosin, who offered scientific guidance, and in 1990 V. M. Postrelko successfully defended his candidate’s thesis on the topic: “Treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome by the enteral sorbent method.”

Since 1986, Valentin Mykhailovych, as a narcologist, took an active part in the liquidation of the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, since May 2 he repeatedly visited the station to help patients who suffered not only from radiation but also from excessive doses of alcohol. Since 1990, he has been actively working on his doctoral dissertation, which he successfully defended in 2010 on the topic: “Alcohol dependence syndrome of participants in the liquidation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: clinic, diagnosis, therapy”, and his scientific advisors were the famous professors K. M. Loganovsky and V. O. Buzunov.

As a scientist, V. M. Postrelko has 30 years of experience in the system of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: first, it was the Institute of Sorption and Problems of Endoecology, and since 2011, the Institute of Surface Chemistry named after O. O. Chuyk, where he actively continues to work on the development and implementation of new sorption materials. He is the author of more than 100 publications, including articles, textbooks, a monograph, 10 inventions, and copyright certificates.

Practical classes at the Department of Internal Medicine with a course in endocrinology.