Zaporizhzhia State Medical University

ZSMU is a self-governing, modern, multiprofile higher educational
institution with the long history going back to the Higher Women Courses
organized in Odessa in 1903. In 1921 the Courses were
reorganized into the Chemical-Pharmaceutical Institute.

In 1959 it was transferred from Odessa to Zaporizhzhia.
In 1994 it got the status of Zaporizhzhia State Medical
University and the IV-th (the top) level of accreditation.

The main objective of the University is training of highly-
qualified specialists for practical medicine and phar-
macy, carrying out scientific researches.





Yuriy Mykhailovych Kolesnyk, M.D.,
Ph.D., Doctor of Science (Medicine),
Professor, is the Rector of Zaporizhzhia
State Medical University, Honorary
Scientist and Engineering Worker of
Ukraine, a well-known scientist in
pathological physiology, a founder of
the pathological physiology school
recognized in Ukraine and abroad.

Yuriy Kolesnyk is the author of more than
400 scientific works, 3 monographs and
32 patents of Ukraine.

ZSMU has gained authority and recognition by training foreign citizens
from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, USA and Canada for more than
40 years. More than 15000 specialists have got medical and pharmaceuti-
cal education and are working now in almost 100 countries of the world,
taking up high positions in the public health systems of their countries.

At present about 13000 students, PhD students and listeners are being
trained at the University. In the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 3004
foreign students among them from 39 countries. In the same academic
year, 972 foreign citizens enrolled at the University, including 225 people –
in the International Faculty No.1 (Preparatory Faculty) and 747 people – in
the International Faculty No.2. At the same time, 74 foreign citizens studied
at the Faculty of Post-
graduate Education.

Despite the difficult
period of COVID-19
pandemic, 263 foreign
students successfully
completed the 2019-2020
academic year with the
help of distance
education.

The number of countries from which students came to study in the 2019-
2020 academic year is 24. The majority of newly arrived students are from
India and Morocco.

We currently teach students from such countries as India, Morocco, Bul-
garia, Nigeria, Ecuador, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Ghana, Zimba-
bwe, the United Kingdom, Jordan, Colombia, Lebanon, Syria, Azerbaijan,
Algeria, Iraq, Namibia, Russia, Turkey, Zambia, Madagascar, Germany, An-
gola, Israel, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, the USA, Tanzania, Spain, Canada,
Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Maldives, Pakistan, Palestine, Tajikistan, Uganda.

In the 2019-2020 academic year, the university enrolled 259 foreign stu-
dents from the European region and 110 students from the CIS countries. In
the same academic year, 257 foreign citizens studied at the extramural
department of the University.

A plan to teach students from Latin America is being implemented. In the
2019-2020 academic year, 140 people from Latin America studied at the
University.

There are eight faculties in the structure of the University: Medical Faculties
No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, two Pharmaceutical Faculties (full-time and extra-
mural forms of education), International Faculty No. 1 (Preparatory Facul-
ty), International Faculty No. 2, Faculty of Postgraduate Education.

It is worth noting that after
9th grade pupils can enter
the Medical College of
ZSMU and get a second-
ary education with the
profession of nurse or phar-
macist. After that, they
have a right to enter ZSMU
for the second year of
higher education study in
the specialties "Medicine",
"Pediatrics", as well as in the specialties "Pharmacy. Industrial Pharmacy"
and "Technology of Perfume-Cosmetic Preparations". The college has 33
classrooms, 13 laboratories, as well as a Training Center for the specialty
"Nursing". In addition, the College has a modern computer class with Inter-
net access. Clinical training rooms are located on practical bases in medi-
cal institutions of the city. All training facilities are provided with the neces-
sary equipment, devices and medical instruments and materials.

Regarding the system of training at the University, it includes premedical,
undergraduate and postgraduate periods of study.

Foreign citizens who wish to study in Ukrainian are to have premedical
training at the International Faculty No.1 (preparatory faculty for foreign
citizens) which is the oldest one in the countries of CIS. It is a center of for-
eign students’ training for further study in higher educational institutions of
Ukraine. After finishing the International Faculty No.1 and passing entrance
exams foreign citizens can continue their studies in Ukrainian at the Inter-
national Faculty No. 2.

Classes for junior students are
held at the theoretical depart-
ments in educational buildings on
the territory of the student cam-
pus. Senior students study at the
departments of the medical pro-
file in 34 clinics, 11 interregional
and regional specialized medical
centers.

The training of foreign stu-
dents is carried out at the
International Faculty No. 2
in the following specialties:

 Medicine. MD. Period of
study is 6 years.

 Dentistry. MD. Period of
study is 5 years.

 Pediatrics. MD. Period of
study is 6 years.

 Pharmacy. Industrial Pharmacy. Master of Pharmacy. Period of study is
5 years.

 Technology of Perfume-Cosmetic Preparations. Master of Pharmacy.
Period of study is 5 years.

Post-diploma education includes
training in the internship, training
for Master's degree, clinical
residency, postgraduate courses
in 27 medical specialties and
refresher courses for doctors and
pharmacists.

The teaching staff of Zaporizhzhia
State Medical University is one of
the most experienced among the teaching staffs of the higher
educational institutions of Ukraine. More than 815 scientific and
pedagogical workers, about 485 Candidates of Science, 134 Doctors of
Science, 247 Associate
Professors, 93 Professors, the
Academicians of Native
Academies, Honorary workers
of science and engineering,
State Prize Winners are
engaged in pedagogical and
scientific-research work at the
61 departments of the
University.

The scientific schools of the University are well known outside Ukraine.

Cardiological, surgery, pharma-
ceutical schools are among
them. There are the cardiology
school of Academician of the
Ukrainian National Academy of
Sciences, Doctor of medical
science, Professor Anatolii Visir,
the pharmaceutical school of
Professor Ivan Mazur, the surgery
school of Honorary worker of
science and engineering,
Professor Oleksandr Nikonenko.

For the first time in Ukraine the specialists of this school have performed the
transplantations of heart, liver, kidney and pancreas. More than 500
transplantations have been performed there.

The first domestic endoprosthesis of the knee
joint named "Motor Sich EPK-1" was developed
at the ZSMU.

For the first time in Ukraine a special method
was developed to restore the natural shapes
and functions of the jaw with the help of
individualized jaw implants made of titanium
alloys, developed according to the parameters of the patient's computed
tomography performed before the operation.

The scientists of the
pharmaceutical school
have worked out more
than 10 preparations,
namely "Tiotriazolin",
"Tiocetam", "Tiodaron",
"Levotyl", "Amiotryl",
"Indotryl" and "Karbatryl".
They are widely used now
in many countries abroad.



In June 2020 Zaporizhzhia State Medical University received a certificate of
conformity of the quality management system with the requirements of
DSTU ISO 9001:2015 (ISO 9001:2015, IDT), registered in the Registry of
Certification System "ROSUKRSERT" № 8O059-3994-20.

The University has its own scientific editions: "Zaporozhye Medical Journal",
the scientific practical journal "Pathology" and the collection of scientific
works "Actual Problems of Medical and Pharmaceutical Science". The first
two are included to scientific service "Web of Science".

Material and technical facilities are enriched with brand new equipment
for education and scientific work. And if the prestige of the
University arises from its own training facilities, it should be noted that ZSMU
has its own Medical Educational and Scientific Center "University Clinic",
where practical classes are held and medical care is provided.

The introduction of computer technologies into the teaching and studying
process, scientific research and management is one of the priority-driven
University's activities. 62 computer classrooms and almost 2000 PCs provide
education of students with academic curricula based on multimedia
technologies and test control in the main disciplines. There is a Centre of
Telemedicine and Distance Learning at the University which provides the
participation in international scientific videoconferences, organization of
distance refresher courses for University teaching staff on the EDX and
Moodle platforms, training of Pharmaceutical Faculty students of extramu-
ral form.

Unfortunately, due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, all educa-
tional institutions in the country were forced to switch from the usual class-
room training to distance mode of education. Despite such a force
majeure situation, ZSMU was ready for a new mode of work, because dis-
tance education technologies have been used at the University for over
15 years, and since 2016 one of the priorities of educational activities has
been the introduction of the concept of distance education. Recently,
more than 600 online courses in various fields of study have been created.

In addition, the developed ma-
terial and technical facilities, in-
frastructure of computer classes
and laboratories as well as the
readiness of the teaching staff to
work with IT technologies al-
lowed to carry out such a reform
without any difficulties. During
the quarantine period from March 2020 until the end of the academic
year, an information environment was created for each discipline, which
was supported by numerous cloud services. The chosen model of educa-
tion proved its effectiveness at the end of the academic year, when non-
graduate students successfully passed the summer session, and graduate
students were good at the final exams.

In addition, the Rector of the University decided to organize the prepara-
tory stage of the distance education for foreign applicants. During the
summer holidays, the university project "Distance Learning in the Foreign
Citizens Training Center" was implemented, which aimed to acquaint
entrants, in particular Moroccans, with the University in general and the
language of instruction in particular: the target audience was offered
photos and videos with useful information, introductory mini-online course
in the Ukrainian language, which could be registered and passed by
anyone. In total, more than a thousand participants were interested in the
project page.

In summer, 2020, distance classes were held for 680 Indian students with
professors from India. Thus, students were prepared to take exams at the
Medical Council of India. Teleconferences on various aspects of medicine
are also held with colleagues from European countries.

For conducting classes remotely in ZSMU, 25 classrooms were reorganized
into online lecture-rooms, provided with the latest devices and
equipment. And starting from the 2020-2021 academic year, both dis-
tance and classroom education has been introduced.

Currently, all the departments of the University are supplied with modern
devices and equipment. The University's local computer network is con-
stantly expanding and improving.

In addition, on the basis of the ZSMU library students have access to the
database "eBook Clinical Collection" provided by EBSCO Host - a data-
base specially designed for medical universities, clinics, biomedical librar-
ies and which contains more than 2900 selected books of high profession-
al level in Medicine, Nursing, Health, and General Practice, and the USMLE
Test Database Information System from MtdIQ Learning, which allows stu-
dents to use American Test Databases to prepare for KROK, the Interna-
tional Medical Exam.

The library receives free access to the EBSCO database, Web of Science
and Scopus. Students have access to the full-text resources of the Springer
Link portal - Springer magazines (1997-2020) and Springer e-books (2017).

In total, ZSMU has at its disposal 400 portable USB-media, which contain
multimedia courses from 16 general theoretical and clinical disciplines,
prepared by specialists of the publishing house "Elsevier". At the same time,
eight separate electronic multimedia courses in various medical disciplines
have been created. At the same time, ZSMU has access to a high-quality
educational resource from the British Medical Journal - BMJ Learning,
which includes hundreds of accredited, peer-reviewed training modules
that contain text, video and audio materials.

It is worth noting
that simulation
training classes
were created and
equipped with
modern simulators
at the University
departments.

In addition, at the
end of 2018, a new
modern training
center was created
at ZSMU — the Interdepartmental Training Center — which allows to
increase the efficiency and quality of student training. This is a high-tech
center equipped with advanced equipment, modern dummies,
interactive panels, simulators and other training facilities for over
UAH 22 million, thanks to which it is possible to fully reconstruct real clinical
cases and situations in real-time. The Training center consists of several
departments that are similar to the real hospital department.

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is equipped as a delivery
room. Noelle is the main dummy of the room. It is a simulator of the birth
process that reconstructs the physiological and pathological course of
events, fetus location during the birth process. There is also a realistic ab-
dominal simulator with the help of that student, who could practice Leo-
pold's maneuvers. For students training also are used phantoms for prac-

ticing clinical exami-
nation of a lacteal
gland in normal and
pathological condi-
tions, and bimanual
gynecological ex-
amination. Such a
way students learn
how to cope with
challenges that they
will meet in further
professional life.

The Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology is equipped with
mannequins for children of all ages: from infants to adolescents, designed
to practice methods of physical examination in childhood and the
reproduction of emergencies in pediatric practice. The phantoms of
children's arms and legs available in this Department are intended for
testing the technique of
measuring blood
pressure, performing
injections and catheteri-
zation of peripheral
vessels. The Neonatology
Department borders on
the Department of
Obstetrics, which creates
realistic conditions for
multidisciplinary training.

The Resuscitation Depart-
ment was made for helping
students to master skills for
emergency help It is
equipped with realistic
dummies “Stat Manikin”,
Code Blue III Adult and
Simon. They all are aimed
at checking if students
learned well the helping
procedure for basic and
extended resuscitation. It also helps them to train actions procedure for
different accidents, and learn how to make a right and urgent decision in
stressful situations. With such equipment students could build up the pulse
at the central vein, take one's arterial blood pressure, conduct virtual
monitoring of patients' organs, conduct ECG recording, conduct defibrilla-
tion and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Students could re-try and
re-practice their skills at dummies and other equipment to be prepared for
the treatment of a real patient in practice.

The Inpatient Unit Simulating Department was designed for family
physicians training. At this department hi-fidelity dummies as Susie and
Trauma Man are used. The style of the department is maximally close to
the interior of the hospital ward. The dummies can complain, breathe,
cough, sweat, and cry. With such simulators, students can learn how to
diagnose a blue skin, how to determine pupillary reaction, how to

conduct auscultation of
the heart, lungs, and
abdomen, build up the
pulse at central vein, take
one's arterial blood
pressure, conduct virtual
monitoring of patients
organs, conduct ECG
recording, and mastering
emergency aid pro-
cedure.

The Interdepartmental Training Center also includes the Emergency Medi-
cine Department. Students learn how to help injured people in extreme cir-
cumstances. Here we can see a simulator of a car in an accident. With
this simulator, further doctors train to evacuate injured people in the cor-
rect order, stop bleeding, immobilize a broken limb or spine, to anesthetize
patients and to calm relatives. The realistic environment of the room help
to prepare students for work under real circumstances.

Another advantage of
our Training Center is a
so-called 3D room that
reconstructs the
realistic atmosphere of
natural disaster,
catastrophe, tactical
operations. The room is
equipped with video
projection and audio
accompaniment that
create a sense of
presence at the epicenter of the fire, hurricane, earthquake, terrorist at-
tack and battlefield. To prepare students for a real situation we also
equipped this part of the Center with dummies with burns, gunshot
wounds, mine-blast traumas, and severed limbs.

The Functional Diagnostics Department is equipped with professional
medical machines used in real hospitals. Students work with such
equipment as ultrasound scanners Esaote MyLab 40 and CBit 8,
electroencephalograph Neurocom, Spirograph Spirolab III,
electrocardiographs Biomed BE600, combined daily ECG monitors and
device for arterial pressure monitoring Cardiosense AD. All these machines
are designed for conducting a wide range of examinations for adults and
children. We give our
students the oppor-
tunity to work with
real patients using
real medical equip-
ment. Thanks to that
they could gain
valuable clinical
experience even at
the pregraduate
stage of the study.

The Training Center is also supplied with a virtual patient simulator called
Body Interact. Body Interact can recreate a variety of scenarios from the

Clinic of Internal
Medicine, Pediat-
rics, Surgery,
Obstetrics, and
Emergency.

The technology al-
lows you to com-
municate with a
virtual patient,
perform a physical
examination or the
necessary labora-
tory and instrumental tests, establish a diagnosis and prescribe treatment,
choose the dosage of the drug based on the patient's body height and
weight. In this case, the clinical condition of the virtual patient changes
depending on the help provided. Therefore, students have a unique op-
portunity to understand the correctness of their actions and, after analyz-
ing the mistakes made, to draw conclusions for the future.

The separate departments of the Training Center are Dental Training Cen-
ter and Dental Training Class, which are equipped with modern dental
equipment and simulators.





At the Department of Anatomy and Operative Surgery, medical students
study using the Anatomage anatomical table. It is a 3D visualization sys-
tem that allows you to study in detail the human anatomy to the cellular
level.

Moreover, a specialized Training Center in Cosmetology, a Training
Pharmacy, as well as
several media centers
provide mastering
practical skills, abilities
and knowledge,
thanks to technology
based on realistic
modeling and simula-
tion of the clinical situ-
ation using modern
training equipment.

Simulation training promote professional and teamwork skills development.
The main goal of the Interdepartmental Training Center is to recreate a re-
al clinical environment and conditions for preparing students for profes-
sional routine.













In the 2015-2016 academic year, ZSMU introduced an automated control
system (ASU) of the educational process — the so-called "electronic
journal", which allowed to collect, analyze and receive online all the
information about each student.

To ensure the work of the ASU, the University has significantly updated all
the computer equipment, as each of the 61 departments has a separate
computer and other multifunctional devices for the purpose of keeping
this "electronic journal".

Since February 2017, parents have been able to find out the academic
performance of a particular student. The technical capabilities of the ASU
allowed to satisfy the request of the Student Council of ZSMU and create
another functionality in the Electronic Journal, which is used at the
University in order to monitor and analyze academic performance and
lecture attendance. Each student can view only their personal profile in
the journal.

The electronic journal operates in three languages — Ukrainian, Russian
and English, and is available at: http://asu.zsmu.zp.ua.

ZSMU actively cooperates with such international associations as
International Association for Medical Education (AMEE), Association of
Medical Schools in Europe (AMSE), European Association for International
Education (EAIE), and is a member of many other international associa-
tions, e.g. European Pharmaceutical Students´ Association (EPSA),
European Medical Students´ Association (EMSA), Student National Medical
Association (SNMA), and Ukrainian Medical Students´ Association (UMSA).

In 2015, ZSMU became a member of ORPHEUS (Organisation for PhD
Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System)
and has participated in an international project to train PhD students.

In September 2018, the University joined The Magna Charta Universitatum,
which supports academic freedoms and institutional autonomy. Today it
includes 904 universities from 88 countries of the world. Since 2019, the Uni-
versity has given recommendations to other educational institutions of
Ukraine on how to sign the Charta.

In the 2019-2020 academic year, our students took part in the autumn as-
semblies of Ukrainian and international associations in Croatia, Athens,
Ivano-Frankivsk.

An exchange agreement was also signed with the Faculty of Pharmacy of
Barcelona (Spain).

In March 2020, ZSMU became a member of the National Information Cen-
ter of Academic Mobility ENIC UKRAINE — UaReNet. In July 2020, the Uni-
versity joined the International Association of Dental Studens (IADS).

ZSMU always expands international cooperation with the world's leading
universities.

The geography of partner universities is represented by neighboring coun-
tries and beyond, including institutions in Colombia, Vietnam, Brazil, China
and Canada. Thanks to this cooperation students and young researchers
can take part in academic exchanges with partner universities. Today
there are 54 agreements on cooperation with other foreign universities
and research institutions, 3 of which were signed in the 2019-2020 aca-
demic year and 2 agreements were signed in the 2020-2021 academic
year. These partner institutions are Wiener Privatklinik Hospital, Corin-Austria
GmbH, Campus 21, Medical University of Vienna (Austria), Belarusian State
Medical University, Vitebsk State Medical University, Grodno State Medical
University (Belarus), Medical University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), St. George's,
University of London (UK), Yerevan Medical Institute after Mehrabyan
(Armenia), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), David Tvildiani Med-
ical University, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Tbilisi State Medical University,
Kutaisi University (Georgia), Tallinn Health Care College (Estonia), NEO Insti-
tute of Medical Sciences and Technologies (India), West Kazakhstan Ma-
rat Ospanov State Medical University, Astana Medical University, Karagan-
da Medical University (Kazakhstan), Canadian College of English Lan-
guage (Canada), University of Nicosia (Cyprus), Riga Stradiņš University
(Latvia), Vilnius University, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), PUE Inter-
national Corp. (Panama), Medical University of Bialystok, Wroclaw Medical
University (Poland), National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health
(USA), Ondokuz Mayıs University, MediTürk Nilüfer – Bursa, Ankara University
(Turkey), Andijan State Medical Institute (Uzbekistan), Mérieux Foundation
(France), University of Ostrava, Palacký University in Olomouc, Technical
University of Liberec, (Czech Republic), Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Amazonas State University (Brazil), Central Institute of Science and Tech-
nology (Sri Lanka), Hanoi Medical University, Hue University of Medicine
and Pharmacy (Vietnam), and others.

Based on the results of a survey conducted among foreign students, it was
decided to develop joint study programs and a dual diploma. In 2020,
agreements were signed with educational institutions in Canada, Arme-
nia, Lithuania, Uzbekistan and India in order for getting a dual diploma.
Training will include the use of distance technology.

Leading scholars from India and European countries, including Germany,
Estonia, etc., are often invited to give lectures to domestic and foreign stu-
dents. Thus, foreign specialists help students prepare for taking exams.

In October 2019, for the first time, professors from Poland and Sweden
were invited to the University to give lectures with simultaneous translation
on current trends in implantology and plastic surgery.

Among the latest visits (November 2019) is the visit of Dr. Roksoliana Hor-
bova, who is the Vice President of the World federation of Ukrainian medi-
cal societies, which gives us the opportunity to hope for further fruitful co-
operation.

In 2018-2020, student exchanges were made with 8 partner universities. 44
ZSMU students studied and practiced medicine, pediatrics and pharmacy
in Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Poland, Turkey and the Czech Republic. In
2019, 5 students were exchanged at Grodno State Medical University, 10
at Vitebsk State Medical University, 6 students at Medical University of Plov-
div, 6 students at Tbilisi State Medical University, 10 students at Wroclaw
Medical University, 6 students at Medical University of Bialystok, 1 student
at the Ondokuz Mayıs University, 5 students at the Palacký University in Olo-
mouc. As well as 4 students had internships in other medical institutions
around the world (Akdeniz University, Turkey - 1, Nicosia Polyclinic, Cyprus -
1, Klodzko Clinic, Poland - 1, within the project "International Practice" of
the European Foundation for Development of Medicine and Education
EUROMED, Poland - 1).

As part of the Erasmus + program. KA1 Academic mobility in the 2019-2020
academic year ZSMU had exchanges with the Utena University of Applied
Sciences, Utena, Lithuania (2 representatives from the Utena University,
November 2019); with Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey (1 repre-
sentative from ZSMU, November 2019); with Tallinn Health Care College,
Estonia (2 representatives from ZSMU, November 2019). In February 2020,
Tallinn Health Care College also invited a third-year student of our Medical
Faculty No.3 within the student academic mobility program.

In February 2020, representatives of The Fulbright Program in Ukraine to-
gether with a student from the USA visited ZSMU with an educational mis-
sion.

Also in the 2019-2020 academic year, delegations from our University visit-
ed Wroclaw Medical University in Poland and Hubei University of Medicine
in China.

In spring, 2021, it is planned to have an exchange of 12 second-year stu-
dents with Bukovinian State Medical University under the EU-funded House
of Europe Student Academic Mobility (SAM) grant, which was won in May
2020. At the same time, the student exchange with the Ondokuz Mayıs
University is planned, which gives ZSMU students to have an internship in
the picturesque city of Samsun.

ZSMU has been actively participating in international projects for 10 years.

From 2012 to 2016 the University was a participant in the TEMPUS IV project
"Creation of an Interregional Network of National Medical Education Cen-
ters, the main activity of which is the introduction of problem-oriented
learning on the use of virtual patients", funded by the European Union.

The University received about € 200,000, developed a SharePoint server
based on cloud technologies and the OpenLabyrinth tool environment in
accordance with the project program and created 53 cases of problem-
oriented student learning.

Under the Erasmus+ programs, a project in which ZSMU participates as a
partner was recommended for EU funding in 2015. The official website
http://www.st-gateukr.eu contains information about ZSMU and present
our University as a potential partner for cooperative participation in inter-
national projects.

During 2015-2019, the University participated in the project TAME: Training
against medical error http://www.tame-project.org/.

The aim of the project was to introduce innovative methods of pedagogy
to allow students to learn from medical errors.

The total grant budget was € 1,086,285, incl. for ZSMU - 111,090 euros,
which is approximately UAH 3,110,520.

During the project, 10 business trips to the Czech Republic, Great Britain,
Vietnam and Kazakhstan took place.

During the project, ZSMU staff adapted 6 pediatric cases and created 6
cases on surgery based on the instrumental environment "OpenLabyrinth",
active students created 2 more cases for problem-oriented learning with
medical errors.

From 2014 to 2016, the Department of Tuberculosis and Pulmonology was
implementing the project "Evaluation of the implementation of Geno-
TypeMTBDRplus for early diagnosis of multidrug-resistant forms of tuberculo-
sis in Zaporozhye region, Ukraine" under the program "Strengthening the
transversal fight of health actors tuberculosis and multi-drug resistance in
the Zaporozhye region, Ukraine (SHAFTB-UA)”. During this period, Geno-
TypeMTBDRplus laboratory equipment and reagents were obtained.

In the period 2016-2018, ZSMU participated in the project for Support of HE
in Ukraine with Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. The aim of
the project was to assist Ukrainian universities in transforming and creating
curricula, supporting university development, university self-government
and democratic principles in its governance, and also improving interna-
tional exchanges for Ukrainian students.

In the same years, within the partnership with the Regional Training Center
in health research (Kazakhstan), the project "New approaches to the di-
agnosis of major clinical forms of enterovirus infection in children and
adults" was implemented focusing on the implementation of programs to
combat infectious diseases.

During the project period, five business trips were made within Ukraine.

Since 2019, ZSMU is a participant in the cardiology project "DEEP-RAFT:
Doctors Education, Empowerment of Patients, Regarding Atrial Fibrillation
and venous Thromboembolism" funded by American pharmaceutical
company Pfizer Inc. In the 2019-2020 academic year, the project held
conferences for patients with AF and VTE of the lower extremities. In 2020,
it is planned to hold an online conference for doctors in AF and VTE.

In the 2019-2020 academic year, the University participated in the prepa-
ration of 3 applications for grants to Erasmus+, 1 application for the inter-
national program Horizon 2020 for the manufacture and use of individual-
ized prostheses with the use of modern technologies, prepared applica-
tions for Fulbright exchange programs and 2 programs from the Embassy
of Japan in Ukraine. There are also 2 applications for an individual grant
from Pfizer.

Foreign senior students of medical and pharmaceutical faculties, trainees
and clinical residents are involved in scientific and practical conferences,
symposia, scientific seminars held within and outside Ukraine, including the
Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, etc.

ZSMU has its own University Clinic, where 9 departments of ZSMU are locat-
ed. It has the most modern diagnostic equipment that provides highly
qualified consultative help and treatment. The Clinic includes a hospital
for 160 beds, a polyclinic, a Consultative Medical and Diagnostic Center,
6 specialized medical centers, a Department of Rehabilitation and Diag-
nostic, as well as diagnostic and pathohistological research laboratories.
The Clinic provides medical care to the population, training of workers,
research work, development, testing and implementation of medical
technologies.

The University has unique brand new equipment for basic and applied re-
search: computer tomographs, devices for ultrasonic diagnosis, angio-
graphic and endoscopic checkup, radioisotope diagnosis, modern X-ray
diagnostic equipment, digital fluorograph, etc.















In 2017, a new Indian Cultural
Center was opened on the
ground floor of the main build-
ing of the University, equipped
with modern devices and a
conference hall. The Center
tells its visitors about traditions
and culture of India.

Since 2018, the Moroccan Culture Center has also been operating.

ZSMU looks like a student campus on the picturesque bank of the Dnipro
River, in the center of one of the largest administrative, industrial and cul-
tural cities of the South-Eastern part of Ukraine. The campus has five aca-
demic buildings, five hostels, library with reading halls and computer
rooms, Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Prevention, sports center,
canteens and cafes, including an Indian cafe and Recipe cafe, as well as
a bank.