About us

The Department of Emergency and Urgent Medical Care, Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Prosthetics was established in 2012.

Initially, it was called the Department of Anaesthesiology, Traumatology and Extreme Medical Care. By order No. 269 of 29 August 2013, the department changed its name to the Department of Emergency and Urgent Medical Care, Orthopaedics and Traumatology on 1 September 2013. Its founder and first head was Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Mykola Ivanovych Berezka.

In 2024, due to operational requirements, the department was renamed the Department of Emergency and Urgent Medical Care, Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Prosthetics.

From 2012 to 30 August 2025, the department was headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Mykola Ivanovych Berezka.

On 1 September 2025, the department was merged with the Department of Traumatology and Orthopaedics of Kharkiv National Medical University, which is the oldest in Ukraine and was founded in 1921. Its founder and first head was Prof. S.L. Tregubov, an outstanding scientist of his time. An exceptionally experienced person, he studied the organisation and implementation of the educational process in Western countries and transferred all the new and advanced ideas to the department he had organised. He published several fundamental works on bone and joint tuberculosis. In 1938, his textbook on traumatology and orthopaedics was published. After his death, the department was headed by his student, Associate Professor Ryumshina, and from 1962 to 1991, the department was headed by Honoured Worker of Ukraine, member of the International Association of Traumatologists and Orthopaedists, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor V.P. Trubnikov. From 1991 to 2008, the department was headed by Prof. V.P. Trubnikov’s student, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor D.D. Bitchuk. From 2008 to 30 August 2025, the Department of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, which is the base department of the Higher Medical Educational Institution of Ukraine, was headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Hryhorii Hryhorovych Holka.

After the merger of the departments on 1 September 2025, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Grigory Grigoryevich Golka was appointed acting head.

This was repeatedly discussed during round tables dedicated to personnel training at various scientific and practical conferences held in our country and at meetings of heads of relevant departments.

In the context of conducting practical classes online, practical skills are developed with multimedia support and the demonstration of educational films dedicated to teaching applied skills in traumatology and orthopaedics, as well as emergency conditions.

The department trains master’s students in their 1st, 4th, 5th, and 6th years of study in the medical, paediatric, and dental faculties under the educational programmes ‘Medicine,’ ‘Paediatrics,’ and “Dentistry”; master’s students majoring in ‘Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Technologies’ with a specialisation in ‘Orthotics and Prosthetics’; third-year bachelor’s students majoring in ‘Therapy and Rehabilitation’; first- and second-year interns specialising in ‘Orthopaedic Traumatology’; postgraduate students majoring in “Medicine” with a specialisation in ‘Traumatology and Orthopaedics’ in the field of healthcare; Cadets of thematic improvement courses in knee arthroscopy, minimally invasive osteosynthesis in multiple trauma, orthopaedic traumatologists; Cadets specialising in Orthotics and Prosthetics.

The department’s material and technical base allows for high-quality blended learning (remote or in-person). Video equipment, multimedia projectors, and simulation equipment are actively used in the teaching process.

The educational process demonstrates the capabilities of the most modern diagnostic techniques, including modern methods of radiation imaging of pathology (MRI, CT, ultrasound) and laboratory research.

There are sufficient classrooms for online training, each of which has everything necessary for conducting classes.

The department’s lecturers are constantly working to further improve the methodological material for the disciplines and upload it to the Moodle platform for students to review and study. The methodological materials are written in Ukrainian and English, and the illustrative material is updated using modern information technologies. Particular attention is paid to covering issues of firearm injuries, providing emergency medical care, and pre-medical care. Methodological recommendations for teachers and methodological guidelines for students have been developed for all new topics, and illustrative material has been selected. Currently, all lectures and practical classes are conducted with multimedia support.

‘Orthopaedic and traumatological assistance to the population in conditions of martial law’, state registration number 0123U103541, term of implementation 2023-2026, scientific supervisor – Prof. Mykola Berezka, responsible executor – Associate Professor V.V. Grygoruk; co-executors – Assistant Professor D.V. Vlasenko, Assistant Professor M.Yu. Stroev, Assistant Professor B.Yu. Kucherenko, postgraduate students (A.V. Drokin, D.A. Davydenko, T.M. Mamedov).

‘Treatment of osteoporosis in infectious and inflammatory diseases of the musculoskeletal system’ State registration number 0123U101746, term of implementation 2023–2025, scientific supervisor – Prof. Hryhorii Hryhorovych Holka, responsible executor – Associate Prof. A.O. Oliinyk; co-executors Associate Professors O.G. Fadeev, V.V. Vesnin, Head of the Orthopaedic and Traumatology Department of the University Hospital Branch of Kharkiv National Medical University V.I. Kupin.

Clinical bases of the department:

• from 2012 to the present day, the Kharkiv Regional Council’s municipal non-profit enterprise ‘Regional Clinical Hospital’.
• from 2023 – Kharkiv National Medical University University Hospital Branch.
• From 1 September 2025, the Municipal Non-Profit Enterprise ‘City Clinical Hospital of Emergency and Urgent Medical Care named after Prof. O.I. Meshchaninov’ of the Kharkiv City Council.

Employees of the department are members of domestic and foreign scientific associations, such as ESTES, ISAKOS, SICOT, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeon.

14 times the staff of the department took part in internships abroad (Spain, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Israel, Lithuania).

Training of interns in the specialty “Orthopedics and Traumatology”.

Measures of BPD of doctors (TU “Minimally invasive osteosynthesis in polytrauma”, “Arthroscopy of the knee joint”, “Current issues of rehabilitation and orthosis of patients with injuries and diseases of the lower extremities”, “Current issues of rehabilitation and prosthetics of patients with injuries”) (Topical issues of rehabilitation and orthotics of patients with injuries and diseases of the upper extremities and spine “for orthopedic traumatologists and” Emergency and emergency medical care in emergencies “for traumatologists, emergency physicians, anesthesiologists.)