About us
The Department of Histology, Cytology and Embryology was founded in 1867; it is the oldest among similar departments in Ukraine. The main activities of the department are educational, methodological, scientific and educational work.
Promotional video of the Department of Histology, Cytology and Embryology.
The educational work at the department involves teaching students who study in the educational programmes “Medicine” (Master’s degree; specialty 222 “Medicine”, first and second years), “Dentistry” (Master’s degree; specialty 221 “Dentistry”, first year), “Laboratory diagnostics” (Bachelor’s degree; speciality 224 “Technologies of medical diagnostics and treatment”, first and second year) of the discipline “Histology, cytology and embryology”; according to the educational programme “Pediatrics” (Master’s degree; speciality 228 “Pediatrics”, first and second year) − the discipline “Histology, Cytology and Embryology with peculiarities of childhood”. The department also teaches an elective course “Improvement of Histology knowledge to prepare for the Krok-1” (third year).
Educational and methodological work includes the publication of textbooks, manuals, atlases, albums, workbooks, as well as various methodological guidelines for lecturers and students. The educational process, lectures and practical classes are conducted with the use of multimedia technologies. The department has its own digital micrographs database and a unique atlas of histological preparations; animated illustrations of histological objects are implemented in the educational process. The department actively develops distance learning technologies: courses have been created in the KhNMU distance learning system on the MOODL platform.
The research work of the department (the research topic is “Development of clinical and morphological methods for the examination of structures of the human body and animals”, 2023-2025) is aimed at developing new and improving existing clinical and morphological methods for the examination of structures of the human body and animals at the microscopic and macroscopic levels of organisation based on fractal geometry methods. The traditional scientific interest of the department is the study of the structure and individual anatomical variability of the structures of the nervous and other systems at different levels of their organisation. One doctoral dissertation is in progress.
- History of the department
- Department today
- Educational process
- Scientific work
- International Activity
The Department of Histology, Cytology and Embryology of Kharkiv National Medical University was founded in April 1867, its predecessor was the Histology Cabinet opened at the School of Medicine of Kharkiv Imperial University in autumn 1866.
The founder of the Department of Histology was Doctor of Medicine, Professor Khrzhonshchevskyi Nykanor Adamovych, who made a great contribution to the study of adrenal morphology.
The staff of the Department of Histology, Cytology and Embryology of KhNMU consists of 12 employees, including 9 lecturers. The department has established a high-quality educational process, including in hybrid and distance formats, which complies with all the requirements of the world level of teaching the subject. At lectures, students receive the most relevant knowledge about the structure and function of human cells, tissues and organs. At practical classes in a hybrid format, students have the opportunity to obtain practical skills in working with a light microscope, as well as to work through theoretical material using a variety of illustrative materials.
The staff of the department constantly improve their pedagogical level, study for a master’s degree in “Higher Education Pedagogy”, and complete various courses to improve their pedagogical skills at KNMU and other higher education institutions.
The disciplines taught by the department teaching staff include “Histology, cytology and embryology”, and “Histology, cytology and embryology with features of childhood”.
The department trains students in educational and educational programs: “Medicine”, “Pediatrics”, “Dentistry” of the second master level; “Laboratory Diagnostics” of the first (bachelor) level.
The following selective educational components (disciplines) are taught at the department: “Child from embryo to adolescent” and “Improvement of knowledge in anatomy, medical biology, histology as preparation for the certification of eater”.
The department trains scientific personnel in the educational-scientific program “Doctor of Philosophy”, specialty “Medicine”.
The scientific interests of the department are related to the study of the structure and individual anatomical variability of the structures in the nervous and other systems at different levels of their organisation, as well as the development of both new and improved methods of morphological research. Currently, the department is working on 1 dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences. The results of scientific research of the Department are published in domestic and foreign periodicals that are indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. The Department of Histology, Cytology and Embryology regularly conducts scientific and practical conferences for students and young scientists.
The teaching staff of the department constantly present the results of their research at various international scientific and practical conferences. The coworkers of the department are permanent members of international scientific organizations such as International Federation of Anatomists Association (IFAA) and European Federation of Experimental Morphology (EFEM).
The teachers of the Department constantly improve their pedagogical skills at the cycles of professional development in the leading universities of Krakow, Lublin, Warsaw.
Domestic and international students of the 1-st and 2-nd year of medical and dental faculties, like during their studies at the department and after completion the course, can take an active part in the work of the Student’s Research Group under the guidance of the Larisa Koltsova.
Meetings of the Student’s Research Group take place twice a month. During the meeting members of the group, under the guidance of a teacher develop different forms of student research work: 1) work with science databases, abstracting domestic and English-language scientific sources, the drawing up of lists of references, 2) preparation of student reports on selected topics, and further their public defense at departmental conferences, which take place several times a year (the format of the conference – full-time, in the quarantine restrictions – remote (based on the board).
