Medical Prevention Disciplines and Laboratory Diagnostics Department

By the decision of Rivne Regional Council of July 27, 2018 № 1035 from September 1, 2019, Rivne State Medical College was renamed as Municipal Institution of Higher Education “Rivne Medical Academy”.

Since September 5, 2018, the Academic Council of the Academy has been established in the institution. At the first meeting of the Academic Council, on September 25, 2018, it was decided to establish a Medical and Pharmaceutical Faculty and two Departments.

In December 2019, the Department of Medical and Preventive Disciplines and Laboratory Diagnostics was established.

The department is licensed in the field of knowledge “Health”, the first level of higher education (bachelor), for the specialties:

- 223 Nursing;

- 224 Technology of Medical Diagnostics and Treatment.

 The department is headed by Vasyl Vasyliovych Palapa, candidate of medical sciences, professor of the department.

Palapa Vasyl Vasyliovych has a higher education. After graduating from the Uzhhorod State University, Faculty of Medicine, he qualified as a doctor and in 1996-1998 completed an internship at the central district hospital of Khust, Zakarpattia region.

Since 1998, he has been working as a teacher of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the medical school in Rivne.

Since 1999 he was transferred to the position of department head of the Rivne State Basic Medical College.

In 2015, Palapa V.V. defended the thesis for obtaining the scientific degree of candidate of medical sciences, specialty 14.01.01.

Since 2020, he was elected to the position of head of the Department of Medical and Preventive Disciplines and Laboratory Diagnostics at the Rivne Medical Academy in an open competition.

 Scientific and pedagogical workers with many years of experience in higher education and practical medicine work at the department:

• Sabadyshyn Rostyslav Oleksiiovych - professor, doctor of medical sciences, professor of the department;
• Boichuk Bohdan Romanovych - doctor, professor, doctor of medical sciences, professor of the department;
• Babiak Volodymyr Ivanovych - associate professor, candidate of medical sciences, professor of the department, pediatrician;
• Babiak Olena Viktorivna - associate professor, candidate of medical sciences, associate professor of the department, therapeutist;
• Hashynska Olena Stepanivna - associate professor, candidate of medical sciences, associate professor of the department, therapeutist;
• Demianchuk Mykhailo Rostyslavovych - associate professor, doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor of the department, therapeutist;
• Korobko Larysa Rostyslavivna - candidate of medical sciences, associate professor, professor of the department, surgeon;
• Mialiuk Oksana Petrivna - candidate of biological sciences, associate professor of the department, biologist;
• Oksiuta Valerii Mykolaiovych - candidate of medical sciences, associate professor of the department, obstetrician-gynecologist;
• Reznikov Anatolii Petrovych - candidate of medical sciences, associate professor of the department, sanitary doctor;
• Chyzhyshyn Borys Zinoviiovych - candidate of medical sciences, associate professor of the department, surgeon;
• Sharapa Hanna Fedorivna - candidate of pedagogical sciences, senior lecturer of the department;
• Horska Olena Vasylivna - senior lecturer of the department, therapeutist;
• Povar Natalia Andriivna - senior lecturer of the department, general practitioner;
• Sachuk Natalia Vasylivna - senior lecturer of the department, pediatrician;
• Huz Nadiia Feodosivna - senior lecturer of the department;
• Kirichek Nina Oleksandrivna - senior lecturer of the department;
• Karpovych Nataliia Vasylivna - assistant of the department;
• Lytvyn Ihor Leontiiovych - assistant of the department;
• Mohir Mariia Oleksiivna - assistant of the department;