Obstetric and gynacology department №2

Address: Zamkova str, 10, Ternopil, 46001

Tel.: (0352) 523881

Department staff: 1 professor, 3 associated professor, 1 assistant professor, 1 laborant

The head of department professor S.М.Heryak, MD, PhD

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology № 2 was created June 1, 2009 through reorganization of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ща Medical Faculti. The clinical base of the department is Ternopil regional clinical perinatal center "Mother and Child". Department was headed MD, associate professor Heryak Svitlana. At the Department work 3 associate professor Bajnii Natalia Ivanivna, Korda Inna Volodimirivna, Stelmakh Olena Evhenivna, an assistant professor Petrenko Natalia Volodimirivna and laboratory – Komarenets Oles Yaroslavovna. All teachers are fluent in English, with certificates of the first and highest level of foreign language.

Educational work

The practical classes and lectures with the students of II, IV, V, VI years studying of Medical faculty, IV years studying Dental faculty of Foreign students; nurses and bachelors of the I, II, III year of International nursing schools and nurses-bachelors II year with the distance learning are held in the Obstetrics And Gynaecology Department № 2.

II year students study the peculiarities of the Patient’s care, IV year – Physiological obstetrics, V year students – Obstetrics and Gynecology, VI year students study the Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, international nursing school – peculiarity of nursing care for pregnant, laboring and postpartal woman and gynecological patients. Studies carried out in accordance with Programs approved by the Central methodological cabinet Health of Ukraine.

Head of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department № Heryak S.M. on the practical class. 

Teachers of the Department actively work to improve methods and forms of training involving innovative educational technologies. This is creates posibilities for stimulation of students’ independent work, improves the quality of acquired knowledge, introduces healthy competition in education, improve the objectivity assessment of students’ learning and developing their creativity. Active forms and methods of educational process are widely used to  increase students' interest in gaining professional knowledge and practical skills.

As. Proffesor O.J. Stelmakh on the lectrure with 4-year students

The main forms of this work is as introduction of problem situations, creative challenges for the individual themes of discipline.

Computer programs, methodical development, case patients’ real-life situations, tests like "Step-2" are widely used by the teachers in the practical classes. "In-patient cards of pregnancies, labor and gynecological patient" are worked out by the teachers of the department and widely used in educational process.

Research interests of department staff

The department is interested in various research areas which include improving the method of introduction of labor in the delivery room of family type, pathological delivery and maintenance of pregnancy and delivery of women with extragenital pathology and gestosis. The effect of sorbents, antioxidants and immunomodulators on prophylaxis and treatment of postpartum purulent-septic diseases and inflammatory processes of women's sexual organs is studied. The problems of endometriosis, including its progression after delivery and cesarean section are the another part of scientific interest of the department staff. The department is working on an interdepartmental research work "Development and implementation of effective methods and means of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of violations of women's reproductive health and perinatal health of the fetus", approved in 2009.

Another research interests of the department are extragenital pathology in obstetrics and gynecology; management of women with placental dysfunction; diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome, thrombotic and hemorrhagic disorders as the cause of fetal loss; diagnosis, treatment and prevention of inflammatory diseases of female genital infections and tumor markers of genitals; endocrine gynecology; methods of physiological and complicated labor in the delivery room of family type.

Main scientific achievements of the department

On March 2011 Revchuk N.V. defended Ph.D. Kutsenko A.V., Zhilyaev M.M., Petruniak R.I. are actively working on their PhD under the direction of doctor of medical science Heryak S.N.

New treatment regimen of inflammatory diseases of internal women's genitals with enterosorbents, antioxidants, and antiseptic immunomodulators has been created.

"Method of treatment of pregnant women with fetal hypoxia," "The method of treatment of pregnant women with placental insufficiency",  “The method of correction of immune disorders and peroxidation disorders in pregnant women with subclinical hypothyroidism, anemia and extragenital pathology”,  “Method of treatment of chronic placental insufficiency in pregnancy and treatment of growth retardation syndrome”, “Prevention of fetal distress in women with metabolic disorders with premature delivery with the long interval between amniorrhexis and delivery”, “Prevention of premature rupture of amniotic membranes in women with  hypertension and risk for preterm labour”, are developed and implemented into practical medicine.

Department’s research materials are widely spread at international and national conferences, congresses, forums.

Teachers of the Department published a textbook, 4 newsletters, 10 acts of implementation and developed local protocols.

On the 24-25th of March 2011 Department staff conducted scientific and practical conference "Achievements and prospects of internal medicine: internal pathology in obstetric clinic"; on the 29-30th of March 2012 National Scientific Conference "Actual problems of obstetrics-gynecology."

Our teachers were trained abroad: Bahnij Natalia - Medical University of Vienna, 2006; Korda Inna - Salzburg, 2010.

The main part of the training students is involving them to research work. The most important tasks in this area are: creating the conditions for research in the formation of highly qualified scientific experts, ensuring the fullest use and development of scientific and technical potential of the university, participation undergraduates and graduate students in research work. The Department has created all conditions for students work  in scientific group.  Students are actively involved in research and development of new methods of diagnosis and treatment of obstetric and gynecological pathology.

Under the supervisions of the department, students also involved  in special program "student as a future scientist", in particulary:  Ramazanova Shahryzat, Petsuh Julia, Lillian Skaramoushe Kahuika, Kutsenko Irena. 5 th year student Skaramoushe Lillian Kahuika won "XV International Congress of Medical Students and Young Scientists", held on 27-29 April 2011.

Medical Work

Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department № 2 Faculty of foreign students was established in June 2009 on the basis of Ternopil regional perinatal center "Mother and Child" - obstetrical and gynecological unit of 3rd level of medical care for 195 beds, which incorporates the following departments: female dispensary with the center of family planning; 1st obstetric department for 35 beds; 2nd  obstetric department for 30 beds; pathology of pregnancy for 30 beds; department of extragenital pathology of pregnant for 20 beds; department of neonatal care of newborns, intensive care and neonatal intensive care unit; operative gynecology department for 40 beds; conservative gynecology department for 40 beds, department of anesthesiology and intensive care for 6 beds, department of prenatal diagnosis, clinical, biochemical and bacteriological laboratory.

Our department has four teachers, including 3 associated professors and 1 assistant professor, headed by the Chair, MD Heryak S. Department staff conduct clinical work in the obstetric departments, extragenital pathology, conservative gynecology, anesthesiology and intensive care, and consult patients in female dispensary of perinatal center. All employees of the department in 2011 were qualified for higher and first categories.

Teachers perform complicated obstetric and gynecologic operations, carries urgent duty at the perinatal center, hospital and air ambulance. Clinical and pathology-anatomic conference are held regularly. Scientific achievements of faculty and new methods of treatment are implemented into practice: fetoplacental dysfunction in pregnancy, growth retardation syndrome, prevention of endometriosis progression of women after childbirth and cesarean section, fetal distress prevention in women with metabolic disorders of premature delivery with prolonged without amniotic fluid interval, preventing premature rupture of fetal membranes in women with risk of miscarriage, of pregnant women with arterial hypertension with disturbances of lipid metabolism depending on the hemodynamic type of circulation, prevention of purulent-septic complications in women after obstetric operations proteflazid using in the treatment of inflammatory diseases of the uterus, correction of menopausal disorders in women with benign uterine tumors, preparation of birth canal for delivery in pregnant women with risk factors.

Employees of the department have been specialized in ultrasound diagnosis in obstetrics and gynecology (Associate Professor Korda I.V.), colposcopy (Associate Professor Bahnij N.I.), laparoscopy and advanced technology infertility treatment (Associate Professor Stelmakh O.Y.). In the future It is planned to perform specialized consultation in the region to enhance the provision of primary health care. In order to implement new methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of complicated obstetrical and gynecological pathology and emergency conditions the Department provides regional and scientific conferences involving leading experts in specific fields of obstetrics and gynecology.