Bogomolets National Medical University (NMU) is a medical school founded in 1841 in

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by the

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. The university is named after physiologist

Alexander A. Bogomolets Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богомо́лец, uk, Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович Богомо́лець/Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bohomolets; 24 May 1881 � ...

. NMU provides medical training for over 10,000 students, including about 1,300 foreigners from 56 countries. The university employs about 1,200 teaching staff. Bogomolets National Medical University is one of the best medical universities in

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. The degree of the university is recognized by the world's most credible organizations like

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, MCI. It offers various courses in undergraduate and post-graduate levels to students. The university consists of 10 faculties. Bogomolets National Medical University also has a separate Institute for Post Graduate Education. The university is a pioneer in training medical specialists and research personnel in the field of healthcare. Bogomolets National Medical University has around 1500 professors. Included in the numbers are 855 Phd and 205 Doctors of Sciences. Thus, the students are trained by expert professionals and academicians in the field of medicine.

Alumni

* 1860 : Vladimir Betz, was a Russian anatomist, histologist and professor of the Saint Vladimir University today (Bogomolets National Medical University), famous for the discovery of giant pyramidal neurons of primary motor cortex which later were named

Betz cell Betz cells (also known as pyramidal cells of Betz) are giant pyramidal cells (neurons) located within the fifth layer of the grey matter in the primary motor cortex. These neurons are the largest in the central nervous system, sometimes reaching ...

s. * 1925 : Favst Shkaravsky, was an officer, physician and forensic expert in the Soviet army during World War II. He is most famous for having overseen the autopsy of

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and Eva Braun in 1945. * 1946 :

Isaac Trachtenberg Isaac Mykhailovych Trachtenberg (11 November 1923 – 27 January 2023) was a Ukrainian hygienist, Professor, MD, a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1992), academician of the Bogomolets National Medical Unive ...

, member of

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* 1989 :

Olga Bogomolets Olha Bohomolets ( uk, Ольга Вадимівна Богомолець, Olha Vadymivna Bohomolets, russian: Ольга Вадимовна Богомолец, Olga Vadimovna Bogomolets; born March 22, 1966) is a Ukrainian physician, singer and ...

, singer, songwriter, physician, and presidential candidate *

Oleh Musiy Oleh Stepanovych Musiy ( uk, Олег Степанович Мусій; born 12 May 1965) is Ukrainian medic, social activist, organizer of the medical service at Euromaidan, Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine in Yatsenyuk Government from 27 ...

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Elena Teplitskaya Teplitskaya Elena Iosipovna (1916-1998) was a Ukrainian psychologist, teacher and medical doctor. Life Teplitskaya was born on 4 September 1916, in C. Zhmerinka Vinnitsa region. She entered Kyiv Medical Institute, finishing in 1938. In Decemb ...

, doctor, psychologist and academic *

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, psychiatrist, screenwriter, fantasy fiction writer and novelist

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