Bogomolets National Medical University, Ukrain

Bogomolets National Medical University (NMU) is a medical school founded in 1841 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The university is named after physiologist Alexander A. Bogomolets. O.O.Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv is hailed as one of the best medical institutions not only in Ukraine but also in Europe. Situated in the heart of the cosmopolitan city of Kiev, this university has been the destination of choice thousands of students from all over the world. Students from around 65 countries came here to study medicine.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.

The library of National medical university was founded in 1841 as the library for medical faculty at Kyiv Saint Volodymyr University on the base of funds at Vilno medical surgical academy.
In 1881 at the initiative of student O.A. Kisel (future famous pediatrician) “Clinical society of medical students” was established and the students’ library was founded. During the first year of its existence the library included 130 books.In 1907 the library serves the women’s medical courses, 1916 – the library works as a part of Women’s medical institute, 1929 – it acquires the status of library of Kyiv medical institute with the book stock of over 10,000 copies.
Until 1941 the library included almost 300,000 books and journals. The library stock is multidisciplinary, the total number of 650,000 copies in Ukrainian, Russian, English, German, French and other foreign languages, in particular, 42,650 foreign books and journals and 4,000 rare editions. The book stock is the unique collection of scientific medical, medical biological, public political and fiction literature. At present moment the library consists of 7 sections: book acquisition, scientific processing of literature, book depositary, information bibliographic department, department of educational literature, department of scientific medical literature, department of public political and fiction literature.
The library has 7 reading halls (4 of them in hostels). Every year the library performs approximately 50 information events, serves over 10,000 readers, publishes over 600,000 copies of literature.

Students gain knowledge and skills acquired during their studies in clinical and theoretical departments during the production practice in the winter and summer. The bases of production practice are more than 200 most powerful medical and prophylactic institutions of Kyiv, the Dental Medical Center of the O.O. Bogomolets National Medical University, 10 sanitary-epidemic stations, 4 pharmaceutical factories, and 7 pharmaceutical associations with dozens of pharmacy establishments.

Address : Tarasa Shevchenko Blvd, 13, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01601.