Academic Work

     Educational and methodological work of the Department of Veterinary Reproductology, as clinical, aimed at providing preparation at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of NULES of Ukraine for highly qualified and competitive doctors of veterinary medicine. The training of specialists is carried out by the Law of Ukraine on Higher Education, the standard of higher education of Ukraine in the specialty 211 Veterinary medicine, curricula, and work programs, which provide the fundamentality of education, optimal relation, and combination of theoretical and practical training, take into account the achievements and prospects of education, science and economics. The effectiveness of professional training of future veterinary specialists largely depends on the level of educational and methodological work of the department, which is the final in the formation of general and certain (professional) competencies, basic knowledge, proficiencies, and veterinary reproductive skills. Educational and methodological work is organized and carried out by the department as a complete system of actions and measures aimed at ensuring the quality of professional training of students, advanced training and internships of specialists in veterinary medicine, and professionalism of each scientific and pedagogical worker, activation of the creative potential of teachers and students in the educational process.
     Nowadays, the system of educational and methodological work is based on the achievements of modern veterinary reproductology, advanced production experience, and comprehensive analysis of the educational process and covers analytical, diagnostic, research, scientific-practical, and informational activities. The priority of the department is to increase the level of practical components and improve logistic and scientific-methodological support of the educational process. The main aspect of teachers' work and staff of the department is to ensure the educational process. They are constantly and systematically working to improve the material component and educational and methodological support of educational disciplines that are taught at the department, development of work programs, and educational and methodological complexes.
     The educational process includes classroom learning (lectures, practical, laboratory, individual classes), students' independent work, and practical training. Students to consolidate theoretical material and obtain practical skills, independently carry out the customization of diseased animals during outbound clinical classes, undergo educational practice in the study and research farms of NULES of Ukraine, hospitals of the educational and production Clinical center "VetMedservice", as well as during clinical days, alternating in partnership clinics of veterinary medicine.
The educational process at the department takes place in 3 educational laboratories: "The educational laboratory of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Biotechnology of Animal Reproduction", "The Educational Laboratory of Veterinary Support for Ruminant Animals' Health", "Educational Laboratory of Research Methodology - Computer Class", staffroom, hospital for productive animals and "Educational and Scientific Laboratory "Animal Reproductology Center with Sperm and Embryo Bank".
     According to the results of clinical research, and generalizations of literature, each student writes an academic medical history. The work helps to consolidate theoretical knowledge and acquire the skills to make independent decisions in practical veterinary medicine. Educational practices on "Biotechnology of Animal Reproduction" and "Obstetrics and Gynecology" are conducted based on NULES of Ukraine "Velykosnytinske Education and Research Farm named after O.V. Muzychenko” and “Agronomic Research Station”, where students work out the methods of obtaining sperm from the fetuses, carry out its visual and microscopic evaluation, detect animals in a state of sexual hunting and practice artificial insemination techniques, master practical skills in clinical ones, laboratory and instrumental methods of diagnosis, therapy and prevention of obstetric, gynecological and andrological pathology in animals, as well as diseases of breast and newborn animals.
     Over the last ten years, the department's scientific and pedagogical staff has prepared more than 120 educational and methodological instructions and recommendations to ensure the educational process of students recommended by the Academic Council of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Workbooks, lectures, tests, methodological instructions for conducting laboratory works, and independent learning, etc.), as well as 2 coursebooks and 9 tutorials.

Conducting an outbound clinical class on the topic of “Ultrasound of pregnancy”