Contribution of Institute of preventive sciences of Z.P. Solovyov of Military Medical Academy to development of military health care

Here you can find information based on documentary data about the establishment and activities of Z.P. Solovyov`s Institute of Preventive Sciences of Military Medical Academy from 1925 to 1928. The institute was organized to develop hygienic thinking on November 21 1925, and became one of the first foundations of the Soviet Union, which provided training for preventive specialists. In the order №216 signed by the chief of the Head Military and sanitary department and the deputy national commissioner of health care Z.P. Solovyov on November 19, 1925, were defined strategic objectives of creation of institute among which: 1) full coherence and improvement of teaching a cycle of sanitary and preventive disciplines according to requirements of army; 2) educate listeners and doctors in accordance with the basic principles of Soviet medicine, which gives the lead to disease prevention. As the building for new institute, the three-storyed obstetric and gynecologic clinic of the academician G.E. Rein at Mikhaylovsky hospital of the baronet Villiye which was a part of Imperial Military Medical Academy has served. Many departments in the academic institute were united, among which three were prophylactic: Department of Microbiology with epidemiology and disinfection course, Departments of General and Military, Social Hygiene. On the example of educational, research and public work of departments of a hygienic profile of institute the contribution of an educational institution as in the system of training of highly qualified specialists in the health sector, and in the system of health protection of the military personnel reveals. It has been established that studying by a staff of departments of a number of questions on a perspective of preservation and promotion of health of soldiers and officers, has an exclusive character in our country.

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