Purpose – to summarize historical data on the formation and development of Radiology Department of O. O. Bogomolets National Medical University.
Materials and methods. The paper deals with the analysis of pupblicly available literature sources and archival data concerming the history of Radiology Department, establishing scientific school of development of methodological approaches to teaching Radiology at the university.
Results and discussion. Over the century of its existence, Radiology and Radiation Medicine Department of O. O. Bogomolets National Medical University along with the staff members, including different generations of teachers, scientists and physicians, have been focused to present key directions and priorities in diagnostic radiology, radiation therapy and radiation medicine in the educational process, research and clinical activities and make those be significantly in line with the trends of radiological research development in the world.
Conclusions. The department is the basic one among the radiology departments of medical universities in Ukraine; it is in charge of teaching and learning activities as well as management of radiological service in the country. Domestic radiology and radiation medicine have always been distinguished by a combination of own glorious traditions in the development of diagnostic radiology issues and therapy striving to follow in the footsteps of world scientific, clinical and diagnostic thought.
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