Medical universities of five countries sign cooperation agreements

VITEBSK, 16 November (BelTA) – Joint research and technological support for anatomy-related subjects will be the focus of cooperation between the Vitebsk State Medical University (VSMU) and medical universities from Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia and Bulgaria, BelTA learnt from head of the VSMU anatomy faculty, Alexander Usovich M. D. Sci-tech cooperation agreements between Moldova State University of Medicine and Pharmacy 'N. Testemitsanu', Kazakhstan State Medical Academy - Astana and Belgorod State University (Russia) were signed during the international scientific and practical conference of heads of anatomy faculties and universities of the CIS and Eastern European states held in Vitebsk. The medical department of Trakya University (Bulgaria) intends to join these agreements in the future; the relevant draft cooperation agreement is being coordinated. The cooperation will cover several areas, Alexander Usovich said. First of all, the sides will develop and upgrade technologies to make anatomy textbooks and anatomic specimen using the plastination technology among others. This promising technology is becoming increasingly popular. The main point of this technology is that water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be touched, do not smell or decay, and even retain most properties of the original sample. In the run-up to the conference in Vitebsk, the first Russian-language textbook on plastination was issued. “Before that, this technology had been mentioned in articles only, but we have tried to describe it in the most exhaustive way possible,” Alexander Usovich said. Apart from that, the scientists of the medical universities will work out the unified legal framework for the work of anatomy faculties. The mutual recognition of diplomas was another topical issue on the agenda, Alexander Usovich added.

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