About Bogomolets National Medical University

Recently, I was invited to visit Bogomolets National Medicine University in Kyiv. My main purpose was to visit the research library. Stanislav Ustinov (my tour guide) has plans to make it a modern library. Some readers may be surprised that a national medical school does not have a modern library. However, this is Kyiv in Ukraine. The country has been under Soviet dominance for many years. Many public universities do not have the funds to make necessary improvements. Bogomolets National Medical University started construction of a twenty-four-story building to modernize its university a few years ago. However, funds ran out and construction was stopped in 2011.

Bogomolets' library is small and outdated. The stacks are restricted to students only. They must use an outdated card catalog system to search for books. They hand in their request when they find the title they are looking for and a librarian will retrieve it.

The collection is also small for a medical university, and many volumes are outdated.

Stanislav dreams of a modern library that has more up-to-date books. He also wants to set up a computer lab so students can search international databases like PubMed for articles on medical research. Stanislav's dreams are not unrealistic. Bogomolets National Medicine University's future doctors do not have the same access to library services as medical students in Europe and the United States. This is a critical need. Access to the latest medical information and research is essential for medical students to learn effectively and become competent surgeons and physicians. Modern libraries at medical universities are not an option. It is a vital need.

The university's name is actually after Alexander A. Bogomolets, who Joseph Stalin appointed to lead a group of researchers on the topic of prolonging life. Bogomolets did some interesting and important hematology research, but he never found a way to increase life expectancy.

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