Our achievements
This year Ternopil State Medical University is commemorating its 60th anniversary with a number of events. As a part of these celebrations, on 24 November, 2016 TSMU Student Council organized a chess tournament. Additional objective of the event was to popularize logic board games. Chess is known form the ancient times, but even today the game keeps its significance. It is not surprising that the tournament brought together students from the Dental, Medical and Pharmaceutical Faculties and the International Students Faculty.
The competitors wanted to test their knowledge and intuition. The event started with a welcoming word from the head judge, assistant professor of medical physics Valerii Didukh. Assistant professor of the department of physical rehabilitation, health and physical education Liubov Novakova helped to run the tournament.
Each competitor fought to win, thinking through every move and trying to destroy the opponent’s strategy. Those who ultimately won demonstrated superior logic, persistence and cold mind. Ievhen Momotiuk took first place took, 2nd place went to Iuriy Kovenko and Vadym Kukharchuk placed 3rd.
Under the slogan “The strongest are those who direct their strengths to good deeds!” On September 18, 2016 the second stage of the charitable marathon took place. Ternopil State Medical University also joined it.
Ukrainian and international students of TSMU supported Ternopil citizens in raising funds to purchase an electroencephalograph for free examination of children suffering from epilepsy in Ternopil region. Our university teachers exhorted the youth to good deeds and also ran with them the distance of over kilometer.
The first charitable marathon was held on May 23 this year and 33,121 UAH were raised within one hour. Today, the amount of money raised is 97 000 UAH. To buy the necessary equipment 150,000 USD is required. Nata Bench, Viktoria Farion, Sergii Sholomeichuk were the initiators of this drive.
A student of the Department of Medicine of Ternopil State Medical University Mykhailo Dumnych won this marathon getting ahead of the participant for quite much time. Our international students also ran up the whole distance and made a donation to a noble work.
Ternopil State Medical University supports athletics and encourages participation of students in sports competitions. On 14-16 March 2017, TSMU athletic complex hosted a basketball tournament for the Rector’s Cup, and dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the University.
According to the tournament’s organizer Ivan Kalka, competing for the grand prize were 15 teams , representing all faculties of the University. The Faculty of Medicine delegated six teams; Faculty of Dentistry, five; Faculty of Pharmacy, one team; the Human Health course, one team; and the International Students Faculty, two teams.
Vice-rector for academic and research work Dr. Arkadiy Sulhai awarded the trophies on behalf of TSMU rector, Dr. Mykhaylo Korda. In his address to the participants of the tournament he emphasized that university administration encourages student initiatives, in particular development of sports, and wished all present success and health.
The first place took a team of the sixth year students, the second – a team of the first-year students , and the third – a team of the second-year students, all teams representing the Faculty of Medicine. Anton Dribnitsov was awarded the MVP title.
Dr. Arkadiy Sulhai used the opportunity to thank on behalf of TSMU administration the tournament organizers as well as student members of Ukrainian Council on resuscitation and emergency medical care, who ensured monitoring of tournament participants’ health, and provided first aid help.
The fourth year student of Ternopil State Medical University Faculty of Pharmacy Vladyslav Dovhaliuk had an exciting month taking part in international knights tournament and festivals. He is a member the Zolota Shpora (Golden Spur) club of our university founded by theDentistry student Andrii Andrusyk.
“I participated in three festivals in Germany. One of them took place near Dresden. It was a big medieval festival with a knightly tournament in which I took the first place. The medal I received is a very interesting one, made out of leather. Another trophy was a fox pelt. Our team also won the first place in 5×5 battles. A week after that, in Kirkhoff near Munich, I took part in another, and even larger, festival, which brought together many more teams and knights. Our team took first place in the 3×3 category. The team included two Ukrainians, two Germans and a girl from Canada. In the individual heats I lost to the winner by a single point, ” said Vladyslav.
Our student also articipated in the festival “Pyrohovo battle” in Kyiv, where he won in individual fights. Finally, Vladyslav Dovhaliuk participated in yet another German festival, which took place on the grounds of Nuremberg fortress. Here his team won the second place in the 5×5 and the first place in 3×3 bouts.
This year, our knights are especially proud that they won the first place in the 21×21 category as part of the Ukrainian team in May during the Battle of Nations in Barcelona. The a team from Russia took second place, and a French team placed third. This victory was three years in the making. In previous competitions they got to the second place.
II Open University Games of the city of Ternopil organized by the Department for Family, Youth and Sports of Ternopil City Council and Ternopil Regional Branch of the Committee on Physical Education and Sport of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine started on March 6, 2018. Ternopil State Medical University teams take part in basketball, football, volleyball, table tennis, basketball (3 by 3), chess, swimming, and arm wrestling competitions.
Our chess team was the first to test their mettle. TSMU, TNPU TNEU-1 and TNEU-2 teams competed in a team and personal championship. Students from Ternopil State Medical University took the I place, leaving behind traditionally strong TNEU-1 and TNEU-2. Our team includes Mykhailo Yakymchuk, Yurii Kovenko (Faculty of Dentistry), Uliana Soltys, Natalia Boiko, Oleksandr Ivaniuk (Faculty of Medicine) and Dekri Mindo (International Students’ Faculty).
Mykhailo Yakymchuk took the first place on the first board, Dekri Mindo and Yurii Kovenko the first place on the second board, and Uliana Soltys was the second on the first board. Altogether, TSMU team scored 12 points. The tournament took place in the chess club of Ternopil National Economic University.
Ternopil Medical University team is coached by Assistant Professor of the Department of Physical Rehabilitation, Human Health and Physical Education Liubov Novakova.
Recently Ternopil State Medical University opened a new modern gym in the dorm 1 located on 3 Zhyvova. It has now become even more convenient for medical students to take care of their health.
The gym has high quality fitness equipment, including Inter Athletic Gym and Professional Line, as well as Fitex Cardiovascular equipment. In order to make the training as effective and safe as possible, three qualified trainers, Maksym Videlskyi, Andrii Hedez, and Vladyslav Zharskyi will be employed at the gym. They will develop tailor made traning programs for those who requite it, monitor the correct performance of the exercises and overall keep order in the gym. The capacity of the new gym is up to 50 people.
The facility also has male and female areas with lockers, showers and toilets. In addition, there is a lounge where gym visitors can relax, have a tea, talk and just rest after their workout. Opening the gym, TSMU rector professor Mykhaylo Korda, emphasized that young people should take responsibility for their own health, however the university is constantly working to create the right environment and encourage student involvement in athletic activities. All TSMU students and university employees can attend the gym for free, showing their student or staff ID. A dedicated gym pass can be ordered through the software department located in the administrative building of TSMU.
Gym hours: on weekdays from 16.00 to 22.00, weekends 10.00 to 22.00. Close-toed athletic footwear is required.
On September 20, 2021, a number of sports events took place in the Sports Centre of I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University on the International Day of Student Sports.
The celebration began with a performance by a new cheerleading team. The students planned to show their choreographic routine a year and a half ago, but it was prevented by quarantine and strict restrictions. And now we all have the opportunity to support young people and their desire to represent the university at various events. The initiators of such a team were Max Lysiuk, Maria Maryniuk, Solomiia Livak. Kateryna Dziuba, Marta Dobrianska, Mariana Kryzhanivska, Sofiia Zadorozhna, Yulia Biiak, Khrystyna Martynyshyn, Oleksandra Pohudyna and Yurii Bednarskyi are a part of the team as well. During the master class on sport dancing, the participants learned the basic steps of cha-cha-cha and waltz. It was presented by Solomiia Livak (group MM-421), the winner and finalist of national and international tournaments, student of the Faculty of Medicine.
Also, a master class in gymnastics was delivered. The basic elements of this sport and the technique of their implementation were introduced by Yulia Hlad (group MT-303), the student of the Faculty of Medicine (Physical Therapy, Ergotherapy specialty), Master of Sports.
Volleyball master class was presented by Yana Palyha, the student of the Faculty of Medicine (Physical Therapy, Ergotherapy specialty) (group MT-302). Before entering the university, the girl played in the Khimik team of the superleague (Yuzhne). Nadiia Viniarska (group MT-104) and Yulia Zolotiuk (group MT-103), the students of the Faculty of Medicine, assisted her.
Viktor Nazaruk, Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Therapy, Ergotherapy and Physical Education, Master of Sports, introduced the technique of swimming to young people.
Yanina Chaikivska, Press Secretary
