Within the framework of the visit to medical institutions of middle Asia, the head of the Oncology Department of KSMU Associate Professor Vladimir Vladimirovich Khvostovoy as a member of the Russian delegation of oncologists who came to the international conference in Bukhara, May 1 visited Avicenna Museum in Afshon – a city in Bukhara region, which is the birthplace of the great scientist.
Abu Ali Hussein ibn Abdullah ibn Abdullah ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was a medieval Persian scholar, philosopher and physician, a representative of Eastern Aristotelianism. He was the court physician of the Samanid emirs and Deylemite sultans, and for some time was a vizier in Hamadan. Author of more than 500 scientific works, honored by many in the world as the main figure of medicine in the world for the whole history.
On the initiative of V.V.Khvostovoy the Russian delegation got acquainted with the staff and students of the medical technical school for 1500 students located here. On this day there was a student quiz on surgery and in front of a large audience of students the representatives of the delegation of oncologists told about the institutions they represent.
V.V.Khvostovoy told about KSMU and its structural unit Medical and Pharmaceutical College, offering the director, teachers and students to get to know each other better and discuss the issues of academic mobility, and also asked some questions to the quiz participants.