II All-Ukrainian Scientific Tournament Has Taken Place!

The date November 17, 2017 became a landmark for all Ukrainian medical students. The Second All-Ukrainian Student Scientific Tournament was held jointly by the friendly teams of SSS (Students Scientific Society) and YSS (Young Scientists Society), the Students’ Trade Union, Student Council of ONMedU, Intellectual Games team of NMU and UMSA. Our university heartily welcomed teams from Kyiv, Vinnytsya, Sumy and Kharkiv within its walls.

For some months, SSS members worked hard on the program of the tournament to present the university at the All-Ukrainian level properly. It resulted in an interesting, extraordinary system of tasks, developed in accordance with the latest scientific discoveries of medicine. In addition, the tournament was held in two stages to determine the best of the best. The honorable jury was composed of university professors from all medical fields in order to provide a competent and unbiased assessment of each team. After the two rounds of the competition, the following teams were chosen as winners: “Pandemic” –NMU named after O.O. Bohomolets (1st place), “Dry Ear Plugs, cheaply” – ​​ NMU named after O.O. Bohomolets (2nd  place) and “Riolan’ Bouquet” – MI Sum DU (III place). It was them who showed the quality of persistent scholars and genuine team players best. Also, our student – Alina Ivanyuk – received the honorary award of the best speaker of the whole tournament. The winners and participants of the final were awarded with outstanding prizes and certificates of honor from Odessa National Medical University and publishing house “New Book”. These students defended the name of their Alma Mater.

The SSS Council hopes that everyone who competed, received a large portion of positive emotions and will take colored Odessa memories back home. ONMedU sincerely congratulates the winners and wishes to continue their rapid movement to the Olympus of the greatest of sciences – medicine!