5 – 20 June 2019,  courses on “Treatment of Patients before and after Cardiac Surgery” were conducted on the basis of the Kozyatyn Central District Hospital (Vinnytsya region), including a conference within the training framework for cardiologists, therapists, general practitioners of family medicine, physicians of functional diagnostics , cardiovascular and vascular surgeons, general practitioners, anesthetists, and also doctors of other specialties who are interested in treating diseases of the cardiovascular system.

The courses were organized by the Department of Cardiac Surgery, X-ray Endovascular and Extracorporeal Technologies of the P. Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, the Heart Institute, All-Ukrainian Association of Cardiothoracic, Endovascular Surgery, and Transplantology. Among the teachers of the courses were specialists of the Heart Institute – cardiac surgeons Vadym Sakalov, Oleg Zelenchuk, cardiologist Natalia Volodkina.