The Department of Faculty Therapy is one of the oldest departments of the university, established in 1920. The first to be appointed head of the department was Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor N.N. Nizhibitsky, a graduate of the Medical Faculty of St. Petersburg University, who managed to organize educational and methodological work in a short time, expand and improve the diagnostic and therapeutic base. From 1928 to 1934, the department (then called “hospital therapy”) was headed by Professor E.M. Zhadkevich, who first described the clinic of a new typhus-like disease caused by bipolar bacillus, introduced complex therapies for cholera, malaria, and typhus into the clinic, and studied the effect of Psekup sulfur baths on the cardiovascular system. In 1926-1928 and 1934-1945, he was the head of the department, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor K.M. Rutkevich, a student of Professor V.P. Obraztsov, a representative of the Kiev School. During this period, the department actively studied issues of gastroenterology (stomach cancer, dysentery), cardiovascular syphilis, rheumatism, vitaminology, diagnosis and treatment of chronic cholecystitis, typhoid fever. A method of complex therapy of serous pleurisy was introduced into the clinic. From 1945 to 1958, the head of the department was assigned to associate Professor, later Professor Kazimir Antonovich Patsevich. Professor K.A. Patsevich worked on issues of hematology, endemic goiter, and bronchial asthma, and after a business trip to China, he introduced acupuncture treatment for diseases of internal organs in the region. In 1958-1965, the department was headed by Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor Viktor Yelevich Bogdanov, who continued to study issues of gastroenterology, rheumatism, and balneology. At the same time, associate professors Boris Grigorievich Tsinkolovsky, Dmitry Fedorovich Korobov, Fedor Aronovich Samoilovich, later Evgenia Nikolaevna Agapova, Olga Vladimirovna Krutovskaya, Ivan Dmitrievich Mikhalev and 25 assistants (T.G. Bantova, N.K. Mezentseva, S.L. Litvinova, etc.) worked at the department.
For 32 years (1965-1997), the department was headed by Evgeniya Nikolaevna Agapova, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation and Honored Scientist of the Kuban, a graduate of the Kuban Medical Institute, a student of Academician A.L. Myasnikov. In further research in the field of cardiology, Professor E. N. Agapova and her students are associate professors and assistants: A.M. Tkachenko, Yu.V. Ionov, E.P. Chulkov, E.N. Eliseeva, V.N. Sklyarenko, A.Y. Blednova, V.I. Afaunova, N.V. Zalaldinova, Z.G. Baste, T.P. Denisova, R.N. Novikova, T.N. Sorokina, and others. We continued and developed the main scientific directions of the Kuban Medical Academy. In 1986, the department was renamed the Department of Faculty Therapy.
Since July 1997, the head of the department has been Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Eliseeva L.N. Under the supervision of L.N. Eliseeva, the department has completed 26 candidate’s and 1 doctoral dissertation.
The department conducts classes with students of the 4th year of the Faculty of Medicine, the 5th year of the Faculty of Medicine and Prevention and the 3rd-5th year of the Faculty of Pediatrics in the following disciplines: faculty therapy, occupational diseases, hospital therapy, medical rehabilitation, occupational diseases, military field therapy. The methodological developments of the department have been prepared and updated, new methodological manuals have been created using the modular system. In accordance with modern requirements, test assignments and knowledge testing, educational medical histories are widely used in practical classes, tests and exams, multimedia equipment is actively used in lectures.
Staff of the department carry out medical work in the specialized departments of GBUZ Research Institute-KKB No. 1.
The department currently includes: Head of the Department, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Eliseeva L.N., associate professors: Ph.D. Baste Z.A., Blednova A.Yu., Malkhasyan I.G., Samorodskaya N.A., Semizarova I.V., Sirunyants A.A., Ph.D. assistants: Belozerova N.P., Tikhomirova N.Y., Frolova T.I., senior laboratory assistants, Ph.D. Zhdamarova O.L., Serebryakova S.S..