About 1500 students of the first-year of study are beginning their training in medical physics (MP) each academic year in the National Medical University in Kiev. Students receive introduction to modern achievements of physics in medicine such as magnetic resonance, laser physics etc. The MP course has associated laboratories, which provide students additional practical training, including basics of diagnostic and physiotherapeutic equipment, viscosimetric and optical methods in medicine.

One of main tasks which is facing medical industry of Ukraine, there is development, trial, production and exploitation of medical equipment according to world standards and regulations. The presence of well-functioning system of teaching, retraining and attestation of doctors, which take part in development and clinical trials of medical equipment, appears the obligatory requirement. Upgrading medical services in Ukraine needs forming at future doctors the knowledges in the field of MP and biomedical engineering (BME) during study in medical universities. Wide introduction of hi-tech medicine forms a necessity in the specialists of the new type, who will be able to provide the proper functioning of medical equipment complexes and to take part in its elaboration and trials.

Creation of the BME department corresponds to strategy of integration of Ukrainian medical and engineering society into European educational and scientific culture. Main scientific interests of BME department in the National Medical University are follows: (a) theoretical justification of optimization methodological principles of the development, production, trials, control of quality and exploitation of medical equipment, instruments and materials with the application of fundamental achievements of MP and BME; (b) study, adaptation, modernization and introduction of front-rank world pedagogical experience in MP and BME teaching in higher medical educational establishments with the wide use of modern educational technologies. Promotion of new interdisciplinary activity is one of the ways to attract students to MP and BME.