HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT

Department of nutrition with occupational health course was created on the basis of the Order of the Ministry of Health of RK on October 27, 1993 and by the decision of the Academic Council of KazNMU on November 16, 1993. Eventually, department of nutrition was founded on September 1, 1994.

Department of nutrition was established in 1994 to train students of medical, pediatric, medical-prophylactic faculty on subjects such as “health food” and “food hygiene”, as well as to establish competent specialists in the field of nutrition.

Department team is actively involvedinall areas of nutrition such as fundamental and applied biomedical researches in nutrition and prevention of common forms of food insufficiency; in the development of sanitary norms and standards to ensure quality and food safety; to improve the promotion of healthy nutrition by preparing doctors and specialists in Food Hygiene and Nutrition, advice in implementation and guidance to rationalize the nutrition of different population groups.

By the decision of the Academic Council of KazNMU named after Asfendiyarov the department of “food” has been renamed (protocol № 5 from 26.01.2010) on September 1, 2010 to the department of “nutrition.”

The mission

Teach students of all faculties of the principles of healthy nutrition and basic medical supplies. Increase public education in nutrition with the future doctors and students. Together with the Kazakh Academy of Nutrition, take an active part in determining the most significant public health nutrition problems. We offer the optimal solutions with appropriate administrative structures involved in developing action plan to rationalize nutrition and prevention of alimentary-dependent diseases in Kazakhstan

The Vision

The main function of the nutrition department of nutrition is directed to the future where every graduate of KazNMU named after S.D.Asfendiyarov favors to help health by achieving a balanced diet.

To achieve this mission the Department of nutrition must comply with the following principles and orientation:

Consolidate the students’ knowledge of methodological fundamentals of food hygiene and diet therapy for various diseases.

Participate in decision of national nutritional problems, with a focus on vulnerable groups.

Work with people of all convictions, races and nationalities.

Base its activity on the recognition and realization of human rights in relation to food and nutrition.

Department of nutrition was created on September 1, 1994 pursuant to the Order MH RK № 446 of October 27, 1993, by the decision of the Academic Council of KazNMU on November 16, 1993. By the decision of the Academic Council Chair of KazNMU named after Asfendiyarov “nutrition” was renamed (protocol №5 from 26.01.2010) on September 1, 2010 to the department of “nutriciology”.

The organizer of the Department opening is a world famous scientist – academician of RAMS, NAS RK, president of the Kazakh Academy of Nutrition – T.Sh. Sharmanov. The department of nutritiology of Kazakh National Medical University, organized the first medical universities in the history of the former Soviet Union and the CIS. The initiator of the need for nutrition departments in all medical universities of the Republic, with the aim of teaching the principles of nutriciology, hygiene of nutrition, dietetics and modern problems of breastfeeding in future general practitioners was academician T.Sh. Sharmanov.

In 1994, from the date of the department opening the first organizer of the educational process was an assistant professor MD, M.A Akhmetov.
From 1995 to1999 the first professor of department was ZK Konakbaeva. During this period, prof. Saulebekova M.S. and Ph.D., Assoc. Mendygalieva K.M. worked at the department. Lee M. was the first assistant who taught the course of food hygiene and child nutrition course was taught by Imakova H.W. From 2005 to 2013, the head teacher of the department worked Ph.D., Associate Professor Buzhikeeva A.B.

Profiling discipline “Food Hygiene” for students of health-careis taught in department. In accordance with SMSE 3.08.388 RC-2006 at the department of nutrition students are trained in specialties: 051102 – “Public Health”, 051,301 – “General Medicine”, 051 101 – “Nursing” ID. From 2010 on the subject of “Nutrition” in the department has started preparing residents for the following specialties: oncology, urology, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry, allergy and clinical immunology, kardiоrheumatology, surgery, pediatrics, phthisiology, dermatovenereology. The main discipline course of department is a part of the health-care department.

Since then students in the department were trained in the Kazakh and Russian languages, with the first days of the acquisition was carried out by the Department the competitive selection of scientific experts who know perfectly how to teach in Kazakh and Russian languages​​, and this task is successfully coping productive work: on MN, a professor Aldashev AA, Associate Professors Kaynarbaeva M.S., Bykybaeva S.A., Khasenova G.H., Chuenbekova A.B., Ushanskaya E.Y., Berdygaliev A.B., Senior Lecturer Kozhahmetova A.N., teachers: PhD Beisbekova A.K., PhD Alliyarova S.T., MD Sukenova D.A., MD G.A.Tarakova and MD Bakirova M.A, MD Nurzhanova K.S., Potential of the Department refilled worthy successors: Serzhanova G.N. Yergeshbayevа R.B.

Following the general long-term objectives for science and improve the quality of medical education, KazNMU named after Asfendiyarov and the Kazakh Academy of Nutrition in 2010 formed the Innovation and Education Consortium, in which the parties have joined the intellectual, human, logistical and other resources and pledged to work together to improve the quality of medical education through the integration of education, science and practice.

Educational base is at the Department of the Kazakh Academy of Nutrition, headed by academician T.Sh. Sharmanov. The department is equipped with modern computer equipment and training necessary technical means (TCO), teaching aids sufficient for the effective conduct of the educational process.