Shchepetov Volodymyr Vitaliiovych

Category: First

Education:

• Bogomolets National Medical University;
• Ukrainian Military Medical Academy,

Areas of professional development:

• contract work in local clinic of Bossaso, on the shore of the Gulf of Aden.

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• planned and emergency surgery of abdominal cavity organs;
• conservative and surgical treatment of burn wounds, frostbite, cicatricial deformities of burn and other genesis;
• ambulatory surgical measure: atheroma, lipoma, hidradenitis, hygroma, ingrown nail, telangiectasis;
• fresh burn injury therapy;
• frostbite consequences therapy;
• outpatients appointments of surgical profile on on hygromas, lipomas, arterial spider removal.
• ‘A good doctor is a good diagnostician, a good psychologist, who regularly improves his skills. You need to explain medical aspects depending on patient’s pathology and his general habitus. This shall not be harmful for a patient.
• ‘Being a doctor is always a combination of vocation and work. To be a doctor without vocation is simply not interesting – it will not last long. I always try to explain to a patient the best clinical way to solve his problems.’

Tell us about your professional interests other than your specialization:

• all areas associated with surgery;
• osteopathy.

Hobbies, favorite movies, books:

• ‘I have a very diverse, rich and interesting life outside the hospital. I like to spend my free time actively: shooting, jumping, running, swimming. But the main thing is that I’m a father of four children, therefore I’m never bored outside of work.’

Doctor's advice:

• ‘No matter how banal it can sound, but always carry out preventive measures. And, certainly, turn to specialists more often.’