Research work of the staff at the department of skin and venereal diseases is aimed at improving the quality of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of socially significant dermatoses, cosmetic skin blemishes and sexually transmitted infections and improving the quality and scope of medical care for the population.
The main tasks are to coordinate the activities of dermatovenereological and cosmetological services in Belarus, to provide the population with qualified treatment and diagnostic assistance, to control the quality of work of institutions of the dermatovenereological and cosmetological profile and laboratories which make diagnoses of skin diseases and STIs. Multifaceted scientific research, often of interdisciplinary nature, is applied in practical health care. The sphere of scientific interests includes current challenges p of dermatovenerology and cosmetology.
Main directions of scientific activity of the department
- Development of evidence-based methods of diagnostics and treatment of patients with socially significant skin diseases and STI with publication in scientific journals of medicine, presentation at scientific congresses.
- Application of the results of scientific research in practical health care and educational process, registration of certificates of implementation, obtaining patents for invention, preparation of educational and methodological manuals.
- Organization and participation of republican conferences, congresses, seminars, including those with international participation, lectures for general practitioner concerning current challenges of dermatovenereology and cosmetology.
Expert activities in reviewing educational and methodical publications, scientific articles, monographs, expertise of PhD research, scientific projects.
Currently, research work at the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases is conducted within the initiative theme «Optimization of methods of diagnosis, therapy and prevention of socially significant dermatoses, cosmetic skin imperfections and STIs», state reg. № 20161608 from 18.05.2016. Timeframe: researce work2016-2020.
Objective of initiative theme: to improve the quality of diagnosis and to improve methods of therapy and prevention of socially significant dermatoses, cosmetic skin blemishes and STIs based on the principles of evidence-based medicine.
Sections of the topic:
- Clinical characteristics, psychoemotional status in patients with psoriasis with alcohol abuse.
- Clinical, psychosomatic aspects and optimization of therapy of chronic dermatoses with predominant localization on the face.
- Сourse, diagnostics and treatment of chronic dermatoses in patients with liver pathology, endogenous toxicosis and fungal infection.
- Latent and late forms of syphilis: optimization of methods of diagnostics and treatment.
- Gonococcal and mycoplasma infections of the urogenital tract: current trends in the sensitivity of pathogens to drugs.
- Comparative characteristics of syphilis and other STIs morbidity in the Republic of Belarus for the period 1950-2020, development of new approaches to their prevention.
- Cutaneous lymphomas: predictors, the role of the use of dermatoscopic techniques in the diagnosis of early stages.
- Psycho-vegetative and hormonal disorders in patients with psoriasis.
Expected results of the research work and their possible use:
- Development of recommendations for the treatment of psoriasis in patients who abuse alcohol;
- Increase of therapy efficiency, improvement of life quality and reduction of the number of complications and relapses in patients with chronic dermatoses with predominant localization on the face;
- Improved efficiency of treatment of chronic dermatoses combined with concomitant liver pathology, endogenous toxicosis, fungal infection and their combinations;
- Improvement of quality of clinical and laboratory diagnostics of latent and late syphilis, evaluation of clinical efficiency of existing guidelines for treatment of latent and late syphilis in order to improve the guidelines;
- Development of recommendations for optimal use of therapy of gonococcal and genital mycoplasma infections in the Republic of Belarus; improvement of rehabilitation of patients to reduce the likelihood of relapse and complications; reduction of the probability of spread of resistant strains;
- Improve approaches to the organization of preventive work in the field of prevention of syphilis and other STIs/HIV infections;
- Improve the quality of diagnosis of cutaneous lymphomas using current objective methods of diagnosis verification;
- A method of treating psoriasis based on the correction of psycho-vegetative and hormonal disorders will be developed.
Possible field of use: practical healthcare (dermatovenereology, cosmetology, urology, gynecology, oncology, cardiology, neurology, psychiatry), departments of planning organizational measures to control the spread of STIs (Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus, Health and Education Committees of Minsk City Executive Committee, health and education departments of regional executive committees, administration of higher medical educational institutions of RB).
During the period from 2005 to 2020, in the department 7 specialists became PhD degree.
Instructions on methods of diagnosis and treatment, that publishes and approved by the Ministry of Health
Staff of the department regularly participate in scientific and practical conferences, seminars, congresses and symposiums, work as reviewers in scientific journals, programs, reviewing PhD thesis, participates in the annual updating of available educational programs. The results of the researches of the staff are regularly published and presented at republican and international conferences.
Many specialists from the staff are members of the Belarusian public society of dermatovenereologist and cosmetologists (BOODK), the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV), the International Society of Dermatologists (ICD), the International Academy of Information Technology.
The efforts of the team of the department are aimed at the development and implementation of new methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of skin diseases and sexually transmitted infections.