At the Department of Pathological Physiology of Karaganda State Medical University from October 16, 2017 to October 27, 2017, Professor Kiril Terziyski - PhD doctor, professor of the Department of Pathological Physiology of Plovdiv Medical University (Bulgaria) conducted lectures and practical lessons for students of the 2nd and 3rd years on the "General Medicine" specialty of the English department, in 2001-2003, 2018, 2033, 2034 multilingual groups, as well as for Master students, residents, PhD students in the frame of academic mobility. Professors of the faculty of physiology, morphology, pathological physiology, neurosurgery and neurology, psychiatry and narcology, medical psychology and communicative skills, internal diseases No. 1 and No. 2 were invited to the lectures of Professor K. Terziyski. In 2013, Professor K. Terziyski defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Determining the change in cardiac-pulmonary exercise test parameters in COPD, chronic heart failure in liver cirrhosis."

Lectures are read in classical English, fascinating, using a large number of examples, with colorfully illustrated slides. The manner of presenting the material is free, with a clearly worked out diction. The students noted the profound approach of the professor to the explanation of the mechanisms of changes in the functions of higher nervous activity during the sleep in pathological conditions associated with impaired functions of the most important body systems: cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine. Lectures of Professor K. Terziyski  have great practical importance and attracted interest among teachers of the Department of Physiology, Pathological Physiology, Psychiatry and Narcology, Internal Diseases No. 1 and No. 2. Some elements of the material on the interpretation of modern conceptions of somnology will be used in conducting auditor and extracurricular classes for third year students of the "General Medicine" specialty and for undergraduates in studying the discipline "Pathology of organs and systems"; on the possibility of joint research activities of the faculty with active involvement of students in research work.

Head of Pathological Physiology Department 

Doctor of medical science, professor                                 S. B. Zhautikova