100 years pathophysiology in the medical education in Bulgaria

Pathophysiology is a medical discipline whose subject is the violation of the main regulatory mechanisms leading to pathological processes and diseases. The first lectures were conducted in 1790 at the University of Erfurt, Germany, by Professor August Hecker. This review follows the founding and development of pathophysiology in medical universities in Bulgaria. With the establishment in 1917 of the Faculty of Medicine at Sofia University on April 10, 1918, the teaching in the new disciplines was organized. Under number nine in the amendments to the National Education Act, published in the State Gazette, is the subject "pathological physiology and experimental medicine". Professor Vasil Mollov in 1936-1937 delivered a lecture series on clinical pathophysiology at the Medical Faculty in Sofia. The founder of Bulgarian pathophysiology is Assoc. Prof. Minko Dobrev, who prepared a full course of 32 lectures. In 1947, the Faculty of Medicine in Plovdiv established the first Department of Pathological Physiology in Bulgaria, headed by Prof. Lyuben Telcharov, and in 1950 the Department at the Faculty of Medicine in Sofia headed by Prof. Stefan Pisarev was founded. With the establishment of new medical faculties, departments of pathophysiology were established in Varna, Pleven and Stara Zagora.