IN MEMORY OF THE TEACHER. DAVYDENKO - SUVOROVA RIMMA VASILYEVNA (14.06.1925-25.08.2011)

Abstract

The article deals with the activities of associate professor of the Department of Social Hygiene and Health Organization Rimma Davydenko-Suvorova, who worked at the Leningrad pediatric medical Institute ((LPMI, now SPbSPMU) from 1957 to 1980. She created a course of the history of medicine at LPMI, worked out an original system of teaching this discipline, studied the history of LPMI and was the author of its first Museum exhibition. The research of R. V. Davydenko-Suvorova in the field of history of Pediatrics and protection of motherhood and childhood, medical ethics (bioethics) and deontology is analyzed, and its role in the development of these disciplines is shown. The characteristic of teaching activity, the distinctive feature of which was a high methodological level, is given. Her lectures, classes, speeches to doctors or students, no matter what problems they were devoted to, always aroused interest, demonstrated a deep knowledge of the subject, abondoned in interesting material, new information, examples from practice, supported by data from social surveys, were logical, clear wording, competent, imaginative language. The properties of Rimma Vasilyevna’s personality that attracted people to her are named: benevolence, desire to help, erudition, modesty, integrity, honesty, etc. The grateful memory of Rimma Vasilyevna is kept by everyone who knew her, worked with her, and learned from her not only profession, but also life values.