title: Doctors and lecturers from Macedonia elected for the first time to the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje in the period 1955-60.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present a group of young doctors from Macedonia who were elected as lecturers at the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, Macedonia, in the period 1955-60.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study based on archive materials, encyclopaedias and jubilee publications of the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Dentistry in Skopje, other relevant sources of information, and a review of the relevant literature.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Faculty of Medicine in Skopje was founded in 1947 and the first meeting of the Teachers' Council of the Faculty was held on March 17, 1947. The first generation of 153 students was enrolled in the autumn of 1947 and the first lecture was delivered on November 3, 1947. Besides 15 doctors from Macedonia - faculty staff, who had been appointed in the period from 1947-54 and contributed to the establishment and initial development of the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, an additional group of 23 lecturers from Macedonia was elected in the period from 1955-60. Those 38 pioneers and coryphaei of medicine in Macedonia played important roles in the establishing and/or further development of a number of the faculty departments/chairs, institutes and clinics within the newly established Faculty of Medicine in Skopje in 1947 and in the first 10-15 years of its initial development, until 1960 and later.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, founded in 1947, played a crucial role in the education of medical professionals, in improving the poor health status of the population and the overall further development of the health system and provision of health care to the population of Macedonia. The contribution of the second group of 23 doctors and lecturers from Macedonia in furthering the development of the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, during the 1950s and later, was very important.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, R. Macedonia.
authors.forename: Doncho
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Donev
authors.forename: Momir
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Polenakovic
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history*; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D018843:Republic of North Macedonia; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history*