Life examples of luminaries of Ukrainian medicine as an inexhaustible treasury for patriotic education of domestic doctors

Annotation. The profession of a doctor is unique in terms of a set of requirements and requires, first of all, vocation and service. Morality is one of the main components of the compassionate doctrine of medicine, which in itself cannot be an innate quality of the soul – it must be cultivated. This is a product of society and education, which means that this direction should have a worthy place in medical education. The challenges of the modern period of development of Ukraine especially need examples of high ethics and morality from the experience of the past. The article presents biographical data on doctors of various specialties who have made a significant contribution to domestic and world medicine from ancient times to the end of the twentieth century and who worked on the territory of modern Ukraine. These examples of high morality, devotion to the profession and service to the people should be based on the professional education of doctors, true patriots of their homeland.