At this moment, Basics of Higher Mathematics, Methods of Mathematical Statistics and Basics of Informatics are lectured together with studies of medicine and applied physics. Today these subjects are especially relevant. Therefore, they are lectured to the students of all five faculties (Medicine, Odontology, Pharmacy, Public Health and Nursing). The course of Basics of Science Researches is lectured to the third course students of the faculty of Medicine. Also, the special course – Mathematical Statistics and Informatics in Biomedicine – is lectured for the graduate students of biomedical science branch. The statistical estimation of research data, using various packages of statistical analysis, is very relevant subject in present medicine science. The course of Mathematical Statistics and Computer Science is lectured to the listeners of the doctor refresher department, as well.
Scientific work of the department is constantly coordinated with the scientific problems, which are analysed by the scientists and clinicians of the university. During the last decade, a good few of works were published in the international press and in the material of conferences. The personnel of the department have prepared and published the methodical means of the education of Medical Physics,Mathematics and Informatics for Medicine students.
History
The department was founded in 1951. The heads of the department were prof. A. Puodžiukynas (1950-1965), prof. A. Gutmanas (1965-1972), assoc. prof. D. Saudargienė (1972-1979), prof. J. Sapagovas (1979-2005) and assoc. prof. V. Šaferis since 2005. At the beginning, the classical physics was lectured to medics. There were no laboratories of Physics in the then Institute of Medicine. Therefore, students attended the lectures and did laboratory works in the Institute of Polytechnics together with future engineers. Later on, physics teaching laboratories were founded step by step in the Institute of Medicine. The head of the department prof. A. Puodžiukynas gathered self-dependent collective of the department. The physicists B. ir E. Naruševičiai, S. Skomskis, A. Kviklys started to work. They adapted education programmes to the medic requirements. S. Skomskis started to lecture the Basics of Higher Mathematics in the course of Physics. Therefore, at the beginning of the seventh decade, when the quantitative research methods started to spread in medicine, mathematicians started to work together with physicists. The department got the name of Physics, Mathematics and Biophysics. In 1962 biophysics started to be prepared. The special courses of physics and mathematics were lectured to them: Molecule Physics, Biomechanics, Biological Thermodynamics, Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Biophysics. It was started to collaborate with other state higher schools of medicine. At this moment, the personnel of the department closely collaborate not only with out state higher schools but also with foreign universities (USA Michigan, Norway Oslo Institute of Physiology etc.).
The department is very cohesive, not incosiderable collective of physicists, mathematicians and informaticians, which ventilates the problems of exact science applications in medicine. From old times, beautiful traditions are cherished in the department: travelling through the vicinities of the native country, selebrating remarkable dates of the personnel.