Basic information
The Faculty of Medicine has been a part of Charles University in Prague
since 1348 and is the oldest faculty of Medicine in Central Europe.
Both Faculty and the Faculty Hospital reside in the centre of Prague.
See the map .
Education
The faculty educates over 2500 students including 330 students
from abroad.
In the following study forms of studies:
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- Bachelor level studies - Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Health Care
Technology and Health Care Education.
- Magister level studies - Medicine and Stomatology. Study is permitted
only on a full-time basis.
- PhD studies - System of postgraduate studies in biomedicine.
Research
The bulk of the faculty research activities has been, for a long time,
of the applied type, oriented mostly to the broad field of clinical science,
especiallly to endocrinology, congenital disorders of metabolism, oncology,
cardiology and angiology, gastroenterology and nephrology, to list only
the main topics. In basic sciences the faculty has always had an excellent
research in the fields of developmental physiology, biochemistry and morphology,
in genetics and in cytochemistry and histochemistry.
Nowadays a great effort is being made to create an original basic science
programme based on molecular and cell biology and oriented, at its first
stage, toward congenital disorders, oncology, teratology and neurosciences.
The research has been funded mostly by grants provided by the Grant Agency
of the Czech Republic, by the Ministry of Health Grant Agency, and Grant
Agencies of the Ministry of Education and of Charles University.
For more info see
faculty pages.
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Deanship of the 1st Faculty of Medicine 