The meeting of the Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic Vladimír Lengvarský and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic Mgr. Lenka Dunajová Družkovská with the representatives of the Teaching Hospital J. A. Reiman in Prešov and representatives of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ- the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ prof. Daniel Pella, M.D., PhD. and the Vice-Dean for Scientific Research prof. Peter Jarčuška, M.D., PhD. was held at the Teaching Hospital J. A. Reiman in Prešov on Friday, September 23, 2022.
The representatives of the Ministry of Health, the Faculty of Medicine, UJPŠ, and the Teaching Hospital J. A. Reiman in Prešov, among whom was the hospital director Ing. Ľubomír Šarník and the Deputy Director for LPS for non-surgical disciplines, Boris Mavrodiev, M.D., spoke together about the possibilities of improving the quality of teaching of the students of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ, and the possibility of practical teaching of the sixth-year students of the study programme General Medicine at the Teaching Hospital J. A. Reiman in Prešov.
Currently, the teaching is carried out at four workplaces of this hospital-at the cardiac center and the internal, surgical, and urological clinics this academic year on the basis of the valid Agreement on the establishment of a specialized teaching facility and practical teaching of students of a public university between the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and the Teaching Hospital J. A. Reiman in Prešov.
“For the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ, and its students, the expansion of the possibilities of contact teaching is always a benefit and an enrichment of teaching, because it helps to improve their practical experience and contributes to their better preparation for their future work,” says the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ prof. Daniel Pella, M.D., PhD.
