Teaching

Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at P. J. Šafárik University (UPJŠ) and Children’s Faculty Hospital (CHFH) in Košice is a teaching base of Medical Faculty of the UPJŠ Faculty of Medicine. It provides teaching of pediatrics for medical students of general and dental medicine in both slovak and english language. It also provides teaching of this subject within the non-medical study fields of physiotherapy, nursing and public health. The department is a training workplace for specialized education in the study program of Pediatrics, Pediatric Rheumatology and Nursing in Pediatrics and ensures the implementation of a resident program in pediatrics, which has been accredited at the UPJŠ Medical Faculty since 2014. Organization of national and international professional events is an integrated part of the continual medical education of health professionals.