History of Third Faculty of Medicine ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** The Vinohrady health care campus started its development in the beginning of the 20th cent the city periphery. In 1902, the Emperor Franz Joseph I inaugurated the Vinohrady Hospital hospital for citizens of Královské Vinohrady and Žižkov districts. In 1925 the State Healt openin its vicinity. Both institutions soon started playing key roles in the development o Prague, Bohemia and Czechoslovakia. Prior to the division of Faculty of Medicine in 1953, served to training of medical students, based on systematic activity of their noteworthy s Of the Vinohrady Hospital, there were namely the Prof. of Ophthalmology Josef Janků, the d ophthalmic toxoplasmosis (M. Jankumi); Prof. of Lung and Abdominal Surgery Emerich Polák; Czech plastic surgery Prof. František Burian. After the WWII: the founder of Czechoslovak Jiří Syllaba, a famous cardiologist Prof. Vratislav Jonáš, the founder of Czech pediatric Jiří Janele, Prof. of Neurology J. Šebek, Prof. of Forensic Medicine E. Knobloch or the He Institute doc. V. Petráň. Of the State Health Institute staff namely: Prof. Ivan Honl, who established the first the Institute on the terrritory of our state. The staff of this Institute participated in nume programmes of the World Health Organization after WWII, among others in global eradication (Prof. Karel Raška).  Based on such a rich tradition, it was feasible to establish a new m the Vinohrady health care campus. Our Faculty refers to the tradition of medical studies at Charles University as it formed basic subjects upon its foundation in 1348. From the academic year 1882/83, the Faculty of as the rest of the University, was divided into two parts – German and Czech. On November together with all other Czech schools, the Czech part of the University was closed. This t Czech education lasted till 1945. Then, along with the whole of German University, the Ger Medicine was abolished. Its property was handed over to the Czech Faculty of Medicine. In of Higher Education divided the Faculty of Medicine in Prague into three separate facultie of General Medicine (including stomatology), the Faculty of Pediatrics, and the Faculty of latter was transformed into the current Third Faculty of Medicine in 1990.The fact that a Faculty of Hygiene was created in 1953 brought about some fundamental changes: this Facult basic medical focus, although it specialized in the fields of hygiene and prevention. On t specialization enabled to develop all branches of hygiene in our post–war medicine, but on the same time restricted and limited the scope of students’ realization in clinical practi The medical instruction at the communist era was branded by a rather formalistic and cadre Since November 1989 we have been able to carry out all substantial changes in the organiza Faculty requisite for the realization of the new curriculum and study reforms. The name of was changed to the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, which underlined its pri focus. Assoc. Prof. Cyril Höschl, MD, was the first Dean of the Faculty elected in the fre the revolution in 1989. The Academic Senate was established then along with the Scientific nowadays enlists many outstanding foreign members. There were competitions for all the lea at particular Institutes, clinics, and for other university positions. The curriculum has so that the study plan reflects the general orientation of the Faculty integrating a devel preventive subjects. Plenty of employees from diverse sections of the Ministry of Health a Sciences of the Czech Republic are directly involved in the pedagogic as well as research Faculty. In September 1992 a new Faculty building at Ruská street was opened. It houses the Dean’s theoretical Departments, Departments of hygiene and preventive subjects, and, last but not Center for Scientific Information, newly established in 1992. In May 1991 Mrs. Margaret M. Canadian professor of English language, founded a prize for the best student of the Facult annually at the graduation ceremony.  The conditions for study and scientific work have im the opening of the newly constructed 6th floor of the main faculty building in May 2000, a among others the Department of Nutrition and laboratories of chemistry and molecular biolo improvement has come in May 2006 with the recontructed part of the Nursing College on Rusk the Department of Medical Ethics, Nursing and Foreign Languages are now based. Students´ v are becoming an indelible part of instruction at the Faculty. Participation in internation and research programmes and lectures by foreign specialists enable the Faculty to spread i establish new mutually beneficial scientific fellowships. This facilitates improvements in teaching material, studies of new methods, procedures, and approaches, thus creating techn indispensable for achieving a higher level of education. The Third Faculty of Medicine conferred its teaching degrees to many outstanding personali last three years, among the most prominent were: Prof. Zdeněk Neubauer in biology, Doc. Iv artificial intelligence, and Prof. Luboslav Stárka in endocrinology. At the same time, sev lectures by well–known foreign specialists took place on the precincts of the Faculty. Let least the Nobel Prize winner in neurophysiology Prof. J. Eccles, famous specialist in psyc P. Grof, and daseins-analytic Prof. Condrau. As proposed by the Scientific Council of Facu Raimund Popper (1902–1996), epistemologist, open society proponent, one of the greatest ph the twentieth century, was awarded the degree of doctor honoris causa in medicine on 25 Ma Third Faculty of Medicine was a party in awarding a honorary doctorate to one of the disco Nobel Prize winner, Prof. James Watson. Likewise, on the occasion of the 650th anniversary University foundation, we suggested that another Nobel Prize winner, a world–wide known ne Professor Huxley from Great Britain, be also awarded a honorary doctorate in 1998. MUDr. P. Čech of our Faculty initiated the placement of honorary plaques in memory of the winners in Medicine Mr. and Mrs. Cori to their birthplace houses in Salmovska and Petrska within the project Prague–European City of Culture 2000. The co–operation among individual Faculties of the University, in particular Faculties of the increase. The University supports healthy competition in sport activities among facult also take part in various social and cultural events not only in this country but abroad. publishes VITA NOSTRA magazine, reflecting the academic life of the community and represen sides of the Faculty in two functionally distinct issues: VITA NOSTRA REVUE, a quarterly c articles, commentaries, and reflections, and VITA NOSTRA SERVIS, an information bulletin w a weekly basis. In the academic year 1991/92 the Faculty took on foreign students in General Medicine with on Prevention. The language of instruction is English. The rights and duties of foreign st stipulated in the contracts signed between the student and the Dean of the Faculty. New demands of modern medicine on doctors are reflected in the new curriculum of Medicine, Faculty has been implementing since the academic year 1996/97. The teaching basis of the 3FM CU includes the University Hospital Královské Vinohrady, Psy Praha, Hospital Na Bulovce, Thomayer Hospital, Institute for Mother and Child Care, Hospit Central Military Hospital and The National Institute of Public Health. Prominent experts o Academy of Sciences and Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine also participate i