MUDr. Martin Seifert












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            Head of the Division of General Practice


            Martin Seifert graduated in general medicine at the 2nd Medical Faculty of Charles Univers
            gained his basic practice mainly at the III. internal medicine clinic, at the Department o

            and other workplaces of the General University Hospital in Prague. He then worked for over
            Department of Neurological Rehabilitation in Regensburg, Germany. Only there did he defini
            devote his professional life to primary care and returned to his home in Prague. He specia

            Practice in 2015.


            As part of postgraduate education, he completed, among many other professional courses, th
            Myoskeletal Medicine and the Course of Basic Psychosomatic Care. In September 2017, he com
            year psychotherapeutic psychodynamic training focusing on psychosomatics. Since then, he h

            psychosomatic and psychotherapeutic practice. In 2019, he acquired the specialization dipl
            of Psychosomatic Medicine. He has been working on psychosomatic issues for years. In 2023,
            author and the team-coordinator of the Guidelines for General Practitioners on Functional 

            somatic symptoms: Psychosomatic approach. He also wrote chapters on communication, core va
            psychosomatic medicine in the two editions of the book General Practice (Galén, 2019 and 2
            Textbook Primary care for students. As part of his postgraduate studies, he does research 

            medical care of the patients with persistent somatic symptoms and their GPs.

            Since July 2013, he has been working in Karlín, Prague, as a general practitioner in his o

            he works as a psychosomatic physician. Since 2014 he has been teaching General Practice an
            medicine at the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles Universtiy. Since February 2020, he has b
            the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, as the head of the Division of General 

            founded and whose activities he enthusiastically develops.

            He used to be and active member of the Council of the Young GPs. Currently, he is a member

            Accreditation commitee for General Practice of the Ministry of Health and a national repre
            EGPRN Council. He lectures at Czech and international conferences and greatly appreciates 
            all over the world, especially among family and general practitioners, whose offices he al

            internships. Besides work, he loves his family, music, mountains and yoga under the guidan
            Čumpelík, Ph.D.