Slovak Medical University

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The Slovak Medical University in Bratislava (SMU) is an educational institution proudly keeping the education of healthcare workers in specialized studies and continuous lifelong education in Slovakia.

The Faculty of Health is part of and inspired by the Slovak Medical University's mission and goals in Bratislava. The Faculty of Health has the ambition to provide quality education to students of Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Urgent Medical Care. In the long term, the Faculty aims to offer education in all desired health care areas as demanded by future health care practice.

The Faculty's mission is to raise professionals with the required health care education, who will not only be theoretically and practically empowered, but also will uphold the moral and ethical values of civic responsibility, democracy, humanism, and tolerance develop scientific knowledge in the areas subject to study, especially Nursing, Midwifery, Physiotherapy, and Urgent Medical Care prepare graduates to take an active and professional part in health care in all its forms, in order for them to protect and promote civic health in regions and communities accept directives of the European Union in the undergraduate study for health care workers earning their essential qualification, so that they may receive an education compatible with the education of health care workers in Europe, and that they may attend student exchanges. In order to meet these goals, the Faculty will cooperate with other faculties of similar focus and mission, both at home and abroad.

The University's mission is to ensure high-quality education and scientific knowledge in health development, promotion, and protection and prevention, diagnostic methods, treatment, and nursing to protect and promote health as one of the ultimate human values.

The University intends to fulfill its mission by developing higher education in study programs of all three tiers, specialization studies, and continuous education in all medical, pharmaceutical, dental, and paramedical (health) studies and conducting research in both medical and pharmaceutical sciences. Implementing up-to-date knowledge in medical sciences is an indivisible part of the University mission.

The University offers education to students preparing for different occupations as healthcare professionals in accredited study programs of pre-graduate (Bc., Mgr. and MUDr.) and postgraduate (PhD., specialized and certification study) through a creative research approach in health care science to improve health and quality of life.

The University offers the advantage of specialized training facilities, university clinics, university pharmacies, specific facilities, teaching sites, public health authorities, and another ambulatory, institutional and pharmaceutical healthcare facilities accredited by the University, to provide research, scientific and educational opportunities in order to fulfill the mission of the University.

The Slovak Medical University in Bratislava is the only University in Slovakia that provides monothematic education for healthcare professions in all three degrees of higher education, and at the same time, the only institution that has guaranteed complex education of healthcare workers in Slovakia under various names since 1953.

The Slovak Medical University is a public institution of higher education acting under the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, with the following four faculties:

• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Public Health
• Faculty of Nursing and Professional Health Studies
• Faculty of Health

The Slovak Medical University is a non-political institution, acting within the Magna Charta Universitatum global university charter, recognizing democracy, humanism, and tolerance. It leads students towards adherence to the Hippocratic Oath, protection of life, and health from conception until dignified natural death.

To provide postgraduate education to physicians, pharmacists, and other health workers with higher education following UEMS recommendations and relevant EU directives. To participate in continuous medical education.

The University has expanded its activities to form an institution of high academic and scientific standing in Slovakia and internationally. The University encourages international cooperation and fosters relations with other European universities and scientific institutions.

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