♦ NEW!  Rector's Order No. 2/2021 for the implementation of teaching and implementation of work activities in the period from January 25, 2021 at UPJŠ in Košice
♦ Rector's order No 1/2021 for the implementation of teaching and implementation of work activities in the period from January 4, 2021 at UPJŠ in Košice
♦ Rector's order No 21/2020 for the implementation of teaching and implementation of work activities in the period from December 21, 2020 at UPJŠ in Košice and its parts

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The merit scholarship of the Faculty of Medicine of UPJŠ in Košice is awarded for excellent fulfillment of study obligations in the previous academic year in accordance with Art. 4 of the Scholarship Regulations of the Faculty, to a maximum of ten percent of students, except for the third-level students.

♦ NEW!  Rector's order No 20/2020 for the implementation of teaching and implementation of work activities in the period from November 16, 2020 at UPJŠ in Košice and its parts
♦ Rector's order No 19/2020 for the implementation of teaching and implementation of work activities in the period from November 9, 2020 to November 14, 2020 at UPJŠ in Košice and its parts
♦ Rector's order No 18/2020 for the implementation of teaching and implementation of work activities in the period from November 2, 2020 to November 8, 2020 at UPJŠ in Košice and its parts

If you suspect COVID-19 infection and have symptoms such as cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, fever, we recommend that you do the following...

ATTENTION! The update of the modifications of teaching starting from October 13, 2020.
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The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ prof. Daniel Pella, M.D., PhD. has ordered the implementation of teaching exclusively in a distance form, effective from Monday, September 28, 2020. This regulation shall apply until further notice. Any further guidelines will be issued after the publication of the new regulations of the Central Crisis Team of the Slovak Republic...

Academic Senate UPJŠ MF canceled the date of additional elections to the student part of the Academic Senate of UPJŠ FM, which was set for 14 October 2020 ...

Christmas and New Year's speech given by the dean of UPJS MF prof. MUDr. Daniel Pella, PhD ...

The LYNX company operating in the field of information technologies awarded the best diploma thesis at the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ. The winner for the Academic Year 2019/2020 was a student of the 6th year of study Katarína Pitoráková. The theme of the thesis was "Neoadjuvant Oncotherapy for Rectal Cancer", and she drew it up under the supervision of Andrej Vrzgula, M.D, Ph.D.

The biochemist Pavol Čekan, who participated in the development of Slovak PCR tests to detect a new coronavirus causing COVID-19 infection, visited the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ on Friday, October 16, 2020...

The Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ takes a responsible approach to the risk of spreading the new coronavirus and provided free of charge testing for its foreign students by the highly sensitive RT PCR method. The Faculty ordered testing for each of its international students prior to a teaching period, involving approximately 1,300 students.

On Monday, August 31, representatives of the national clinical research infrastructure SLOVACRIN based at the FM of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice together with the State Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak Republic Ľudovít Paulis attended a meeting with representatives of the Czech Ministry of Education...

The graduation ceremony of fresh graduates of the study programmes Physiotherapy, Nursing Care, Public Health, General Medicine in Slovak Language, Dental Medicine in Slovak language, General Medicine in English Language, and Dental Medicine in English Language took place on July 09 and July 10, 2020...

The information about the development of the artificial lung ventilation PMLV, which pushes the limits of lung ventilation in critically ill patients, was provided at the briefing which was held in front of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ on Thursday, April 2, 2020...

Dear colleagues, dear students,
please, first of all, let me greet our pedagogues in occasion of "the Date of Teachers". I am writing you  in this extraordinary situation when we  are working in a very different mode than usual. The distance method of study, leaded since March 10, 2020, due to the threat of spreading of a new coronavirus, is unmatched  in its history, and demanded by a need to protect each other from the deadly threat...

The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ prof. Daniel Pella, M.D., PhD. awarded ten students for their excellent study results and five students for their active volunteering in COVID-19 testing on the occasion of the International Students’ Day...

The Academic Senate of UPJŠ LF expresses its gratitude to all volunteers from the ranks of employees and students of UPJŠ LF ...

 The Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice organized three-day testing for COVID-19 for the employees, their family members, and students in the premises of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ from October 30, 2020, to November 1, 2020. There were tested about 2,500 people, of whom five hundred were international students...

The students of the FM UPJŠ are ready to help with mass testing of Slovaks for COVID-19 on October 31, 2020, and November 01, 2020, and November 7-8, 2020. About a hundred of them have already passed the general exam thanks to pilot testing in the Bardejov district. The members of the student part of the Academic Senate of the FM UPJŠ helped with the recruitment of candidates to the sampling teams and several of them also tried testing

Students of the Faculty of Medicine of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice help people without a home in a project called  „Homeless not hopeless“. They perform regular screening in a facility for people without home Oáza near to Košice. Their 10-member team has made 3 visits in this shelter, during which the students of General medicine UPJŠ FM took an anamnesis of clients and did a basic medical examination...

While the lecture rooms of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ were empty most of the summer semester because of the situation with the new coronavirus, they were filled with non-traditional students on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. The Faculty blossomed out with children's laughter, as it was visited by 36 primary school pupils in the frame of the project University without Border, UPJŠ 2020.

On 14th of July the President of the Slovak Republic, Zuzana Čaputová, appointed 54 new university professors, including the employees of the Faculty of Medicine, prof. PhDr. Anna Bérešová, PhD. (in the field of social work) and prof. František Sabol, M.D., PhD. MPH MBA (in the field of surgery). Congratulations!

The Faculty of Medicine of UPJŠ in Košice lent to the University Hospital of L. Pasteur Košice the necessary equipment to work in the laboratory in the diagnosis of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 causing the disease COVID-19. These are two laminar boxes from the Faculty of Medicine originally purchased for scientific purposes, one provided from the Associated Tissue Bank and the other from the Institute of Medical and Clinical Microbiology...