These are the most frequently asked questions and answers related to COVID-19 coronavirus infection of UPJS LF employees and students...
Updated: 7.5.2020
The Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ has raised the hygienic standard of cleaning and increased the number of dispensers for disinfectants at the busy places as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus. The permises with a high frequency of movement of people were disinfected on Friday, March 6, 2020...
The Board of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ decided that due to the current epidemiological situation regarding coronavirus infection - COVID-19, all ERASMUS+ incoming applications will be assessed individually with respect to the applicant's country of origin.
The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ prof. Daniel Pella, M.D. PhD. participated in a meeting with Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini with the representatives of the Slovak medical faculties at the Government Office of the Slovak Republic on Friday, January 31, 2020...
The Open Day again attracted several hundred high school students to the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ. About five hundred students interested in study at our faculty came to see the presentation of the study on Thursday, January 30, 2020...
The ceremonial session of the Academic Board of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, where prof. Maciej Banach, M.D., PhD was awarded the honorary degree of “Doctor Honoris Causa“ of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice to on the proposal of the Faculty of Medicine, UPJŠ took place in the Historical auditorium, Rectorate of UPJŠ, Šrobárova 2 street, Košice on Monday, January 27, 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...
Due to the conclusions from the meeting of the Central Crisis Staff of the Slovak Republic, the decision of the Chief Public Health Officer of the Slovak Republic and the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport, to which the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Slovak Republic ordered to discontinue the full-time presence study in the implementation of study programs until March 27th, 2020...
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...
If necessary, our students are ready to give the helping hand to medical facilities when testing patients for the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus by treating patients or any other suitable way. Since Tuesday, 17 March 2020, medical aid has been needed to select patients at the central reception of the L. Pasteur University Hospital in Košice, as well as to manage patients who have contacted the Call Center and are planning to visit the hospital...