Exploring the Czech healthcare system
Today, May 19th, we are proud to welcome students from Texas State University to Brno and Prague, Czech Republic, for a 12-day Independent Study in Healthcare Law and Administration in the Czech Republic.
What is Czech and what is European?
The Czech Republic is a Central European country and home to 10.7 million people. The country spends less on health care than the average European union country, both in per capita terms and as share of GDP (9.5% as compared to 11.0 in the EU). Still, the Czechs’ utilization of care is high and unmet medical need is low.
In this course we will bring together US students from Texas State University with Czech institutions, health providers and experts at various academic levels to learn key facts about the Czech Republic’s healthcare system.
During the 12-day we will delve into topics such as historical and social development, governance (healthcare law, monitoring and policy, county councils, and the role of the patient), financing, and service provision (private vs. public, purchaser provider split, and public health services).
In addition, the students will broaden their knowledge of European healthcare when exploring the following question: What is Czech and what is European when it comes to healthcare system performance in the Czech Republic?
Swedish HealthCare Academy acts as both tour- and academic coordinator to ensure a highly valuable experience of learning, cultural immersion, and personal memories for the students to keep long after the course is over.
Sounds like a course for your faculty?
As we are planning to offer this course again in 2025, please contact Mr. Nils Persson of Swedish HealthCare Academy for more information!
+46-40-6118200
Speakers and organization profiles
The course features an impressive line-up of speakers from the faculties of Medicine and Law at Masaryk University (MUNI) in Brno as well as representatives from the General University Hospital in Prague, the Czech Health Insurance Bureau and cross-border health provider HEDVEA HealthCare Services.
The Faculty of Law has been established 100 years ago and it is the oldest faculty of Masaryk University. Due to its continuing efforts for internationalization and strong engagement in science and research activities, the Faculty of Law ongoingly achieves the best results out of Faculties of Law in the Czech Republic.
The Faculty of Medicine currently embraces 66 institutes and clinics, employing 1077 people, and its two teaching hospitals accommodate 3000 beds accessible for teaching. The campus provides an ideal environment for education and research utilizing outstanding equipment and some research areas include the molecular pathogenesis of diseases of civilisation, tumours, and cardiac disorders.
Situated in Prague, the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) is the leading non-university basic research public institution in the Czech Republic. The academy conducts fundamental and strategic applied research to create scientific knowledge that contributes to strengthening the nation’s position in key areas of science, and to find up-to-date solutions to contemporary problems of the society.
St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno (FNUSA) has 30 specialized workplaces and 17 centers of highly specialized healthcare. It has the status of a comprehensive cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and oncological center and the workplaces are teaching bases of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University and medical schools.
The Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MMCI) provides preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic care to adult patients with all types of solid tumors and carries out about 10 000 hospitalizations and 250 000 outpatient examinations every year. The institute also carries out basic and clinical research as well as undergraduate and postgraduate education of doctors and nurses.
About Swedish HealthCare Academy
Swedish HealthCare Academy helps educational partners to develop and deliver training. We partner with universities to design study abroad courses for students and to develop study tours and training for health care professionals. Our programmes combine lectures by leading experts with site visits to governmental institutions, hospitals, and other health care providers. Participants learn from observing health care delivery in action and enjoy the cultural experience of travelling abroad. We believe in learning through experience.
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6 个月What a great opportunity! Love Prague!