Practical Points

HEALTH INSURANCE AND MEDICAL CARE FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING STUDENTS

All students are obliged to have a valid health insurance during their stay in the Czech Republic.

Students from EU countries holding a „Blue European Insurance Card“ should register their health insurance cards at the VZP Insurance Company:

Sady 5.května 59, Pilsen

Tel: 952 222 222

http://www.vzp.cz/o-nas/pobocky/plzensky-kraj/4400-plzen

This registration is for free. It is necessary and obligatory in order to get a medical care in the Czech Republic.

Please bear in mind, that your European health card insurance (or with the E111 form and Provisional certificate) don’t cover non-urgent treatment, or medically assisted transport home following serious illness or injury entitles and for these eventualities we recommend you take out extra medical or commercial travel insurance with an insurance provider in your home country.

Students from non-EU countries do not register their insurance cards. They solve the payment for medical services directly with their insurance company according their insurance conditions. (These students must have a valid international medical insurance plan, or they must expect to pay cash for all medical care.)

In case of health problems please contact and arrange your appointment by:

MUDr. Vojtěch. FN Plzeň – Bory, Building 65,

tel. 377 401 541, e-mail: VOJTECHV@fnplzen.cz

Opening hours:

During their first year of study, students will be called by the Faculty to undergo a preventive initial medical examination. A valid vaccination against Hepatitis B and Measles are necessary, if studying Medicine at our Faculty.

STUDENT ISIC CARD AND PASSWORD FOR FACULTY SYSTEMS

ISIC CARD

CU-ISIC cards are issued to students by their 1st year enrollment. The price for issuing a card is 230,- CZK.

The extension of the CU-ISIC card validity/licence (which is marked on the reverse of the card by a silver holographic sticker) is charged by a fee of 230,- CZ too and is processed annually, after students enrollment into the next year of study. ISIC Card without a valid licence is automatically discarded from the ISIC database and is not accepted by any ISIC cotractor. Holders of ISIC are allowed to use students discounts (e.g. for flytickets, bus tickets, for entry to exhibitons, museums, etc.) in the Czech Republic and also abroad.

PASSWORD FOR FACULTY SYSTEMS

Together with their ISIC card students obtain their login and password into the UK CAS (Charles University Authentication Service).

This password is just temporary and valid for 5 days only. Setting the contemporary password immediatelly according the instructions at https://ldap.cuni.cz is necessary!

This password is used by entering the Study Information System – SIS and  Charles Univerity Authentication Service – CAS.

STUDY INFORMATION SYSTEM – SIS

Study Information system – SIS – is an internet apllication containing, gathering and saving all information regarding your study a tour Faculty. There you can also set or change some of  your personal data (address, contact email etc.). Some personal data can be changed upon your request by the Study Department only.

Via SIS you register for  your examinations and core-elective subjects. In this system you display your timetables and detailed information about subjects. Beside the Faculty websites and another Faculty information sources you are also informed about news and changes regarding the teaching and study life via this system.

Registration data necessary forlogin and  entering the SIS are given to student  immediatelly after their 1st year enrollment (see the article Student ISIC card and password for Faculty Systems).

INTERNET CONNECTION

In all Faculty buildings is possible to connect and use the wifi EDUROAM.

It is necessary to set the access via webpages of the UK CAS  - Charles University Authentication Service.

After login into the CAS (with a login and password obtained by the enrollment), in the column on the left side of the webpage you find a link Set the Eduroam password. Detailed instructions how to comnnect find at webpage http://eduroam.lfp.cuni.cz .

A wifi EDUROAM connection is possible to use in all conncted institutions all over the Czech Republic. A map of places where you can connect find also at http://eduroam.flp.cuni.cz .

ELECTRONIC LEARNING SOURCES

MEFANET

A portal of electronic educational materials  https://mefanet.lfp.cuni.cz/  . It is a unified internet source of study materials for all students of Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen with the access for authorised users (students, teachers) only. The access is possible via CAS account (obtained by the 1st year enrollment and validated by the student).All materials are published in a modern format in a clearly structured system unified for all Medical Faculties in the Czech Rebublic and Slovakia.

MOODLE

Electronic educational system Moodle (LMS/Learning Management System/Moodle) is dedicated to support present and distance formo f teaching via online courses. This system is used for a basic electronic support of the present teaching, for a hybrid electronic and present format of teaching and e-learning courses. Register with the CAS account at  http://lms.lfp.cuni.cz .

AMBOSS

From their 3rd year of study, students of Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen have a possibility of access to the Amboss database via their personal Amboss accounts.

E-LEARNING TEAM

A Faculty e-learning team provides technical and methodical support to authors and teachers by creating teaching materials, recording of seminars and professional events etc. An important part of this team are students themselves. Within the elective subject Student pedagogical and publicity engagement they are actively participating on production and postproduction of teaching materials.

STUDY LITERATURE

Recommended study literature is available at the Study Information System (SIS) by each particular mandatory or core-elective subject https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/predmety/index.php

Faculty does not provide the students with study books. The students should find and buy the recommended study books themselves. We recommend the Oxford Bookshop in Pilsen
Dřevěná street 8, 301 00 Pilsen, e-mail: plzen@megabooks.czTIMETABLES

Teaching in each appropriate semester (Winter/summer) is organised according to a timetable.

https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/rozvrhng/roz_student_macro.php?skr=2020&sem=1&fak=11140

For their practicals and lessons, students are divided into groups. Lectures are organised for all students of the whole year of study together. Timatable of practical lessons is different for each group. Inclusion in the group is binding for the whole time of your studies. A change of the study group is possible due to serious reasons (prefferably health reasons) only, based on request submitted to the Study Department.

CONTACTS TO DEPARTMENTS AND CLINICS

Contacts to Departments and Clinics, their management and employees (e.g. your teachers and guarantors of subjects) find on our websites http://www.lfp.cuni.cz/kontakty/.

1. Grab a requested item CLINICS or DEPARTMENTS.
2. Grab a name of the Clinic or Department what are you looking for.
3. After grabbing a red link Directory list (WHOIS) you are redirected to the University contact portal and shown all contacts of the appropriate Department or Clinic.
4. By grabbing a certain name from the list of employees, it appears a direct contact to this person.

BUILDINGS AND LECTURE ROOMS OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE IN PILSEN

 Practical teaching takes place at the appropriate Departments or Clinics.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO FACULTY BUILDINGS - DIRECTION FROM THE CENTRE OF PILSEN

to buildings PRO, PAV, PAV B, CH 1-3

Tram Nr. 1 – direction Bolevec, exit „Lékařská fakulta“

Tram Nr. 4 – direction Košutka, exit „Zoologická zahrada“

to buildings ŠAF, ŠAF 1-5, 302, ŠAF A, B, C

Tram Nr. 1 – direction Bolevec, exit „U Gery“

Tram Nr. 4 – direction Košutka, exit „U Družby“

to Faculty campus UNIMEC

Tram Nr. 1 – direction Bolevec, exit „Lékařská fakulta“ or exit „U Gery“

to buildings ŠIK, P4

Trolley bus Nr. 16 – Direction Sídliště Bory (housing estate Bory), exit „Nemocnice Bory“

to buildings P1 INTERNAL MEDICINE, AULA, MOST SURGERY, MOST IMMUNOLOGY

Tram Nr. 1 – direction Bolevec, exit „U Gery“

Bus nr. 33, direction Sídliště Košutka (housing estate Košutka), exit „Nemocnice Lochotín“