From foundation to 1989 ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Ideas to expand the number of Czechoslovak universities and decentralise our higher educat taking shape before World War II. The aim was both to reach the level of some advanced Eur and to create the conditions for the intellectual potential of university faculties to bri social and moral outlook necessary for the progress of the nation to the widest possible e After the end of World War II, these ideas were updated; the fact that there was a shortag educated Prof.ssionals in the Czech Republic after the closure of Czech universities for s contributed to this. In a speech at the East Bohemian Radio on 25 July 1945, Assoc. Prof. stated, among other things, that in Belgium, Hungary and Italy, for example, there was one for every two to two and a half million inhabitants. Similarly, the President of the Czech Dr. Edvard Beneš, when receiving the Hradec Králové delegation on 10 August 1945, welcomed of establishing a medical faculty in Hradec Králové, expressed his conviction that we shou university for every two million inhabitants in the republic. *========================================================================================= * Why Hradec? *========================================================================================= The Hradec Králové branch of the Faculty of Medicine was the first newly established Czech university after the end of World War II. The question of why Hradec Králové was chosen is in detail in a separate chapter in the publication "Faculty of Medicine of Charles Univers Králové - 1945 - 1995", published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the school. Briefly said that the high scientific level of the heads of the then General Public District Hospi Králové, the support of the citizens of the town and the whole of East Bohemia and the und the administrative authorities and representatives of Charles University were all convenie The rector of Charles University, Prof. Jan Bělehrádek, fully identified with President Be decentralise Czechoslovak higher education and, moreover, he had already known the Hradec and some of its leaders (Jan Bedrna, Jan Maršálek) during the war. Prof. Josef Čančík, the Faculty of Medicine in Prague, also made great efforts to establish a branch of the Facult Hradec Králové. *========================================================================================= * Founders and first teachers of the Hradec Králové Medical Faculty *========================================================================================= In 1945, the Hradec Králové district hospital had nine primaries and was thus one of the m hospitals outside Prague, not only in terms of construction but also in terms of different care. It was also quite extraordinary that, thanks to the enlightened attitude of the dist the 1930s, there were six associate Prof.ssors, and only the occupation delayed the habili seventh. The habilitated chiefs of the Hradec Králové hospital became co-founders of the n its first teachers. They were surgeon Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Jan Bedrna, pathologist Assoc. Pr Fingerland, internist Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Pavel Lukl, gynaecologist and obstetrician Assoc. Maršálek, orthopedist Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Jaroslav Vavrda and dermatologist MUDr. Břetislav teaching staff of the branch was then supplemented according to the proposal of the Prof.s the parent Faculty of Medicine of Charles University. The immense work of the above-mentioned founders of the Hradec Králové Faculty, especially organizer, scientist and outstanding surgeon, later academician Jan Bedrna, and the uncomp of the scientificity of medical work, pathologist Prof. MUDr. Antonín Fingerland, DrSc., i detail in the publication "Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Hradec Králové - 1 The Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové was originally established as a branch of the Fa of Charles University in Prague by a decree of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic, Beneš, on 13 October 1945. The first year of activity of the Hradec Králové Medical Faculty was successful, although unfavourable post-revolutionary times. In November 1945, the following were appointed to t staff: Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Jan Bedrna for the field of surgery, Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Vladimír field of hygiene, Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Antonín Fingerland for pathological anatomy, MUDr. Li normal anatomy, Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Břetislav Janoušek for dermatology and venerology, MUDr for forensic medicine, extraordinary Prof.ssor MUDr. Zdeněk Köcher for pharmacology and ph Assoc. Prof. MUDr. RNDr. Bohumil Krajník for the field of general medical biology, Assoc. Lukl for internal medicine, Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Jan Maršálek for obstetrics and women's dis Prof. MUDr. Karel Měšt'an for the field of dentistry, full Prof.ssor MUDr. František Smetá of physiology, Assoc. Prof. MUDr. MrPh. Stanislav Škramovský for medical chemistry, Assoc. Vanýsek for the field of ophthalmology and Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Rudolf Vávra for the field o experimental pathology. The management of the psychiatric clinic was entrusted to Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Stanislav Krá children's clinic was headed by MUDr. Božena Vávrová from 22nd January 1946, after her res management of the clinic was entrusted to Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Jiří Blecha. Social medicine 25 February 1946 by Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Alois Guttwirth. For the field of orthopaedics Asso Jaroslav Vavrda. Professor MVDr. RNDr. Vlastimil Vrtiš was appointed head of histology and September 1946. The first years of the existence of the Hradec Králové branch of the Faculty of Medicine o University were characterised by the fact that in addition to teaching, scientific work an activities, all heads of departments and heads of clinics had to devote themselves to dema organisational activities. In addition, there were also tasks arising from the need to reb health care system in the region and educational and awareness-raising activities. Neverth pedagogical and scientific activities of the branch were developing successfully, and at t the Prof.ssorial staff asked the Minister of Education to finally resolve the legal status either by establishing a university in Hradec Králové or a separate medical faculty, or by branch into a regular faculty of Charles University. *========================================================================================= * Conversion of the branch to the Military Medical Academy *========================================================================================= However, instead of fulfilling this request, the branch was transformed into the Military (VLA) by order of the President of the Republic on 15 August 1951. Even with the passage o easy to evaluate the VLA era, which lasted until 1958, objectively. There was greater mate the school, and this was reflected in the possibilities and results of scientific work. Bu hand, the military-political, totalitarian management of the school, with the help of Sovi certainly not conducive to the university spirit. The years 1945-1958 in a chronological overview: • May 1945 - Assoc. Prof. Jan Maršálek and Assoc. Prof. Jan Bedrna negotiate in Prague wit Charles University Prof. Jan Bělehrádek. • 8 June 1945 - The Revolutionary City National Committee in Hradec Králové unanimously ap proposal to build a medical faculty. • July 3, 1945 - The founding protocol was signed by representatives of the Ministry of Ed University, MNV and ONV in Hradec Králové. • September 14, 1945 - during the university rally the Society for Building a University i is established. • 13 October 1945 - the President of the Czechoslovak Republic Dr. Edvard Beneš signed a d establishment of a branch of the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Hradec Krá • November 7, 1945 - the faculty activity is started, the Medical Association is establish • 25 November 1945 - the branch of the Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in Hr inaugurated with the participation of representatives of all Czechoslovak universities. • 26 November 1945 - school lectures begin.15 April 1946 - the first graduation ceremony t June 1946 - the branch is visited by the President of the Republic Dr. Edvard Beneš. • August 14, 1947 - the President of the Republic appoints 11 full and 8 extraordinary Pro • November 25, 1948 - the management of the branch asks the Minister of Education to settl status of the school (transformation of the branch into a faculty). • 1 August 1951 - by order of the President of the Republic, the branch is transformed int Medical Academy. • 31 August 1958 - by order of the Minister of National Defence, the VLA is abolished and 1958 - the school becomes a faculty of Charles University. *========================================================================================= * Again in the volume of Charles University *========================================================================================= On 31 August 1958 the VLA was abolished and the school became one of the faculties of Char Simultaneously with the civilisation of the Faculty of Medicine, the Jan Ev. Purkyně Milit Research and Training Institute - VLVDÚ JEP, after November 1989 transformed into the Jan VLA JEP. It must be said that the close scientific cooperation between the schools - the M Charles University, the VLA, the VLVDÚ JEP and the VLA JEP was beneficial. On September 1, 1958, a new period in the history of the Faculty began with the re-establi Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Hradec Kralove as one of the independent facu University. Further development of scientific and medical activities took place. Since 195 J. Procházka, DrSc. performed heart surgery using extracorporeal circulation. Under the le MUDr. R. Petr, the creator of our modern neurosurgery and later academician, the work of t clinic was successfully developed, which later resulted in the construction of a new, stat pavilion. Priority results were achieved thanks to the merit of Assoc. Prof. MUDr. J. Erbe haemodialysis treatment. At the end of the 1960s, a successful kidney transplantation was Hradec Králové. *========================================================================================= * 70s and 80s *========================================================================================= The 1970s and 1980s were a period of normalisation. The saddest aspect of this period was as a result of the normalisation measures, four Prof.ssors were deprived of their position departments, and most of the fifteen associate Prof.ssors were reassigned to the positions Prof.ssors or researchers. Many former teachers were banned from teaching and publishing. The results achieved in the 1960s were followed by teaching, research and treatment activi and 1980s. It was not an easy time for the school's activities, but fortunately, even in t Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in Hradec Králové had enough staff in its ra allow the creative activity to be deformed into a routine. The Surgical Clinic, headed by was constantly expanding the repertoire of cardiac operations, and in the field of radiolo along with improving diagnostics, therapeutic methods were also developed (e.g. the remova bloodstream before kidney surgery or targeted vascular perfusion of diseased organs with c Diagnostic imaging methods have included ultrasound and computed tomography, and endoscopi the digestive tract using fibre-optic devices has expanded, etc. After previous diplomatic negotiations, 12 members of the Faculty of Medicine and the Univ Hradec Králové were sent to Kuwait by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health Czechoslovak Republic at the direct request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Min of Kuwait. They were the first doctors from the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic who worked significantly contributed to the development of Kuwaiti health care and teaching at the ne medical faculty. The cooperation started in 1968 and is still highly appreciated. *========================================================================================= * *=========================================================================================