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Michal Návoj, MD, from the Tomáš Bata Regional Hospital in Zlín, graduated from our faculty in 2019 and became the 100th participant of the compulsory pre-testing course Simulation of Critical Conditions at the MU Faculty of Medicine Simulation Centre (SIMU).

For the students of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University, the weekend around World Health Day means big preparations for the two-day event in the Olympia shopping centre, so that they can reach as many visitors as possible with prevention at the stations. This year, around 1,500 students stopped by to see the students! Before the event, they have to train all the volunteers involved, prepare the devices, prepare materials and gifts. Systemic prevention is the foundation of solid health, and they are holding a similar event in the fall for World Diabetes Day.

On Thursday afternoon, 13th April, Svobody Square was transformed into a large health clinic. The Brno Prevention Days, a campaign organised by the Brno City Council in cooperation with other partners, started here. Its aim is to provide the public with information on how to take care of their health while preventing various diseases.

In Healthy Brno Healthy Tooth is the name of the event, thanks to which the general public has the chance not only to try out free training in proper oral hygiene, but also to expand their awareness of it and the diseases associated with it. Fifty students of Dentistry at the Faculty of Medicine at Masaryk University in Brno took up this awareness-raising event on 12th April at Brno's Liberty Square, where they captivated over a thousand citizens of all ages throughout the day.

Dorian Goueytes has chosen Milan Brazdil’s team at I^st Neurology Department of the Faculty of Medicine MU and St. Anne’s University Hospital for his Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dorian is part of Nathan Faivre's team at the Laboratory of Psychology and Neurocognition at the Université Grenoble-Alpes, France.

Dale Kalina, a Canadian infectious disease specialist, came to lecture to international students at Masaryk University's Faculty of Medicine. Years ago, he used to be one of them.

Just like last year, the university campus in Brno Bohunice will be dedicated to sports and entertainment in mid-May. However, just as the campus itself is growing, this year the traditional Campus Day is also taking on a new dimension, as it will no longer be reserved for campus representatives only, but for the very first time all faculties of Masaryk University will be involved. It only makes sense that this year we will be playing sports and having fun together under the banner of MUNI Day.

He says that a machine, or rather the much talked about artificial intelligence, can never replace human contact. Yet doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D., Head of the Institute of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics at the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University, received the Czech DIGI@MED Award, awarded annually by the biotechnology company Roche for innovative digital and mobile solutions in the field of healthcare. The judges of the competition praised MOU's Mind Care app, which he and his team developed with the ambition of bringing mental health support principles literally to people's homes through eight-week therapy programmes. At the current stage, only patients at the Masaryk Cancer Institute are able to use the app, but the authors' goals go beyond a single diagnosis. Although the words of Associate Professor Světlák convey concepts such as humanity and empathy, he also sees enormous potential in eHealth, or the use of information technology in healthcare, which can ultimately benefit both healthcare professionals and patients. How to fulfil it? What kind of psychological care do doctors provide to cancer patients? To what extent can computerisation relieve overstretched medical staff? And is it even possible to relax with a mobile phone in hand?

Take a look at what the year 2022 brought in the field of research and development at the Faculty of Medicine MU. What awaits us in 2023? Take a short look back at the past year.

With the public availability of tools like Midjourney or ChatGPT, the topic and ideas about the possibilities of using artificial intelligence are beginning to permeate the general public. Meanwhile, those who fell for the fascination with smart algorithms a little earlier are implementing projects that a few years ago were only portrayed in science fiction stories. The autonomous recovery modules familiar from films such as Alien or Elysium may only really be imaginable on screen, but in diagnostics, for example, AI has experienced a steep rise in the last few years. As it turns out, it can save time and money, which can play a significant role in the face of challenges related to an aging population and a shortage of medical personnel. One of those who have joined the digital health race is Mgr. Daniel Kvak. A student of the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University, where he is working on the use of machine learning in audio-visual, but also the driving force behind the company Carebot, under whose name he is breaking into medical practices. The rise of the ambitious start-up is as precipitous as the cadence with which the young entrepreneur spouts medical concepts indistinguishable from those of a medical professional, and what began during the COVIDU-19 pandemic with a system for classifying lung X-rays is now scaling to other disciplines. One of the projects that Carebot's growing team is working on is a tool for recognizing skin melanomas, especially in patients with darker skin tones. "I was surprised that when Google released the DermAssist app, they didn't take much account of skin tone, when I think it's the most important factor," Kvak observes. After all, the need to learn from mistakes and be as practical as possible is emphasised several times in the interview. That his efforts make sense is confirmed, among other things, by his recent award at the MICAD conference, which focused specifically on computer systems that help with the interpretation of medical images.