The execution of the FM MU Dean’s Program Statement

From November, the second year commenced for prof. MUDr. Martin Repko, Ph.D. as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University. He summarized his first year’s work in a presentation at a meeting of the AS FM MU. We bring you a summary of the Dean's activities in his first year in office. The complete report will soon be available on the Faculty's website.

Representatives of the FM MU Management held a discussion with student representatives

The Faculty of Medicine is a professional Faculty and takes pride in the quality training of medical staff. The past months have been hectic, to say the least, especially so for our students. They have overcome many challenges associated with balancing work duties while simultaneously fulfilling their duties as students of the Faculty of Medicine. The Dean prof. MUDr. Martin Repko, PhD, therefore called a meeting of representatives of the Student Chamber of the Academic Senate at FM MU and representatives of associations to discuss the problem of work duty and the quality of distance studying. The Vice-Dean for the Clinical aspects of studies, prof. MUDr. Petr Štourač, PhD, and the Head of the Student Administration Department, RNDr. Ivana Pánková were also in attendance.

Dean Repko reiterated that the management’s priority is to preserve the teaching of clinical courses and the delivery of quality practical experiences. Vice-Dean Štourač explained the role of the Medical Faculty in relation to the South Moravian region and its medical facilities. He also made an appeal to students to contact him in the event of an atypical situation. From the position of the coordinator, he will take care of individual cases. Students also raised a concern with inconsistent levels of quality in education provided to them between clinics. In addition, Students raised a further concern that parties appeared disinterested in the delivery of education offered to them within FM MU. In response to these concerns, the Dean promised an active approach and solution. Both bodies consider these meetings to be of high importance and have agreed to hold regular sessions and discussions regarding the quality of education.

Evaluation of the Long-term Plan for the Faculty of Medicine MU Through the Period 2016-2020

This year, the long-term plan of the Faculty of Medicine MU for the period 2016-2020 comes to an end. During this period, the faculty focused on and evaluated itself in the following areas:

1. Updating the education of pre-clinical courses of the General Medicine study program at FM MU
2. Updating the education of clinical courses of the General Medicine study program at FM MU
3. Improvement in the quality of education within Dentistry study program at FM MU
4. Competitive non-medical study programs at FM MU
5. Improving the quality of doctoral studies at FM MU
6. Support of Science and Research at FM MU
7. Quality Administrative work, Economics, and Management
8. Functioning Legal relations

In total, 62 individual goals were achieved. 55% of these goals were fully achieved, 27% were partially achieved. 18% of the strategic goals were not achieved or could not be evaluated. Faculty authorities would like to thank everyone who was involved in the implementation of these strategic goals and those who helped develop our Faculty in the past years.

Long-term Plan for the Faculty of Medicine MU for the Period 2021-2028

In parallel to the preparation of the MU Strategic Plan, a long-term plan for the Faculty of Medicine for the period of 2021-2028 is in development. The length of the period was not decided at random, but rather, it reflects the length of the plans for the University. Faculty authorities are currently holding meetings to discuss the long-term plan, which is being prepared for seven strategic priorities. Individual goals will be prepared in December for debates taking pace in January. In January 2021 we will also present the first draft of these plans to the Heads of Clinics. Further debates will be taking place in Spring.

Faculty of Medicine MU Podcast: STETOSKOP

In June of this year, our faculty launched the first Masaryk University podcast series ever. We started the pilot episode in collaboration with our current students and dedicated it to our newcomer students. Guests from the ranks of students, recent graduates and even academics shared the podcast microphone. The academics we questioned were a specialist in gynaecology – doc. Vít Weinberg and an expert in forensic medicine prof. Miroslav Hirt. Although the podcast is primarily in Czech, we also published a story in English. A story of Michael Vladimír Fiedler in particular, a fifth-year student of General Medicine at our faculty. We are currently planning on publishing more episodes in English. Therefore, we are open for suggestions of guests (stetoskop@med.muni.cz), who could also help us set the English episodes in motion. 

Invitation to discussion: Prepared Long-term Plan of the Faculty of Medicine, MU 2021-2028, in the key areas Science and Research and Doctoral Studies

Come to discuss the topic to the meeting will take place on 15 December 2020 in lecture room B11 / 114, it is also possible to join via MS Teams.
The discussion will be divided into two thematic blocks, you can participate at the discretion of one or both meetings:
1. Doctoral studies - 13:30 - 15:00
2. Science and research, Academic environment - 15:30 - 17:00

The format of the meeting will be a moderated discussion, the outputs will be taken into account in the prepared version of the long-term plan of the Medical Faculty of Masaryk University. For more information please contact Mgr. Jana Sedláková.

Final report from the questionnaire survey of FM MU 2020

Thank you for participating in the FM MU 2020 employee survey, that was conducted this spring in connection with the long-term intention of the FM MU to support a professional, open and ethical work environment and to apply for obtaining the prestigious European HR Excellence in Research Award certificate. The results confirmed and completed the outputs of almost 100 workplaces meetings carried out last year by the HR Award team, and that brought more than 600 suggestions for improvement. We are pleased that many of the suggestions received have been resolved on an ongoing basis…

The Human Resources Department of the FM MU would like to note that in connection with the amendment to the Labour Code effective from 31st July 2020, the employer is obliged to keep a record of delivery address of their employees in order to facilitate sending labour law documents.

We therefore ask employees who have not done so yet to provide the delivery address: using an electronic application in INET contacting the HR officer of the corresponding workplace:

• using an electronic application in INET
• contacting the HR officer of the corresponding workplace

Information on changes in the monitoring of leave entitlement

In connection to the amendment to the Labour Code, effective from 1st January 2021, there are changes concerning leave pursuant to Section 211 et seq.

The main changes are:

• Leave entitlement will be calculated and recorded in hours.
• The calculation of the leave entitlement has undergone minor technical changes. The main change concerns the calculation in case of change of an employee's time.
• These adjustments will not be reflected in the method of requesting leave, the employee will continue to request days off.
• You can easily find out the number of days off as a quotient of the annual leave entitlement in hours and the agreed daily working hours.
• The payslip will include the leave entitlement and the leave used for the year 2021 in hours. If the employee has leave entitlement available for 2020, it will be stated in days.
• The obligation to exhaust the entire right to leave for the relevant calendar year remains in force - Article 23 of the Dean's Directive of the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University No. 5/2019 "On the rights and obligations of employees and the organization of work at the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University.

Educational Portal Seduo.cz

Since November, the Faculty of Medicine has been offering its employees access to online educational courses on the Seduo.cz portal as part of a trial running for one year, with a limited number of licenses available. The administrator of the Seduo.cz faculty account is the Human Resources department. The officers to contact in case of queries are Bc. Jaroslava Páleníková and Mgr. Gabriela Tomaštíková. Licenses are intended for regular employees of FM MU. The choice of courses is up to the employees and their needs. There is a requirement for the licensees, which is the active use of the portal that we will monitor. If the employee does not actively use the portal within a period of 2 months, his license will be terminated on the ground of mutual agreement and offered to other colleagues who did not get access. The announced capacity of the licenses has been filled, but in case of interest in Seduo.cz you can still sign up as a substitute, using this link. Due to the great interest, we are also currently considering the possibility of expanding the capacity of licenses.

Benefit for employees: MultiSport card

Employees have been informed via the MUNI Newsletter For Employees, sent out on 27th November 2020, about a new benefit. More information can be found via this link. In case of interest or any questions, employees can get in touch with Ing. Jaroslava Stanková.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!