Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 22 No. (1-2), 1990.
Editorial
An essay on developmental trends of medical schools in Croatia
Zdenko Kovač
Abstract
Medical faculties have traditionally been leading institutes for biomedical research. A unique opportunity of treating the problem from the molecular to the organic, functional and clinical level gives medical schools an advantage of integral approach to biomedical problems. Due to such wide approach, medical schools’ professionals are confronted with very heterogenous educational demands. At the same time, very rapid development of molecular biology has generated a substantial body of data, through which classical knowledge is to be reinterpreted. Medical faculties in Croatia are presently faced with several Groups of problems: economic, laboratory equipment and training shortages, as well as a lack sense of competitive academic excellence. Following the release from the political and social influences of one party dominance, faculties are facing the problems of establishing competitive market principles in their economic background. The author analyzes scientific trends and their influences on medical schools. A triple function, comprising teaching, scientific research and the treatment of diseases, which constitutes the basic premises of university teaching hospitals, requires a specific hospital position in the public emergency health system, as well as additional individual professional efforts. University teaching hospitals are the institutes for specified nosologic entities and therefore public health system should be adjusted to its institutional approach to the problem. The author outlines the guidelines for the medical schools’ and teaching hospitals’ development, which are postulated with specific reference to the present status and problems of the health system and faculties in Croatia.
Keywords
university teading hospital; school medical; science
Hrčak ID:
196098
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1990.
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