Czech Hospital Placements Program

The pandemic of COVID-19 exposed, apart from the fragility of national healthcare systems, how essential the soft skills of healthcare professionals are. That is why we put together a series of talks with experts on current topics based on their own professional experience while giving the best practice for health providers.

The first guest of CHP Program's Better Health Care Professional Podcast is MUDr. Radek Mounajjed DDS., Ph.D., FAP., a specialist in dental prosthodontics and head doctor in DCM dental clinic in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Apart from being the first Czech stomatologist to give lectures at the Mayo Clinic or Harvard School of Dental Medicine, he teaches externally at the University of Toronto or the Palackého University.

Doctor Mounajjed is the coordinator of the initiative Doctors help Czechia (Lékaři pomáhají Česku) that innovatively organized testing and vaccination in the Czech Republic. What has motivated this group of healthcare professionals to help the state and the Czech community outside their daily jobs at the healthcare facilities? What obstacles have they faced and why?

How will education in the healthcare field develop? What makes a great healthcare provider? And much more on skills we would have wished to learn during our university studies with doctor Radek Mounajjed.
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Current situation on the Czech Republic's COVID map. From which countries can you travel easily without any restrictions? Via expats.cz

Canada goes green, Portugal red on new Czech Covid-19 travel map Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo and Latvia will also go green, while Cyprus and the Balearic Islands move to high-risk red.

Looking forward to our new group of students! :-)

🌈 Prague airport looking particularly lovely this morning.
Photo via Jíťa Kotlínová

Read the student review by Hannah Martin who shadowed the healthcare professionals in the Children's Heart Center and Obstertics and Gyneacology Specialized Center.
"The day before I flew to Prague to attend the Czech Hospital Placements program, I thought I was certain in my desire to become a doctor. During the ensuing two weeks, I realized that I had never truly understood the lifestyle that is practicing medicine. On the final day of my placement, I called my parents and told them, with more conviction and certainty than ever before, that I was going to be a doctor."

https://www.chpprogram.com/Blog/Detail/76/On-the-Final-Day-Of-My-Placement-I-Called-My-Parents-And-Told-Them-With-More-Conviction-And-Certainty-Than-Ever-Before-That-I-Was-Going-To-Be-A-Doctor