Students of the Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine and the Third Faculty of Medicine and students of the Czech Technical University won the Hack for Healthcare hackathon in Zurich, Switzerland.

On 4 November, the physician and teacher of the Department of Infectious Diseases and chairman of the Faculty Academic Senate won the President's Award of the Czech Medical Chamber for his contribution to lifelong education of physicians.

A doctoral student from the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology - CLIP Group won first prize at an international postgraduate conference in Hradec Králové, which took place on 25 and 26 November 2021.

The Academic Senate of the Second Faculty of Medicine elected Professor Marek Babjuk as Dean of the Second Faculty of Medicine. The four year term begins on 1 February 2022.

Charles University will make every effort to maintain in-person instruction as much as possible. However, we cannot predict at this time how the epidemiological situation will develop. Please find below recommendations concerning both in-person instruction and the potential transition to distance learning.

The rules for travellers with several links to Czech websites. September 2021.

During July, medical students from foreign universities trained as part of the IFMSA exchange program at the departments of the Second Faculty of Medicine and the Motol University Hospital. At the end of their internship they presented their experiences from various departments in selected case reports.

Marcela Remeňová (a student of General Medicine) writes a continuing fantasy/sci-fi series called Eight Worlds. We caught up with her at the start of her first semester to discuss her writing – and more.

Many exchange students visit the Second Faculty and Motol University Hospital every year under the IFMSA, Erasmus and other schemes. We appreciate they chose just this faculty and asked some of them what they like about the place and Prague and what they would recommend to other incoming students.