Author/Editor		Zupanič-Slavec, Zvonka
Title		Devetdeset let Medicinske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (1919‐2009)
Translated title		Ninety Years of the Ljubljana Faculty of Medicine (1919‐2009)
Type		članek
Source		Zdrav Vestn
Vol. and No.		Letnik 78, št. 11
Publication year		2009
Volume		str. 659-72
Language		slo
Abstract		The early beginnings of Slovenian medicine lie in the Enlightenment-era Academia operosorum (Academy of the Industrious) and its medical section with the physician Marko Gerbec. In 1782, a lyceum for medicine and surgerywas established in Ljubljana, the first to provide a secondary level of medical education. Later on, when Slovenia was part of the Illyrian Provinces, the school advanced to the level of a medical faculty, but the subsequent reassertion of Austrian control over the Illyrian Provinces prevented the school from completing even the first class of graduates’ training. In 1848, Slovenians lost its medical lyceum and only midwifery schools remained. It was only at er the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy that a preparatory medical faculty ofering four preclinical semesters was established in 1919. In 1940, the faculty also added a fifth and sixth semester. h e postwar impetus led classrooms, and rooms for clinical practice. In the next decade, in 1987, the main preclinical institutes moved to the new building of the Faculty of Medicine and students i nally received state-of-the-art lab classrooms, facilities, and other infrastructure. h roughout the years the program has continued to change and stay up to date, and new Bologna-style degree programs was implemented in the 2009/10academic year. In its ninety years of existence, the Faculty of Medicine has trained approximately 7,000 physicians and 1,500 dentists, and awarded more than 750 doctorates in the graduate program for physicians and dentists; it has also trained many students in graduate clinical training programs. h e Faculty of Medicine is oriented towards the future, a strong connection between theory and practice, interdisciplinary and international cooperation, and especially training new top-quality medical professionals. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters).
Descriptors		FACULTY, MEDICAL STUDENTS, MEDICAL STUDENTS, DENTAL EDUCATION, MEDICAL EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE