Decree of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Socialist Republic No. 77 / 1971 Coll.

Decree of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Socialist Republic on health professionals and other health professionals

Valid Effective from 01.09.1971
77
DECLARATION
Ministry of Health of the Slovak Socialist Republic
of 23 August 1971
on health professionals and other health professionals
The Ministry of Health of the Slovak Socialist Republic provides, in agreement with the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Socialist Republic and with other participating central bodies, pursuant to Sections 54 (1) and 58 (2) of Act No. 20 / 1966 Coll., on the care of people's health:

HLAVA PRVNÍ

HEALTH WORKERS

DÍL PRVNÍ

Health workers

Oddíl první

Categories and disciplines of healthcare professionals
§ 1
Physicians
Physicians shall carry out activities requiring higher medical education, in particular carrying out investigative procedures, shall determine diagnosis, establish a treatment plan as well as a health and anti-epidemic plan, carry out medical procedures, supervise the creation and security of healthy living and working conditions, carry out the selection of persons to be included in continuous dispensary care, impose isolation and quarantine measures, issue assessments and prescribe medicines.
§ 2
Pharmaceutical
(1) Farmers are engaged in activities requiring university pharmaceutical education, in particular in the preparation, manufacture, supply, distribution and control of pharmaceuticals and in special laboratory work.
(2) Farmers in pharmacies accept recipes and assess whether they comply with the relevant rules, prepare medicines, issue medicines after final inspection and check pharmaceutical ingredients for the preparation of medicines, etc.
§ 3
Dentists
Dentists provide outpatient preventive dental care. In doing so they are entitled to perform preservation and prosthetic dental treatment, simple tooth and root extraction and to treat chronic gingivitis. If they find that a medical procedure is necessary, they shall be required to pass on the treatment to the treated person for further professional treatment or to provide him with such treatment.
§ 4
Medium health workers
(1) Medium-sized health workers are engaged in professional activities requiring full secondary medical education, depending on the nature of the work carried out, either on their own or on the instructions of the doctor, pharmacist or, where appropriate, of another head of staff.
(2) Medium health professionals pursue their profession in the following fields: nurse, pediatric nurse, female nurse, diet nurse, rehabilitation worker, assistant hygienic services, medical technician, pharmaceutical technician, radiological technician, dental technician and ophthalmologist.
§ 5
Lower health workers
(1) The lower health care professionals shall, as instructed by the doctor, the pharmacist and under the direction of the secondary health care staff, carry out professional activities requiring secondary medical education or other medical education.
(2) The lower health professionals pursue their profession in the following fields: nurse, foster mother, dental practitioner, masseur, disinfectant, laboratory worker, autopsy laboratory-taxidermist.
§ 6
Auxiliary health workers
(1) Auxiliary medical staff shall, under the guidance of qualified professionals, undertake professional activities requiring short-term medical education.
(2) Auxiliary medical staff shall pursue their profession in the field of sanitation and sanitation for each section of the health services provided by the Ministry of Health.
§ 7
The Ministry of Health shall determine in more detail the activities of the different categories and branches of healthcare workers.

Oddíl druhý

Eligibility to pursue health professions
§ 8
Eligibility for the profession of doctor
(1) Physicians are qualified to pursue a medical profession by completing their studies and passing the prescribed examinations at the relevant medical faculties.
(2) Medical graduates of the Medical Faculty of Sanitation have competence to exercise their profession mainly in hygiene and epidemiology, and doctors graduates of the Faculty of Paediatric Medicine and the Faculty of General Medicine of the Children's Direction to pursue their profession mainly in the care of children. Physicians graduate from the Faculty of General Medicine in dental care have competence to pursue the profession of dental care, oral cavity and the organs related thereto.
(3) According to the cadre situation and needs, the Ministry of Health may, for serious reasons, grant authorisation for the exercise of a medical profession in another section of medical services to medical graduates of the Faculty of Health, the Faculty of Children's Medicine and the Faculty of General Medicine in the paediatric direction and lay down the necessary conditions.
§ 9
Eligibility to pursue the profession of pharmacist
Farmers are eligible to pursue the profession by completing their studies and passing the prescribed examinations at the Faculty of Medicine.
§ 10
Eligibility to pursue the profession of dentist
The profession of a dentist may be performed by health professionals who have acquired competence to pursue that profession in accordance with existing regulations. *)
Eligibility to pursue the profession of a secondary health worker
§ 11
(1) Medium-sized health workers are eligible to pursue the profession through the termination of their studies and through the passing of graduate examinations prescribed for each field at the secondary school. * *)
(2) The profession of a medical laboratory is also entitled to be performed by those who have completed at least four semesters of medical studies and the profession of a pharmaceutical laboratory.
§ 12
(1) Medium-sized health workers engage in professional activities in the fields for which they have acquired professional competence.
(2) Central health professionals in the field of nurses, children's nurses and women's nurses may work together in all such fields without extending their professional capacity in the other field, except for the work section set out in Annex 1. In doing so, nurses and nurses working in the field of nurses are required to take a course in the psychology and pedagogy of the child.
(3) Medium health professionals in the fields of nurses, children's nurses, female nurses, diet nurses, assistant health services and a radiological laboratory may continue to work in a field other than that for which they have acquired professional competence, in the sections of work set out in Annex 2, provided that, within two years of the date of transfer to such a section of work, they carry out external examinations on the subjects listed in that Annex at the secondary school.
§ 13
Eligibility to pursue the profession of a lower health worker
(1) Lower health professionals are eligible to pursue a profession in the field of nursing, foster, and dental education through the completion of their studies and the passing of prescribed examinations at a medical professional school. *) In other fields, they acquire professional competence by passing a long-term course according to curriculum issued by the Ministry of Health and passing prescribed examinations.
(2) The employment of a lower health worker shall also be authorised to be performed by staff who have completed a part of their secondary education, namely three years of four-year study or five-year study at work, two years of four-year study at work or three-year study at work for secondary school graduates or one year of two-year study for secondary school graduates.
§ 14
Eligibility to pursue the profession of assistant health worker
Auxiliary health workers shall acquire professional competence by taking a course according to the curriculum issued by the Ministry of Health and passing prescribed examinations.

DÍL DRUHÝ

Other health professionals
§ 15
According to the principles of effective division of labour in addition to health workers, other professionals, in particular in the field of pedagogy, psychology, natural and technical sciences, also perform the tasks in health care.
§ 16
Other health professionals are eligible to pursue the profession by studying in higher education schools or in full secondary vocational education other than medical education.

HLAVA DRUHÁ

FURTHER TRAINING OF HEALTH WORKERS

DÍL PRVNÍ

Common provisions
§ 17
(1) Further training of health professionals includes:
(a) the initial practice of medium-sized health workers;
(b) specialist training for doctors, pharmacists and medium-sized health professionals;
(c) further improvement of the knowledge of all health professionals and other health professionals.
(2) The basic form of continuing training of health professionals is independent study and acquisition of knowledge and skills under the guidance of a qualified worker.
§ 18
(1) Health professionals are required to deepen and improve their political and professional knowledge and experience during the course of their profession.
(2) Health managers at all stages are required to:
(a) ensure, under the guidance of an experienced worker, the training and evaluation of professional staff at the workplace (department); training shall, as a general rule, be carried out within the first three months after the start and shall include the acquisition of special knowledge from the operation and safety and health at work:
(b) lead their co-workers to a versatile improvement of expertise, to an increase in the ideal and professional level of their work and to respect the morale of a socialist health professional;
(c) manage the continuing training of health professionals and propose them to the relevant training events organised by the Institute for the Further Training of Doctors and Pharmaceuticals (hereinafter referred to as the Institute) or the Institute for the Further Education of Medium Health Workers (hereinafter referred to as the Institute) and, where appropriate, health facilities in the region concerned.

DÍL DRUHÝ

Further training of health workers

Oddíl první

Organisation and management
§ 19
(1) The Ministry of Health, in agreement with the Ministry of Education, manages the continuing training of health professionals and sets out its main principles in line with the development of medical, pharmaceutical and, where appropriate, other sciences and the needs of health services.
(2) Pursuant to the principles referred to in paragraph 1, the Ministry of Health and in organisations managed by other departments shall organise the continuing training of health professionals in health management organisations by the competent central authorities or bodies entrusted by them.
§ 20
The Ministry of Health shall exercise its competence in the continuing training of health workers with professional assistance or through the Institute and the Institute.
§ 21
The Institute, the Institute and the Regional Institute of National Health cooperate closely with each other on the continuing training of health workers; cooperate with the relevant medical faculties and the pharmaceutical faculty.
§ 22
The specialist training of doctors, pharmacists and medium-sized health professionals shall normally take place at the workplaces of such staff, provided that such workplaces meet the necessary requirements, if necessary, the training at the specially qualified workplaces selected for this purpose within the framework of regional and training actions at the Institute or Institute.

Oddíl druhý

Medical specialist training
§ 23
General provisions
(1) Through the specialist course, the physician receives a deeper knowledge of the professional activity and, where appropriate, of the specialised activity of a higher degree in one of the specified specialisation fields.
(2) The completion of specialist training for grade I specialisation is compulsory for doctors operating in the fields referred to in Section 24. Classification into the specialist training for higher-grade specialization is performed on a selection basis based on a comprehensive medical evaluation. In doing so, account shall be taken, in particular, of the social needs of health care and of the specific skills and assumptions of the applicants.
(3) Doctors working in national health administration organisations are included in the specialised training by the Ministry of Health and doctors working outside the state health administration by the competent central authorities or, where appropriate, by the authorities authorised by them.
§ 24
Specialization 1st and 2nd degree
(1) Physicians can obtain first degree specialization in general medicine.
(2) Grade I and II specialization may be obtained by physicians in the following fields:
Paediatric Internal Medicine
gyno and obstetrics
Surgery
urology
orthopaedic surgery
Neurology
psychiatric
dermatoserology
dentistry
otorinolaryngology
ophthalmology
Radiodiagnostic
radiotherapy
pathological anatomy
Medical Microbiology
hygiene and epidemiology
anaesthesia and resuscitation
clinical biochemistry
§ 25
Design specialization
When level 1 specialization is achieved, doctors can obtain extension specialization in the following fields:
Internal medicine
communicable diseases
cardiology
rheumatoid
juvenile medicine
Physical medicine
Endocrinology
Gastro-enterology
disorders of metabolism and nutrition
haematology and transfusion service
tuberculosis and respiratory disease
hygiene of work and occupational disease
physiatry, balneology and medical rehabilitation
allergology
Medical genetics
nuclear medicine
Paediatric
communicable diseases
paediatric cardiology
juvenile medicine
Physical medicine
Endocrinology
haematology and transfusion service
childhood tuberculosis and respiratory diseases
allergology
Medical genetics
physiatry, balneology and medical rehabilitation
Child Neurology
Children's psychiatry
Hygiene of children and adolescents
nuclear medicine
Gynecology and obstetrics
physiatry, balneology and medical rehabilitation
Surgery
pediatric surgery
thoracosurgery
neurosurgery
oral, jaw and facial surgery
plastic surgery
physiatry, balneology and medical rehabilitation
nuclear medicine
Orthopaedic disorders
physiatry, balneology and medical rehabilitation
Neurology
Child Neurology
physiatry, balneology and medical rehabilitation
Psychiatric services
Children's psychiatry
physiatry, balneology and medical rehabilitation
Dentistry
oral, jaw and facial surgery
Paradontology
jaw orthopaedic surgery
paediatric dentistry
Otorinolaryngology
Phoniatria
pediatric otorinolaryngology
Radiotherapy
nuclear medicine
Pathological anatomy
judicial medicine
Medical microbiology
Medical virology
Medical Parasitology
Hygiene and epidemiology
General and municipal hygiene

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CitationDecree of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Socialist Republic No. 77 / 1971 Coll., on health professionals and other health professionals
Regulation Type-
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CollectionCode of Laws
Date of Promulgation30.08.1971
Effective from01.09.1971
Effective until-
Status Valid
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