Doctors-to-be welcomed by cheerful labs rather than drab barracks in Motol












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            17. 6. 2011, autor: P.K., rubrika: i-Forum informuje

            The new building housing the 2nd Faculty of Medicine’s theoretical institutes has been unv
            by Charles University Rector Prof. Václav Hampl along with faculty Dean doc. Ondřej Hrušák
            included an unofficial opening of an exhibition of paintings and photographs by the facult

            students as well as the MotolFest music festival.
            “Not a week goes by without a media report about the billions worth of EU structural funds
            education- and science-related construction in the Czech Republic. The news scarcely menti

            whether some excellent place is cultivated thanks to that investment. We are now opening t
            a faculty which has the best reputation among all medical faculties in the Czech Republic.

            convinced that the investment in the first construction which the faculty has completed in
            history is guaranteed to pay back,” Rector Prof. Václav Hampl said.
            The four-floor building whose façade and interior are livened up by yellow elements has be

            the site of former military buildings destroyed by fire in 2004. Students are most likely 
            the cheerful interior of the lecture hall a teaching lab equipped with all necessary facil
            Earthworm” as the building has been nicknamed has become the headquarters of as many as si

            institutes of the 2nd Faculty of Medicine.
            “This is what I would like to wish all my colleagues from the theoretical institutes who h
            teaching and researching on the old faculty premises: may they like the new premises and c

            succeed in contributing to the fame of our faculty,” the Dean of the 2nd Faculty of Medici
            said in a thank-you address to all who had contributed to the construction. He also greete
            late Prof. RNDr. Václav Pelouch in whose honour the great lecture hall has been named.

            The new modern building of the theoretical institutes has been in trial operation so far. 
            is completed following the ceremonial opening, the training of future doctors will start i
            the faculty manages to put together enough finances, it will eventually be able to join th

            the new faculty premises with the two endings of the colourful building to which the old b
            escaped fire – nicknamed by the teachers “upper and lower cigarette butt” – are linked now
            The Earthworm is not the end. The 2nd Faculty of Medicine continues building.

            “Black is all the rage in contemporary architecture but we eventually opted for the pleasa
            case of the external staircase of the Earthworm,” the Dean said commenting on the building
            elements. According to architect Ing. Arch. Jan Topinka of the Domy s.r.o. studio, they se

            separate the colour-neutral parts of the teaching rooms from the students’ premises. The c
            budget finally did not allow for the completion of the original intention to decorate the 
            with graphics by students from the studio of Prof. Rostislav Vaněk from the Academy of Art

            and Design.
            The 2nd Faculty of Medicine has so far been the only medical faculty without its own premi
            of the building of the theoretical institutes with the total area of 1692 square metres co

            first stage of the faculty’s development. The building costs reached 143 million crowns, w
            of Education, Youth and Sport contributing some 118 million. As part of the next stage, th
            is planning to build new faculty premises near the Motol University Hospital at the cost o

            crowns.
            The opening of the new building of the theoretical institutes of the 2nd Faculty of Medici
            genuinely outstanding event. The festivities included the opening of an exhibition of pain

            photographs by the faculty’s lecturers and students which is open to the public on weekday
            The official part of the festivities was followed in the evening by the traditional MotolF
            In a club appropriately called Dr. Voják (Dr. Soldier) the old military times were not men

            – bands with names like Bílá nemoc (The White Disease) or Školení sester (Nurse Training) 
            anyone in doubt as to the profession of their members.
            A list of institutes relocated to the new premises:

            The Institute of Biophysics, the Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, the Institute 
            the Institute of Histology and Embryology, the Institute of Medical Chemistry and Biochemi
            Institute of Pathological Physiology