Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2011
Abstract
The chapter deals with beginnigs of teaching Latin (Greek and Latin medical terminology) at Faculty of General Medicine in Prague at the end of 50ies and in the beginning of 60ies. As a result of educational reforms after the World War II Latin virtually disappeared from the Czech and Slovak high schools and the students entering the Faculty of Medicine had no or minimal knowledge of Latin, which caused problems in teaching proper medical subjects, especially in anatomy.
As a logical consequence of this situation the compulsory courses of Latin were established.