[Suggested low vision care for visually impaired children in Slovakia].

Introduction: There is currently no system of registration for visually impaired children in Slovakia and the current prevalence of visual impairment (VI), low vision and blindness is unknown for this population. We propose a template for a process of registration of visually impaired children in Slovakia as well as a system for the Low Vision Health Core for this population.

Material And Methods: Based on a literature search, we report our data of the estimated prevalence of VI in children in Slovakia and the number of registered students with VI.

[Improvement in the outcome of visual impairment using low vision aids in children].

Introduction: Low visual aids (LVAs) are the simplest and the most economic method of reducing the consequences of visual impairment (VI). We evaluate prescribing of LVAs in order to improve the quality of life of visually impaired children.

Material And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the notes of 113 patients (pts.

Realisation of Bologna Declaration at the Slovak medical schools.

Implementation of Bologna Declaration should result in development and facilitating of the education system. Following tasks need to be done: (1) Establish committees of expert, at the level of institutes, schools and universities, which would compare and harmonize syllabus and credits of individual courses with the aim to maximally support students' and teachers' mobility. (2) It is necessary to re-evaluate the transformation of medical education in Slovakia in the near future, so as key identical courses within Slovak schools of medicine have similar syllabus, number of hours and number of given credits.

Position of information science in the medical and health studies curricula.

Innovation of both the content and forms of informatics teaching directed on exploitation of technical facilities and methods of information and communication technologies (ICT) in non-informatics universities study programmes and in life-long education is still actual today. Expanding knowledge base of the life and health sciences requires to form new skills to educate the end-users and facilitate an immediate information access. Theoretical and practical teaching in pregradual medical and health studies includes the basic contacts of students with the modern technique and special medical devices supported or completed by computers.

The role of medical physics in the scheme of diagnostic and therapeutic processes by keeping safety and hygienic regulations.

According to Standards of European Union the pregradual education should tend toward preparation of multidisciplinary working teams that can manage the health service using principles of evidence-based medicine, nowadays. The primary aims of teaching process is to direct the students to acquire, identify, analyze, process and select the reproducible results of physical measurements, to that the medical interpretation will be assigned. Our scientific research was directed at the existing conditions for professional use of different types of medical technique in the surgical and internal disciplines in health service institutions in all the regions of Slovakia.