{"id":2597,"date":"2019-10-07T20:50:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.szinapszis.org\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2019-10-07T20:50:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:50:29","slug":"health-education-on-all-fronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hok\/en\/2019\/10\/07\/health-education-on-all-fronts\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Education on all Fronts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Faculty of Health Sciences\u2019 building on Vas street is one of the world\u2019s most beautiful university buildings, and behind its archaic gate lies the stage of high-level health education. We talked to Edina Vajdu, the current faculty chairperson of the Students\u2019 Union (H\u00d6K).<\/span><\/i>
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\nSzinapszis: What best characterizes this faculty?<\/b>
\nEdina Vajda: <\/b>I think it\u2019s the friendly, familiar atmosphere. I first felt this when I visited the 2017 open-day as a high school student. My opinion stayed the same ever since: whatever the problem may be, it\u2019s always easy to find a helping hand.<\/span>
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\nSz.: Students attend a wide range of training in this faculty: much like in other universities students are divided into departments. Could you tell us about this?<\/b>
\nE. <\/b>V.: <\/b>We certainly have a big variety of departments, in fact, starting in 2019 a new course has started: voice, speech, and swallowing therapy. Those who are accepted to this course get to pick their specialization when they\u2019re applying. The advantage of this is that besides preparatory subjects, they can take professional subjects in their first term.
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\nSz.: The students of this faculty are in almost every field, from primary and hospital care, rehabilitation, intensive care, all the way through health maintenance and protection. How does the faculty try to preserve these many values?<\/b>
\nE. <\/b>V.: <\/b>Every department teaches hospital care, rehabilitation, and prevention in relation to their own fields. On the faculty level, they\u2019re trying to preserve this by placing emphasis on all of these. I\u2019ll list a few examples, to show how it is day to day.
\n\u00a0<\/span>In dietetics students get to master the fundamental principles of healthy nutrition, later they will study the diet therapy of different types of illnesses. Simulation rooms allow paramedic students to experience what it\u2019s like working in an ambulance in an event of an emergency.<\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span>Simulation rooms are also useful for nurses because they get to practice and master many of their tasks. Health education and prevention are also heavily emphasized, it\u2019s a requirement for one of our optional subjects that allows us to take part in organizing sport, and health days in primary schools.<\/span>
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\nSz.: What role does the students\u2019 council, and You, its\u2019 representative have in this process?<\/b>
\nE. <\/b>V.:<\/b> H\u00d6K mainly deals with educational advocacy and helping with social problems. We\u2019ve traditionally had a great relationship with management, this allows us to help every student find a solution to their problems, it also means that management always pays attention to our pieces of advice and ideas.
\nIn social affairs we wear the fates of students on our shoulders, we hold a Forum before every social application, where students get a chance to ask and get answers to all their personal questions. We also take part in many faculty events and help the organizers run it smoothly: many of us attended Health day last Friday.<\/span>
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\nSz.: As future professionals, students must maintain their credibility. What part does regular exercise play in this?<\/b>
\nE. <\/b>V.: <\/b>I think a healthcare professional can\u2019t maintain their credibility if they themselves don\u2019t live a healthy lifestyle, and regular exercise is an integral part of this. This is exactly why we\u2019re working together with the physical education division to give students many choices when it comes to sports activities. In terms of this, aside from the regular lessons (like Zumba, aerobic, volleyball, handball amongst others), students can apply for hiking, this allows them to move outside, in the fresh air.
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\nSz.: Unfortunately, especially older doctors are under the impression, that only doctors are true healers, that nurses and representatives of health sciences only play a subservient role in the process of healing. Even though we all feel this statement is false, what stands against this sentiment?<\/b>
\nE. <\/b>V.: <\/b>Sadly, this attitude still occurs in some cases, however, nowadays it seems like there are fewer and fewer doctors like this. On one of our recent practical courses we talked about this with many workers, they feel that there are much fewer people who think like this, especially amongst recently graduated doctors. Today doctors think of health science professionals as teammates, they also admit that they wouldn\u2019t be able to do everything that a patient requires on their own. For healthcare professionals to stick around they need to be paid properly, and they need to be appreciated as well. \t \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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