Overview of Department Activities

The activities of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, and the Faculty Hospital Královské Vinohrady in Prague are focused on providing therapeutic and preventive care to patients of the Faculty Hospital Královské Vinohrady, undergraduate and postgraduate education of students of the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, training of junior physicians and nurses within specialist training programs, and scientific and research activities.

Therapeutic and preventive care is provided to patients with orthopaedic diseases and to patients after injuries of the musculoskeletal system. In the care of patients with orthopaedic conditions, we focus on osteotomies, joint arthroplasty, decompressive, corrective and stabilisation procedures of the spine, arthroscopic surgery of major joints, reconstruction of post‑traumatic deformities of the hand, and correction of static deformities of the foot. Care for patients after musculoskeletal injuries is aimed at comprehensive orthopaedic and traumatological conservative and surgical treatment, including osteosynthesis of all types of fractures of the limb skeleton, pelvis and acetabulum, as well as spinal stabilisation procedures performed via posterior, anterior and combined approaches. Our department is part of the Trauma Centre of the Faculty Hospital Královské Vinohrady, which is among the largest in the Czech Republic (the catchment area includes approximately 1.3 million inhabitants).

The second major pillar of the department’s activities is education. The Faculty Hospital Královské Vinohrady serves as a clinical, teaching and research base of the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University. The main focus of the department’s teaching activities is undergraduate education of students of the Master’s programme in General Medicine (in both Czech and English) and Intensive Care (in Czech), as well as teaching in three bachelor’s degree programmes. Postgraduate education is concentrated on doctoral studies within the subject boards of Experimental Surgery, Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, and Orthopaedics. Specialist training is focused on pre‑certification training of the department’s own physicians as well as physicians from other institutions, and on specialist education of the department’s nursing staff.

The third core area of interest is scientific and research activity. Research in selected areas of orthopaedics and traumatology is carried out either within grant‑funded projects or as part of postgraduate doctoral studies of our PhD students.

Significant Positions of the Department’s Physicians and Faculty

Prof. MUDr. Jiří Skála‑Rosenbaum, Ph.D., MHA

• Head of the Educational Subcommittee, AO Trauma MID Europe

• Member of the International Faculty of AO Trauma

• Member of the Committee for the Competition of High‑Quality Monographs at Charles University

• Member of the Education Committee of the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University

• Member of the Subject Board for Orthopaedics (Doctoral Studies), Charles University

• Supervisor of doctoral studies within the subject boards of Experimental Surgery, Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, and Orthopaedics at Charles University

• Member of the Editorial Board of Acta Chirurgiae Orthopaedicae et Traumatologiae Čechoslovaca

• Member of the MEDEVAC team, Faculty Hospital Královské Vinohrady

Prim. MUDr. Vladimír Frič, CSc.

• Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Czech Society for Orthopaedics and Traumatology

• Supervisor of doctoral studies within the subject board of Experimental Surgery at Charles University

Prof. MUDr. Valér Džupa, CSc.

• Member of the Accreditation Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic for Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the Musculoskeletal System

• Vice‑Dean of the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University

• Member of the Scientific Board of the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University

• Member of the Scientific Board of the Slovak Medical University in Bratislava

• Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava

• Scientific Secretary of Acta Chirurgiae Orthopaedicae et Traumatologiae Čechoslovaca

• Member of the Editorial Board of Bratislavské lekárske listy – Bratislava Medical Journal

• Member of the Subject Boards for Experimental Surgery and Orthopaedics (Doctoral Studies) at Charles University

• Member of the Subject Board for Biomedical and Clinical Engineering (Doctoral Studies) at the Czech Technical University in Prague

• Supervisor of doctoral studies within the subject boards of Experimental Surgery, Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, and Orthopaedics at Charles University

Prof. MUDr. Martin Krbec, CSc.

• Member of the Scientific Board of the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University

• Member of the Scientific Board of Lázně Poděbrady

• Member of the Executive Committee of the Czech Society for Orthopaedics and Traumatology

• Editor‑in‑Chief of Acta Chirurgiae Orthopaedicae et Traumatologiae Čechoslovaca

• Member of the Subject Board for Orthopaedics (Doctoral Studies) at Charles University

• Supervisor of doctoral studies within the subject boards of Experimental Surgery and Orthopaedics at Charles University

• Court‑appointed expert in Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the Musculoskeletal System

Asst. MUDr. Radek Bartoška, Ph.D.

• Supervisor of doctoral studies within the subject boards of Experimental Surgery and Orthopaedics at Charles University

• Member of the MEDEVAC team, Faculty Hospital Královské Vinohrady

Asst. MUDr. Libor Luňáček

• International Member of the AAOS (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)

• Court‑appointed expert in Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the Musculoskeletal System

Asst. MUDr. Jiří Marvan, Ph.D.

• Supervisor of doctoral studies within the subject boards of Experimental Surgery and Orthopaedics at Charles University