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Dominating the new classrooms at the Faculty of Health Care Studies, University of West Bohemia (FZS UWB), opened this winter semester, is a nearly 100 m² mirror hall designed for group lessons in movement activities, physiotherapy techniques, and occupational therapy approaches. From their very first year, students will thus train in the professional environment of the FZS Health Centre.

The facilities will also include modern rehabilitation equipment. By mid-November, the Health Centre will be equipped with the Rehawalk system, which combines a treadmill with video projection and uses virtual reality to analyse and train walking with immediate feedback. In mid-December, a robotic system for intensive rehabilitation and restoration of upper limb function after a stroke or central nervous system injury will follow.

“The aim of the new Health Centre is not only to provide high-quality teaching and practical training for our students, but also to create a space for educational and research projects and, last but not least, to offer professional programmes for the public in the field of healthy lifestyle,” said Tomáš Přibáň, head of the FZS Health Centre.

A major benefit for students will be the chance to work with real patients. “The faculty is preparing accreditation of the facilities as a non-state healthcare provider, which will allow students to work with real patients directly at the university, without sole dependence on external healthcare institutions as before,” explained FZS Dean Jiří Frei. Teaching will thus become more accessible and more closely linked to scientific research and modern approaches in rehabilitation care. In the future, the centre also plans to include other study programmes, such as midwifery and general nursing.

The newly developed premises at Kollárova 19 build on the faculty’s existing teaching capacities, which already include, for example, an ambulance simulator and an X-ray device, primarily used by students of the paramedic and radiology assistance programmes. The reconstruction and equipment cost 22 million CZK, funded by the European Union and the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports through the Jan Amos Komenský Operational Programme.

Call 02_23_023 ERDF – Výzva pro vysoké školy: kvalita, název projektu: ERDF KVALITA ZČU