MANAGEMENT OF IMTFL
Head of the Institute of Medical Terminology and Foreign Languages:
PhDr. Tomáš Hamar, PhD.
tel. +421 2 90119 320
e-mail: tomas.hamarfmed.uniba.sk
- Elected member of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Medicine, Charles University 2017-present
- Member of the Dean's Advisory Board of the Faculty of Medicine, CU 2017-present
- Chairman of the UNIcert®LUCE (Language Accreditation Unit for Universities in Central Europe) committee, Institute for accreditation of language teaching at universities in Central Europe
WORK EXPERIENCES
2019- present
Head of Institute of Medical Terminology and Foreign Languages at Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University Bratislava
2015 – 2019
Head of Department of Languages at Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava
EDUCATION
2023 – ongoing : rigorosum studies for obtaining an academic degree PaedDr. in English for Specific Purposes didactics, English Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, University in Trnava
2023 – extending study - English Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, University in Trnava
2014 – PhD. in Classical languages, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava
2012 – extending study - Slovak Language and Literature, Department of Slovak Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava
2009 – PhDr. in Classical Languages, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava
2006 – MA in Latin Language and Literature, German Language and Literature
INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL IMPACT
september 2022- present
- Chair of UNIcert®LUCE Language Accreditation Unit for Universities in Central Europe - Institutional member of CercleS Confédération européenne des centres de langues de l'enseignement supérieur / European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education and Institutional member of NULTE - Network of University Language Testers in Europe
september 2022- present
- Member of scientific committee UNIcert®, Germany
august 2020 – 2023
- Coordinator of the translation of ICD-11 International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision into Slovak language (release date 2023), with cooperation with National Health Information Centre (NCZI), a state-funded organization founded by the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic
- Initiator and coordinator and cocreator of worldwide Latin version of ICD-11 International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (release date 2023), in cooperation with the Team for Classifications, Terminologies, and Standards in World Health Organisation
october 2017- present
- Elected member of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Medicine, CU, Member of the Pedagogical Comitee of the Academic Senate.
2022 - present
- Organizer and Manager of Slovak Language Courses for Medical Professionals from Ukraine. Approximately 500 Ukrainian healthcare workers completed Slovak language courses aimed at doctors and medical staff. These courses were subsidized by the Slovak Ministry of Health, WHO, and UNICEF (for pediatricians).
sepbember 2017-present
- Board member of Dean’s Collegium (Advisory body of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine CU)
CONDUCTING LECTURES AND DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
- Invited Lecture Healthcare in the 18th Century: The Legacy of Justus Johannes Torkos. November 14th, 2024 at the Austrian Society for the History of Science.The invitation was extended by: Univ. Doz. Mag. Dr. Johannes Seidl MAS, Vice President of the Austrian Society for the History of Science and Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Klecker, Institute for Classical Philology, Medieval and Neo-Latin, University of Vienna and member of the Austrian Society for the History of Science.
- participation in the international workshop 25. UNIcert®-Workshop 2024: 21st Century Skills with UNIcert® organized by Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften München) - Fakultät für Studium Generale und Interdisziplinäre Studien (Department of General and Interdisciplinary Studies) on 8 – 9 November 2024
- participation in the 97th meeting of the scientific committee of UNIcert® (Wissenschaftliche Kommissionssitzung) organized by Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences on 8 November 2024
- active participation in the 3rd International Conference on Language Teaching at Medical Faculties III organized by the Department of Languages of the 2nd Faculty of Medicine of Charles University on 11-12 September 2024
Paper presented: Sustaining Graeco-Latin linguistic heritage in medicine: The ICD-11 translation
- active participation in the conference AELFE 2024 Challenges of LSP teaching and research in the era of language technological revolution organized by the Institute of Languages for Specific Purposes of Semmelweis University in Budapest on 6-7 September 2024
Poster presented: Enhancing Motivation and Soft Skills through Gamification and Collaborative Learning in Tertiary LSP Education
- active participation in the conference SIMEDICA (The Slovak Conference on Medical Education and Simulation) organized by the Faculty of Medicine CU in Bratislava on 5 September 2024
Paper presented: Innovative Educational Methods at the Institute of Medical Terminology and Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Medicine, CU
- active participation in the conference Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference 2024 organized by the Institute of Languages for Specific Purposes of Semmelweis University in Budapest on 31 May – 1 June 2024
Paper presented: Creating a Latin Version of ICD-11 and Its Impact on Medical Terminology Education in Central Europe
- organization and participation in the international workshop Synthesizing Language Assessment: From Theory to Practice organized by AKS, UNIcert® a UNIcert® LUCE on 23 March 2024
- organization and participation in the international workshop Test Result Analysis organized by AKS, UNIcert® a UNIcert® LUCE on 8 March 2024
- organization and participation in the international workshop Test Specifications organized by AKS, UNIcert® a UNIcert® LUCE on 1March 2024
- participation in the board meeting of NULTE - Network of University Language Testers in Europe organized by NULTE on 19 February 2024
- organization and participation in the international workshop Development of Assessment Grids organized by AKS, UNIcert® a UNIcert® LUCE on 16 February 2024
- organization and participation in the international workshop Test Development II organized by AKS, UNIcert® a UNIcert® LUCE on 26 January 2024
- organization and participation in the international workshop Test Development I organized by AKS, UNIcert® a UNIcert® LUCE on 19 January 2024
- participation in the international workshop 24. UNIcert®-Workshop 2023 organized by European University Viadrina on 9 – 10 November 2023
- participation in 94th UNIcert® commission organized by European University Viadrina on 10 November 2023
- lecturer and examiner of the inter-university BIP project within the university alliance ENLIGHT (actively involved universities: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, University of Bordeaux, Comenius University Bratislava) Fostering Effective Online Oral Communication and Critical Thinking Skills, October 2023 – December 2023
- organization and participation in the international workshop The CEFR Companion Volume and the action-oriented approach organized by AKS, UNIcert® a UNIcert® LUCE on 24 November 2023
- organization and participation in the international workshop Constructive alignment, curriculum design, washback effect organized by AKS, UNIcert® a UNIcert® LUCE on 8 December 2023
- active participation and organization of the conference Quality Assurance of Language Programmes at European Higher Education Institutions VIII organized by the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University Bratislava and NULTE on 5 - 6 October 2023
Paper presented: 70th Anniversary of Professional Language Training at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava
- active participation in The Conference of Institutes of FMED CU organized by the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University Bratislava on 29 - 30 May 2023
Paper presented: Institute of Medical Terminology and Foreign Languages - Presentation of the Scientific and Pedagogical Profile of the Workplace
- active participation in the international workshop 23. UNIcert®-Workshop 2022 organized by Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and ZESS (Zentrale Einrichtung für Sprachen und Schlüsselqualifikationen) on 11. – 12. November 2022
Paper presented: UNIcert®LUCE – current state and future challenges
- participation in 91st UNIcert® commission organized by University of Göttingen and ZESS (Zentrale Einrichtung für Sprachen und Schlüsselqualifikationen) on 4 November 2022
- active participation in the Symposium on history of pharmacy and health care on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Masaryk University, organized by the Faculty of Pharmacy MUNI in Brno on 14 October 2022
Paper presented: Justus Ján Torkoš: Description of the 18th-century Pressburg from a hygienic vantage point
- active participation in a conference with international participation Non scholae, sed vitae discimus... (book culture - personalities - school life) organized by the State Scientific Library in Prešov from 7 - 8 June 2021
Paper presented: Educational component in Latin textbooks in the second half of the 20th century
- participation in the online workshop 7. Göttinger Workshop zum Sprachenlehren, -lernen und -testen an Hochschulen „Sprachtesten in Zeiten von Online-Lehre“ organised by ZESS (Zentrale Einrichtung für Sprachen und Schlüsselqualifikation) and University of Göttingen from 1 – 2 October 2021
- active participation in the conference Teaching the first (L2) and second (L3) foreign language from the point of view of applied linguistics. Cooperation - contrasts - analogies – interdisciplinarity organised by the Institute of Foreign Languages, TU in Zvolen on 15 Oct 2020
Paper presented: Specifics of teaching Latin medical terminology in English as a second language
- active participation in the conference Morality in the Context of Centuries organised by the Institute of Romance Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Presov from 27 - 29 March 2019
Presented paper: Moral and Ethical Regulations of Executors of Medical Occupations in the Works of Ján Justus Torkoš
- active participation in the Conference on the History of Pharmacy during 10th meeting of the Slovak Pharmaceutical Society dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of Comenius University in Bratislava on 5 Sept 2019
Presented paper: Botanic Nomenclature in the Work Taxa Pharmaceutica Posoniensis by Ján Justus Torkoš
- active participation in the conference LXVII Symposium on the History of Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine organised by the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno on 6 Nov 2019
Presented paper: Liquor polychrestus in the Works of Ján Justus Torkoš
- Invited lecture on Justus Johannes Torkos and His Contribution to the Development of Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences. April 10th, 2018, at the University of Pécs. The invitation was extended by Dr. Gabor Rebek-Nagy, PhD, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Languages for Medical Purposes at the Faculty of General Medicine, University of Pécs.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
2024
Research team member for Comenius University in Bratislava within the framework of the national project Digital Transformation of Education and Schools (DiTEdu, code ITMS2014+: 401402DVR6).
2024–2025
Member of the research team of the VEGA project 1/0625/23: Immunologically Active Endometrial Cells in the Context of Embryo Implantation and the Possibilities of Modulating Them in Infertility Treatment (Imunologicky aktívne bunky endometria v kontexte implantácie embrya a možnosti ich ovplyvnenia pri liečbe neplodnosti)
2013–2014
Member of the research team of the APVV-SK-AT-0022-12 project: The Ancient Greek Cultural Heritage in the Central Danubian Region in the 15th and 16th Centuries (Antické grécke kultúrne dedičstvo v oblasti stredného Dunaja v 15. a 16. storočí)
ACADEMIC MOBILITIES
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ): Τμήμα Φιλοσοφίας και Παιδαγωγικής, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή Greece, Thessaloniki, 13 – 19 January 2025, Department of Pedagogy (School of Philosophy and Education, Faculty of Philosophy), Erasmus+ STT - Staff Mobility for Training
- Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften München), Germany, Munich, 4 – 10 November 2024, Fakultät für Studium Generale und Interdisziplinäre Studien (Department of General and Interdisciplinary Studies), Erasmus+ STT – Staff Mobility for Training
- University of Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies (Institute for Classical Philology, Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies) Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein) 2024–2025 National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic – Postdoctoral Researchers: 6-month Research Fellowship (funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic)
- Semmelweis University, Hungary, Budapest, 2 – 6 September 2024, CEEPUS - (Central European Exchange Program for University Studies) Freemover academic mobility. Institute of Languages for Specific Purposes: Medicine and Health Sciences.
- University of Pécs (Pécsi Tudományegyetem), Hungary, Pécs, Hungarian Language and Culture Summer University 2024 (Magyar Nyelv és Kultúra Nyári Egyetem), SAIA – scholarship based on an intergovernmental bilateral agreement
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών), Greece, Atnens, Summer Course in Modern Greek Studies Θ.Υ.Ε.Σ.Π.Α. 2024 (Θερινές Υποτροφίες Ελληνικών Σπουδών Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών)
- Medical University of Łódź, Foreign Language Centre, Poland, Łódź, 15 – 19 April 2024, English for specific purposes. General medicine, Exams in the programme ACERT, Erasmus+ STA – Teaching Staff Mobility
- Winter School of Latin by Polish Philological Association, Poland, Wrocław, 7 – 11 February 2024, course aimed at developing speaking in Latin language, Erasmus+ STT – Staff Mobility for Training
- University of Göttingen, Germany, Göttingen, 4 – 9 December 2023, project: Fostering Effective Online Oral Communication and Critical Thinking Skills, Erasmus+ STT – Staff Mobility for Training
- European University Viadrina, Germany, Frankfurt (Oder), 6 – 11 November 2023, Erasmus+ STT – Staff Mobility for Training
- University of Wrocław, Poland, Wrocław, 9.-29. July, NAWA Summer Course organized by the School of Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners of the University of Wrocław, CEFR level achieved: A2, SAIA – scholarship based on an intergovernmental bilateral agreement
- University of Göttingen, Germany, Göttingen, 9 – 15 November 2022, Language education in the context of higher education, UNIcert® and language education in the context of higher education - Erasmus+ STT – Staff Mobility for Training
- Galway Cultural Institute, Ireland, Galway, from 5 – 16 September 2022, Development of Academic Writing Skills and Use of Corpus-based Teaching and Writing Tools – Teacher Training Programme – Erasmus+ STT – Staff Mobility for Training
- Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, Czech Republic, Prague, from 16 – 20 May 2022, Latin medical terminology, English for specific purposes: General medicine, Czech for specific purposes: General medicine – Erasmus+ STT - Staff Mobility for Training
- Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, from 10 – 15 November 2019, Latin medical terminology, Czech for specific purposes: General medicine, Erasmus+ STT – Staff Mobility for Training
- St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia, Bulgaria, Sofia, from 12 – 16 November 2018, Latin medical terminology, English for specific purposes: General medicine - Erasmus+ STA – Teaching Staff Mobility
- The University of Pécs, Hungary, Pécs, 9 – 13 April 2018, Pécsi Tudományegyetem, Department of Languages for Biomedical Purposes and Communication (Egészségügyi Nyelvi és Kommunikációs Intézet), Erasmus+ STA – Teaching Staff Mobility
- University of Vienna, Austria, Vienna, 2009, 6-month research stay as a doctoral student at the Institute for Classical Philology, Medieval and Neo-Latin, funded by the OeAD - Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation.
- Scuola Primaria G. Callandrone in Savona, Italy, Savona, 2006-2007, 10-month teaching assistantship, through the Comenius Programme (part of the EU's Erasmus+ Programme).
- University of Vienna, Austria, Vienna, 2006, 6-month research stay as a master's student at the Institute for Classical Philology, Medieval and Neo-Latin
funded by the OeAD - Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation.
SUPERVISED AND OPPOSED FINAL THESES
- Professional clinical terminology: development, current status and perspectives in dentistry
Type: Diploma Thesis in the field of Dentistry
Student: Eliza Maria Przyniczyńska
Supervisor: PhDr. Tomáš Hamar, PhD.
Opponent: Mgr. Angela Škovierova, PhD.
Status: defended on 13th of November 2024
- Topographic anatomy (head and neck). Terminology and its use in dental disciplines
Type: Diploma Thesis in the field of Dentistry
Student: Julia Popińska
Supervisor: PhDr. Tomáš Hamar, PhD.
Opponent: Mgr. Angela Škovierova, PhD.
Status: defended on 13th of November 2024
- Perspectives of Professional Clinical Terminology in Dentistry
Type: Diploma Thesis in the field of Dentistry
Student: Lucia Banáryová
Supervisor: Mgr. Angela Škovierova, PhD.
Opponent: PhDr. Tomáš Hamar, PhD.
Status: defended on 13th of November 2024
- Analysis of Study Materials from Clinical Courses and Greek-Latin Vocabulary in Dentistry
Type: Diploma Thesis in the field of Dentistry
Student: Alia Sheihani
Supervisor: PhDr. Tomáš Hamar, PhD.
Opponent: Ing. Janka Bábelová, PhD.
Status: in progress
- The Healthy Lifestyle of the Romans During the Empire in the Context of Testimonies by Ancient Authors
Type: Bachelor thesis in the filed of Philology
Student: Mária Mitasová (FiF UK)
Supervisor: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Marcela Andoková, MA, PhD.
Opponent: PhDr. Tomaš Hamar, PhD.
Status: defended in 2022