NLZP

Postgraduate Education for Other Healthcare Professionals (NLZP) – Medical Laboratory Technician, General Nurse, Specialized Laboratory Method Worker

UHKT, as an accredited higher-level workplace for the field of Clinical Hematology and Transfusion Service, allows NLZP to undergo internships in specialized departments and laboratories (cytogenetics, flow cytometry, molecular genetics, morphology and cytochemistry, coagulation, immunohematology) as part of specialized postgraduate education. Additionally, ÚHKT has accredited practical parts of specialized module 5 and specialized module 9 of the postgraduate education program for general nurses – Nursing Care in Oncology and Hemato-oncology.

Internships are carried out based on tripartite agreements between ÚHKT, the sending organization, and the trainee, or bilateral agreements if the trainee is not sent by any organization that covers the internship. Detailed information about the agreements can be found here. 

In postgraduate education in other fields (virology, molecular genetics, clinical biochemistry), trainers include secondary school or university graduates who have the required qualifications in the respective fields.

The function of trainers for postgraduate education of doctors is governed by the requirements in Decree 95/2004 § 20. For NLZP, they are defined in Decree 96/2004 § 59 (the trainer can only be a healthcare worker with specialized competence in the relevant field).