At its regular meeting on 5 October 2022, the Academic Senate of the Second Faculty of Medicine, in accordance with its Code of Electoral Procedure, Article 1, paragraphs 1 and 2, announces elections to the Academic Senate of the Second Faculty of Medicine of Charles University for the term of office from 1 February 2023 to 31 January 2025.
The Academic Senate set the following election dates:
- The first round will take place for both chambers (pedagogical and student) electronically from 7 to 9 November 2022. The electoral system will be launched on 7 November 2022 at 8.00 a.m. and closed on 9 November 2022 at 6.00 p.m.
- The second round will take place for both chambers electronically from 28 to 30 November 2022. The electoral system will be launched on 28 November 2022 at 8.00 a.m. and closed on 30 November 2022 at 6.00 p.m.
The main conditions that the electoral system meets (which will be used in a similar configuration for elections to the AS of the Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University):
- only a designated person from the IT department of the faculty has access to the electoral system, this person may not interfere with the election process,
- the electoral system must be accessible at the time specified when the elections are announced,
- the system must not allow the display of interim election results,
- the system must check that the conditions for voting are met (in particular the election of a maximum of two candidates)
- only a person who is a member of the academic community of the Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, can vote in the system and only after logging in via CAS,
- each person entitled to vote can vote only once and cannot change it after sending the ballot,
- the system will not allow to trace how a particular voter voted,
- after the end of the round, the system will allow export with the overall results of voting and the number of voters in each chamber.
The Academic Senate determined the electoral communities in the student chamber as follows:
- 1st community – 1st and 2nd year class of General Medicine (Czech)
- 2nd community – 3rd year class General Medicine (Czech)
- 3rd community – 4th year class of General Medicine (Czech)
- 4th community – 5th and 6th year class of General Medicine (Czech)
- 5th community – 1st to 6th year class of General Medicine (“foreign students”)
- 6th community – non-medical fields of study
- 7th community – 1st and 2nd year class of doctoral studies
- 8th community – 3rd and higher year class of doctoral studies
The Academic Senate approved the following composition of the Election Commission:
Teachers: MUDr. Dagmar Holá, Mgr. Šárka Salavová, RNDr. Karolina Škvárová Kramarzová, Ph.D.
Students: RNDr. Aneta Skotnicová, Anna Garnolová, MUDr. Adam Láznička (chairman)
The Academic Senate further determined that the Election Commission shall follow the amended Manual of Elections to the AS of the Second Faculty of Medicine of Charles University (approved at the meeting of the AS on 5 October 2022).
The person responsible for the administrative course of the elections is the secretary of the faculty, Mgr. J. Šmejcká. The academic community will be informed about the course of the elections on the faculty website.
Schedule of elections to the AS of the Second Faculty of Medicine of Charles University
- 5 October 2022 – announcement of elections at the regular meeting of the AS, including determination of the date, time and place of elections, approval of the composition of the election commission and division of the student chamber of the AS
- 7–9 November 2022 – the first round of elections to the AS
- 28–30 November 2022 – the second round of elections to the AS
