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Prevention and education

Education is fundamentally important to improving the quality of care and access to care.

Medicover’s staff and partners should learn, gain experience, and develop their skills so we continually improve our services. SDG #4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all – is one SDG Medicover focus on, and particularly health education, both for medical professionals and the population.

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Staff training

All medical staff are encouraged to continue their medical education whilst working with Medicover. Medicover sponsors programmes with nurse training schools in several countries. Medicover also runs the Queen Silvia Nursing Award programme in Poland, through which trainee nurses can submit their ideas to improve care for the sick and elderly.

Diagnostic Services is largely centred around prevention, early detection, and the monitoring of health status, since most medical decisions are based on some type of testing. The Diagnostic Services division also runs an extensive training programme for doctors in the countries where it operates. 

The opportunities for staff training and further education are not limited to our medical staff. During 2023 Medicover invested 483,895 hours in training.

Preventative care and training

Preventative care and medical education are integrated in the Integrated Healthcare model and provided to the members. Medicover provided more than 26,000 health screenings and 455,000 occupational health examinations during 2023. 

Medicover provide specific advice for people with chronic conditions to help them manage those conditions and which also increases life expectancy.

A healthy lifestyle among young people significantly reduce the risk of developing many diseases in later life. The Medicover Foundation has developed and offered the PoZdro and InCerc programmes in Poland and Romania through which more than 56,000 school children have had their health status screened. Those with obesity problems or poor physical fitness have been offered the opportunity together with their families to take part in health coaching to address these risks. 

Progress is measured by tracking:

  • The number of diagnostic tests provided: >119 million (>119 million)
  • The number of hours of training provided to staff: 483,895 (340,370)
  • The cumulative number of school children who have participated in Medicover sponsored health education or screening: 317,470 (222,800)

Exampel of educational activities:

AWF-Medicover Nursing Studies in Poland

Medicover was the first private medical company in Poland to establish a partnership with a public university in order to organise full-time studies in professional healthcare. In 2011, the first edition of AWF*-Medicover Nursing Studies was launched. (*AWF - Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw).

The studies meet the highest European standards for nursing education. Classes take place at AWF, in the Medicover Wilanów Hospital and Medicover clinics. The Medicover partnership with AWF is the response to the crucial social problem, which is a shortage of nursing staff on the labour market and insufficient practical preparation of graduates.

 

AWF-Medicover nursing education

Medicover Romania partnership with Carol Davila

Medicover Romanian teamMedicover Romania is the only private healthcare company having a partnership with Carol Davila - the biggest nursing vocational school in Romania (2014).

Thanks to the partnership, Medicover has students for internships in clinics and the hospital. Medicover and Carol Davila have attended CSR initiatives together; Medicover receives foreign experience exchange students (from Spain, Norway, and Denmark) and a workshop for future nurses is to be organised. None of Medicover’s competitors have done this.

Synevo Ukraine Nursing School

In order to assure the highest quality of services, Synevo Ukraine has launched an internal Nursing School.
The program covers:

  • Customer Service
  • Practical Nursing
  • Sanitary Regime
  • Lab systems and cash management
  • Bio-Material Storage and Transportation
  • Emergency Care

Annually, 420 nurses graduate from the school.

Partnership with the Queen Silvia Nursing Award

Medicover Queen Silvia Nursing Award teamMedicover is a strategic partner of Queen Silvia Nursing Award - the prize granted by Swedish Queen Silvia to those dealing with the elderly care.


In the framework of the partnership, the first scholarship nursing student from Sweden – Hanna Davidsson, had a placement in Medicover’s Wilanów Hospital.

Study nurses clinical research training

The five-day training is designed for nurses with general or laboratory medicine background, who work, or are willing to work, as study nurses in clinical trials. The integral part of the course is a one-day practical training held at the Synevo Central Lab in Bucharest and a Phase I Unit located in ‘Matei Bals’ National Institute of Infectious Diseases.

The ’Study nurses clinical research training’ is organized by Synevo Central Lab Romania, ‘Matei Bals’ National Institute of Infectious Diseases (the first ISO 9001/2000 certified medical unit in Bucharest for the quality of specialized medical services) and Romanian Nurses College (a national professional association of more than 21,000 medical nurses in Romania.)

‘The training offers the opportunity for nurses to obtain valuable information about their role within clinical research teams which develop clinical trials in Romania. It happens that, due to lack of adequate information, even when a nurse is part of investigators team, she does not fully understand or acknowledge her responsibilities in the study team. The aim of our training is to make the nurses better understand their role, engage them even more in the CT practice, providing adequate care to the CT patients who have a totally different regime than regular patients.’
Cristina Florescu-Moraid, MD, MSc, EUSpLM, Synevo Central Lab Country Director Romania, Republic of Moldova, Bulgaria & Serbia, and an initiator of the project.

«The training offers the opportunity for nurses to obtain valuable information about their role within clinical research teams which develop clinical trials in Romania. It happens that, due to lack of adequate information, even when a nurse is part of investigators team, she does not fully understand or acknowledge her responsibilities in the study team. The aim of our training is to make the nurses better understand their role, engage them even more in the CT practice, providing adequate care to the CT patients who have a totally different regime than regular patients.»

Cristina Florescu-Moraid, MD, MSc, EUSpLM, Synevo Central Lab Country Director Romania, Republic of Moldova, Bulgaria & Serbia.