Foundation of the Society of the Slovak Medical Doctors (SSMD) in Bratislava in June 13, 1920 (till 1938 Society Czechoslovak Medical Doctors) belongs to the most important milestones in the modern history of the Slovak medicine and it can be directly related to the foundation of Comenius University and its first faculty – Faculty of Medicine. SSMD started in October 1921 publishing the Bratislava Medical Journal, which represented the first scientific medical journal in Slovakia after the foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic. Eighty years of existence of SSMD, which belongs with its almost 2500 members to the largest professional society within the Slovak Medical Society, testifies its contribution to the development and growth of the Slovak medicine. The Society had been for many years the only professional forum where the Slovak medical doctors could meet and where the scientists of the Medical Faculty in Bratislava professionally matured. It represents also an important evidence of the material and spiritual assistance and collaboration of the Czech and Slovak medical doctors during the First Czechoslovak Republic.

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