Diploma of Slavko Mašek Bosnodolski, MD,  University in Prague, 16 June 1921, inv. no. HMMF-5953

Slavko Mašek

Slavko Mašek Bosnodolski, Croatian physician, pediatrician (Zagreb, 30 May 1893 – Zagreb, 10 November 1969), son of physician Dragutin Mašek, one of the founders of the School of Medicine in Zagreb. He attended elementary school and high school in Zagreb. He graduated from the Upper Town High School on 27 June 1911. He began his medical studies in Vienna in 1912, then served in the military from 1914 to 1918, and after the fifth semester transferred to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Prague, where he graduated on 16 June 1921. During his studies, he spent two semesters in Zurich (seventh and eighth, 1919/20), where he did his internship in a pediatric and gynecological clinic. Upon his return to Zagreb, he worked at the Department of Pediatrics of the Hospital of the Sisters of Charity from 1921 to 1924, initially as a trainee, and from 1 July 1922 as a secondary physician. He earned the title of specialist in pediatrics in 1924, as well as the right to practice private medicine. He completed his training at the Clinic for Pediatrics of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, where he attended a course on diphtheria in 1924. He served as the city health inspector and specialist in pediatrics at the City Children’s Outpatient Clinic in Zagreb, and from 1925 to 1931 he served as the head of the outpatient clinic for one month each year. He published his works in the Liječnički vjesnik (medical journal of the Croatian Medical Association). He was declared an honorary member of the Pneumophthisiology Section of the Croatian Medical Association on 4 March 1969.
The Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy houses a memorial collection of materials from the legacy of Slavko Mašek.