Medical Academy of Lublin

About The University
The teaching of medicine and pharmacy in Lublin can be connected with the opening of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in 1944. Both faculties were educating young people at UMCS for over 5 years until they were separated to form Medical University in 1950. Today our University is proud to bear the name of its first Rector, a surgeon, professor Feliks Skubiszewski and is run by a nephrologist, professor Andrzej Książek, the eleventh Rector of the University.

In 1972 a Faculty of Nursing was created to be followed by Division of Dentistry at the Medical Faculty in 1973. Medical Analytics Division of Faculty of Phramacy was formed in 1995, English Language Division of Medical Faculty in 2001.

The Medical University of Lublin educated 14 thousand physicians (including over 100 graduates of the Englisha Language Division), 2.5 thousand dentists, 6.5 thousand pharmacists and 5 thousand nurses.

The University employs about one thousand people, including almost 100 professors, almost 90 habilitated doctors, and almost 700 Ph.Ds. There are 125 sites within the University chairs, departments and clinics.

Gym of The Medical University of Lublin is located at the back of the University dorms, 5 minutes walking distance from Collegium Universum and Hospital PSK 4. The adress is ul. Chodźki 15.

It is open Mon-Fri 8am-5pm.

In the building you can find:
1. a big hall on the ground floor
2. a small hall on the first floor
3. a gym

Detailed schedule of your obligatory classes at the gym can be revieved in the Dean's Office at the beginning of each semester.

Additionally, you can take part in such vocational activities, like:
Areobic classes Mon and Wed 5pm-6pm
Calanetics classes Tue and Thur 6:30pm 7:30pm
Gym

If you and your friends want to play basketball or soccer in the big hall you have to write and official request to mr. Radosław Sadło who is the manager of the gym (in Polish: Kierownik Studium WFiS). You can do it with help of the Dean's Office staff Izabela or Bartek.

A short history
The Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, forming part of the Warsaw University, resumed undergraduate education programmes in 1945. The Academy of Dentistry, founded in that year, was incorporated into the Faculty of Medicine, Warsaw University as the Division of Dentistry in 1949. In January 1950, faculties of medicine and pharmacy at all Polish universities were transformed into independent tertiary schools, Academies of Medicine.

The newly established Warsaw Medical Academy had two Faculties, of Medicine (with the Sub-faculty of Dentistry) and of Pharmacy. Professor Franciszek Czubalski (Rector of the Warsaw University in the years 1945-1949) was appointed its first Rector. Warsaw Medical Academy took over some buildings formerly belonging to the Warsaw University and the Infant Jesus Hospital with a complex of teaching hospitals situated in Lindleya St. The building in Filtrowa St. housed the Rector's Office, the Deans' Offices and Administration.

Development
Physicians, who were academic teachers, worked at most of Warsaw hospitals. After the World War II, the Karol and Maria Children's Hospital founded by Zofia Szlenkierowna, which had been destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, was rebuilt as a new paedriatric hospital in Działdowska St. with Professor Władysław Szenajch as its Managing Director. In 1950 the Chair of Paediatrics 2 was transferred from there to the hospital in Litewska St. In 1975 a new Central Teaching Hospital was opened in Banacha St. In those days it offerred the most specialized level of health care and the most sophisticated technology in Poland. In that same year, 25 years after the foundation of the Medical Academy, the 2nd Faculty of Medicine was established with the city hospital in Kondratowicza St in the Brodno district of Warsaw at its main clinical teaching centre.

Also in 1975 the Transplantation Institute was founded, the brainchild of Professor Tadeusz Orłowski. Among other projects, the Institute was the first to introduce the programme renal transplantation coordinated and supervised by Professor Tadeusz Orłowski and Professor Jan Nielubowicz (Rector of the Medical Academy in the years 1981-1986).

In 1993, the English Division with English as the language of instruction was created for international students at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine and in 2001 - the Physiotherapy Division

In 2000, the Medical Academy of Warsaw - now known in English as the Medical University of Warsaw - celebrated the 50th anniversary of its foundation. The other important events of that year included the ceremony of the 50th anniversary of graduation of the 1950 class and the inauguration of a building at 61 Żwirki and Wigury St., which now is the seat of the Senate, the authorities and the administration of the Medical University of Warsaw.
Location

Warsaw is the biggest town with its over 2.000.000 inhabitants. This region of Poland is called Mazovia. In Warsaw you can find 15 higher education state institutions and over 30 non-state ones enrolling altogether over 150,000 students. The city and region are very rich in culture and arts that have many well-known theaters and museums. Here is also biggest in Poland Opera house established at the end of 18th century. From Warsaw you may reach other towns in Poland by rail, by bus or by plane. It has also good air connections with almost all countries in Europe, many direct flights to the USA and Asia. The city offers a big variety of restaurants, pubs, Italian and Greek restaurants as well as small restaurants with Chinese or Thai food. Warsaw is very green town with its over 53.000 ha covering 9 parks, 15 woods and other greens. In Warsaw are also available recreation parks where in winter time you may even ski.

Teaching Hospitals
The teaching hospitals with their teams of dedicated specialists and subspecialists provide the most specialized level of health care, carry out research and offer undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education programmes. As specialist tertiary referral centres, these hospitals administer health care in their numerous inpatient and outpatient departments.

The services provided are funded by contracts with the National Health Fund.

The teaching hospitals are now undergoing extensive restructuring to further improve the quality of health care and maintain the highest standards of their service to the public. They offer complex treatment and diagnostic modalities in their specialities, including the use of sophisticated imaging techniques and clinical laboratory tests while the expertise provided by the staff guarantees the highest level of care and safety of treatment in hospital departments and outpatient clinics.