Poznan University of Medical Sciences

Poznan University of Medical Sciences (Polish: Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu) is a prominent Polish medical university.

History
The history of Poznan University of Medical Sciences starts in 1919 when a pharmaceutical department was created at the University of Poznań. A year later (in 1920) the Faculty of Medicine was founded within it (in fact this faculty existed since 1919 as a part of Poznań Society of Friends of Arts and Sciences). The Chair of Dentistry was created in 1929. The first rector of Poznan University was Heliodor Święcicki and first Dean of the Faculty of Medicine was Professor Adam Wrzosek.

In 1939, the University of Poznań was closed by occupation authorities but many of its professors did not cease teaching. In 1940 an underground University of Western Poland was formed in Warsaw which comprised the Faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry and in 1941, the Polish School of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh was founded, of which the first Dean was surgeon Antoni Jurasz from the University of Poznań. In last months of the war, during battle for Poznań, preparations for the opening of the University were begun, which started in April 1945.

According to reform in 1950, the Medical Faculty with the section of Dentistry and the Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Poznań were detached to form an independent school - University of Medical Sciences. In 1975 was found a new Faculty of Nursing and in 1979 was open Section of Medical Analytics. In 1984 Sejm named school after Karol Marcinkowski, a distinguished Polish physician and patriot of the first half of the 19th century that lived in Poznań, who became a symbol of the highest professional and moral values in medicine. In 1992 the Faculty of Medicine was divided into Faculty of Medicine I responsible for the six-year Polish M.D. Program and Faculty of Medicine II comprising the Divisions of Dentistry, Post Graduate Medical Education and Medicine and Dentistry with English as the teaching language.

On 27 February 2007 the Polish name of school was changed from ''Akademia Medyczna im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu to Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu''.

School Authorities

 * President: Prof. Grzegorz H. Bręborowicz
 * Vice-President for Science and International Relations: Prof. Wojciech Dyszkiewicz
 * Vice-President for Student Affairs: Prof. Zenon Kokot
 * Vice-President for Clinical Affairs and Postgraduate Studies: Prof. Andrzej Obrębowski
 * Vice-President for Integration and Promotion: Prof. Jacek Wysocki

Faculties

 * Faculty of Medicine I
 * Faculty of Medicine II
 * Faculty of Pharmacy
 * Faculty of Health Sciences

Clinical Hospitals
University teaching and research mainly based on co-operation with five Clinical Hospitals and also on the other city and voivodship hospitals
 * Official site of Clinical Hospital No. 1
 * Official site of Clinical Hospital No. 2
 * Official site of Clinical Hospital No. 3
 * Official site of Clinical Hospital No. 4
 * Official site of Clinical Hospital No. 5

Medizinische Universität Posen Medicina Universitato en Poznań Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu