CURRICULUM OUTLINE

The Medical University programme consists of six successive academic years of medical, preclinical and clinical studies and is adapted to the common European programme, in keeping with the European admission standards for medical education. Applicants are expected to have excelled in basic science courses in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and English. The academic year formally starts on the 1st of October and is divided into two five-month terms (semesters), including examination sessions. The student must successfully complete all of the course work of one academic year, before being approved for promotion to the next year. Part I of the study, the preclinical (or theoretical) two years at the Medical School, is devoted to the following subjects: medical chemistry (inorganic and organic), biophysics, biology, anatomy, histology, embryology, genetics, immunology, cytophysiology, biochemistry, computing techniques, physiology, Latin, physical education, first aid and resuscitation. Foreign students must take a course in the Polish language during these two years in order to be able to communicate with the patients from the third year onwards. Part II of the study, the clinical four years, starts in the third year with pathology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, microbiology, history of medicine and introduction to medicine, paediatrics and surgery. The whole medical spectrum of clinical sciences will be covered by the end of the sixth year, which includes: internal medicine, general surgery, paediatrics, gynaecology and obstetrics, neurology, dermatology, psychiatry, ophthalmology, radiology, otorhinolaryngology, urology, pulmonology, rheumatology, forensic medicine, public health medicine, anaesthesiology, medical ethics and psychology. After successfully completing all work required during these six years, and after having passed all the prescribed examinations, the student will receive M.D. (the Medical Doctor) Diploma.