Poznan University of Medical Sciences (pol. Akademia Medyczna im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu) is in last few years the best Polish Medical University.

History

History of Poznan University of Medical Sciences strats in 1919 when, in University of Poznan was created Pharmaceutical Department and a year later (1920) the Faculty of Medicine was founded within it (in fact this faculty egsisted since 1919 as a part of Poznan Society of Friends of Arts and Sciences). The Chair of Dentistry was created in 1929. First rector of Poznan University was Heliodor Święcicki and first Dean of the Faculty of Medicine was Prof. Adam Wrzosek.

In 1939 University of Poznan was closed by occupation authorietes 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 which first Dean was surgeon Prof. Antoni Jurasz from University of Poznan. In last months of the war, during battle for Poznan, were begin preparations for the opening of the University, 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 Poznan 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 Poznan, 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 6-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.

School Authorities

• President: Prof. Grzegorz H. Bręborowicz
• Vice-President for Science and International Relations: Prof. Wojciech Dyszkiewicz
• Vice-President for Student Affairs: Prof. Wojciech Golusiński
• Vice-President for Clinical Affairs and Postgraduate Studies: Prof. Andrzej Obrębowski

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