Students Organizations
- The University Student Government – USS
- The Student Scientific Society – STN
- The Academic Sport Association
- The Erasmus Student Network – ESN
- The International Federation of Medical Student Associations – IFMSA
- “Young Pharmacy”
- the MUG Tourist Club
Many student organizations that allow students to expand their interests in their free time can be found within the campus of the Medical University of Gdańsk. The students have the opportunity to develop their passions related to their studies, to do sports, or they can do voluntary work, or engage in representing the student community. These organizations offer integration trips and open days during which the current and future students can learn about their activities and become a member.
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The University Student Government (USS) speaks for the views and interests of students both inside and outside the University. It participates in making important decisions for the University. It evaluates the authorities’ provisions in all important matters for the students. It undertakes initiatives to improve the quality of teaching. The USS supports organizations within the University. It co-organizes Neptunalia, a May student festival all over Gdańsk. It facilitates the implementation of ideas beneficial both for students and the inhabitants of Pomerania. The USS has its office on Debowa 7 Street.
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The Student Scientific Society (STN) is an organization with over 50 years of history, associating students and coordinating their activities within the Students Science Groups of our University. The society organizes the annual International Scientific Student Conference www.issc.amg.gda.pl and the Student Teaching Presentation Competition “eSKaPaDa” series. STN MUG is also involved in spreading information about scientific events around the country and abroad and about possibilities of financing student scientific research.
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The Academic Sport Association coordinates and organizes sports activities in the form of sports sections and extracurricular sport groups. These sections are professional in character, with training taking place a few times a week under a coach’s supervision. The members of the section take active part in competitions both locally and on a national scale. The extracurricular activities are purely recreational. The Academic Sport Association also organizes intercollegiate competitions. For a few years it has been responsible for the sports part of “Medykalia” – the Student Culture Days.
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The Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is a European student organization, made of 130 local sections operating at universities. It aims at supporting and developing student exchanges under the Lifelong Learning Programme. Its goal is to integrate students from abroad by creating the opportunity to meet and spend time together. Providing help and care to students during their first days in Gdańsk is one of its most important tasks. Due to the fact that ESN and USS share their headquarters, you can obtain ESN contact information in the USS office.
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The International Federation of Medical Student Associations (IFMSA) is the world’s largest and oldest organization associating students of medicine and young doctors. The department in Gdańsk has been operating within the Medical University of Gdańsk since the founding of IFMSA Poland (1956). In the year 1964, the General Assembly, the annual meeting of all IFMSA members from around the world, took place in Gdańsk. The First Fixed Programme of IFMSA created in the department in Gdańsk was the holiday practice for medical students programme. This was followed by the scientific exchange programme. Every year about 30 students of the Medical University of Gdańsk take the opportunity to go abroad for practice. These were followed by SCOPH (Public Health), SCOME (Medical Education), SCORA (Reproductive Health) and SCORP (Human Rights and Peace). Unlike the previous ones, these programmes focused on regional activities. According to the “think globally, act locally” slogan, they implement ideas of life quality improvement within their respective area.
Today the department in Gdańsk is one of the most dynamically developing IFMSA centres in Poland. It has about 170 active members and organizes annually about 30 events, addressed to a wide spectrum of Pomeranian inhabitants. Last year more than 4 thousand people benefited from our projects. We run huge year-long projects, such as “Your Health is in your Hands”, which consists of screening tests performed by medical students, peer education – HIV/AIDS education addressed to school children, Surgery Sewing Courses for medical students.
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As a student organization, “Young Pharmacy” has been operating at the Faculty of Pharmacy MUGs since 2001 and it is a student section of the Polish Pharmaceutical Society. It cooperates with the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF) and the European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (EPSA). The associated students are members of EPSA Working Committees which deal with different aspects of a pharmacist’s activities, such as: pharmacist education, promoting pharmaceutical information, professional development, coordination of events and projects related to pharmacy in Europe, public health and humanitarian work. In cooperation with IPSF “Young Pharmacy” takes part in a Student Exchange Programme. This programme gives students the opportunity to pursue a traineeship in pharmacies or industry in countries all over the world; (countries from Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania take part in the programme).
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Founded in 2004, the MUG Tourist Club is a student organization promoting active recreation. It organizes short 1-day or weekend trips, as well as longer trips during semester breaks. During these trips students explore enchanting places, admire works of culture and they can integrate with other students.