Faculty of Medicine with Subfaculty of Dentistry
| Dean: | Prof. Janusz Siebert, M.D., Ph.D. |
| E-mail: | deanmed@gumed.edu.pl |
| Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Medicine – Department for Students Affairs | |
| Address: | Al. Zwycięstwa 41/42, 80-210 Gdańsk Atheneum Gedanense Novum building |
| Tel.: | +48 58 349 1005 |
| Fax: | +48 58 349 1068 |
| Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Medicine – Department for Research and Organisation Affairs | |
| Address: | ul. M. Skłodowskiej-Curie 3a, 80-210 Gdańsk |
| Tel.: | +48 58 349 1006 |
The Faculty of Medicine was established in 1945. Its goals are inextricably linked with the centuries-old tradition of medical and natural science practices in Gdańsk, particularly in Gimnazjum Gdańskie (Gymnasium Gedanense) founded in 1558, and later given a more academic name (Gymnasium Academicum sive Illustre, Atheneum Gedanense).
Eminent doctors ran the department of medicine and anatomy, created in Gimnazjum Gdańskie. The most recognized lecturer was Joachim Oelhafius, a native of Gdańsk, mostly renowned for being the first in Northern Europe to perform a public autopsy. Equally outstanding was the anatomist Jan Kulmus, whose large anatomical atlas “Tabulae anatomicae” was published in Gdańsk in 1932. The work was released in numerous editions and was translated into several languages.
The Faculty of Medicine educates its students in three majors – medical (homogenous 6-year MSc studies) and medical stomatological (homogenous 5-year MSc studies), as well as dental techniques (3-year 1st degree BSc studies). The Faculty’s high level of education was confirmed by the Accreditation Committee for Medical Universities working at the Conference of Presidents of Medical Universities, and by The State Accreditation Committee, which granted the Faculty a 5-year-long accreditation for both MSc majors. Moreover, classes in the medical major are also conducted in English (since 2002).
The Faculty of Medicine together with the Subfaculty of Dentistry educates 2363 students. Among them there are 434 foreign students who attend classes in English at the medical English-speaking Department. Those students come from European Union Member States, the United States of America, Canada, India and Nigeria.
Graduates can continue their education at the Faculty of Medicine within the framework of a 4-year-long PhD study programme in which a few dozen doctors participate. Throughout its 62years of activity, the Faculty has educated 13.474 doctors, 4.520 dentists and 91 Bachelors of Science.
The Faculty comprises 69 Departments, Institutes and Clinics and the elementary teaching tasks are performed by 662 university teachers, including 98 independent research workers, 40 of whom have a professor’s degree. As a result of dynamic research activities, the Faculty can pride itself on as many as 1831 PhD programmes, 290 post doctorate programmes and more than 160 people who were awarded the degree of professor. Teaching is supported by resources and equipment situated in nearby elementary educational facilities, as well as clinical and pre-clinical facilities.
Atheneum Gedanense NovumNoteworthy among teaching facilities is the structure which houses the Theory Departments, with a cubature of 62.300 m3, put to use in 1975, with three amphitheatre-style lecture halls, housing 12 departments and institutes, with modern research equipment and an educational facility Atheneum Gedanese Novum on Aleja Zwycięstwa, along with fully-equipped seminar rooms and an elegant lecture hall Auditorium Primum.
Practical clinical classes take place in the Academic Clinical Centre (Akademickie Centrum Kliniczne) and in some of the health-care institutions in Gdańsk. The Academic Clinical Centre is the largest hospital in Northern Poland, which administers a few dozen buildings situated in the following streets: Dębinki, Smoluchowskiego and Kliniczna. Most of these buildings were erected between 1908 and 1927. The current educational activities and health-care services are performed in 58 clinics and institutes with more than 1200 hospital beds.
The hospital facilities are regularly modernized and clinics and institutes are supplied with modern diagnostic and therapeutic equipment. In 2007 construction work started on a modern clinical hospital – the Centre for Invasive Medicine, which will contain mostly surgical units, modern lecture halls and a recreational complex.
Aside from organizing practical classes aiming at preparing students for their profession, and postgraduate studies, the clinics perform highly specialized diagnostic and therapeutic services, not only for the people from the Tri-city and neighbouring towns, but also for the whole of Northern and Central Poland. Research in both elementary and clinical analysis is undergoing constant development. In the ranking of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for 61 medical faculties and institutes, the Faculty of Medicine MUG was awarded first place in the category of medical research units.
Since 1998 the Faculty of Medicine has been participating in the SOCRATES/Erasmus Programme and currently, in –The Lifelong Learning Programme, both of which organize student exchanges with partner universities of the European Union and enable lecturers to give lectures abroad. We have also introduced the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).