Akademia Medyczna im. Piastów Śląskich we Wrocławiu

address: ul. Pasteura 1,
50-367 Wrocław
phone: + 48 71 784 10 01
fax: +48 71 784 01 09
e-mail: rektor@am.wroc.pl
internet: www.am.wroc.pl

Wroclaw Medical University

The Wroclaw Medical University consists of 5 faculties: Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Health Science and Postgraduate Education. The total number of chairs and clinics is 164. Altogether, 1072 academic professors and teachers work at the Medical University. In the academic year 2009/2010 more than 5600 students commenced or continued their studies.

The largest investment of the Wroclaw Medical University is the construction of the Clinical Centre. The Clinical Centre consists of 9 buildings with total capacity 475 000 m3 where the University Hospital health centers and clinics run or will run soon. In January 2008, the first phase of the Clinical Centre construction was finished. More than a dozen clinics, laboratory diagnostic workshops, a modern operating suite and a laboratory diagnostic centre are located there.

Wroclaw is a city with a rich medical tradition. The first hospital was founded in the 13th century. Medicine was first taught in 1745 by the establishment of the Collegium Medico-Chirurgicum. It was the first medical school in the city. At present Wroclaw is an active centre of medical student education. The process of teaching is realized by a team of highly qualified specialists. Among the staff there are 99 people with the scientific title of professor, 105 people with a Ph.D. degree and 676 people with doctorate degrees. The Medical University also performs a wide range of scientific activities and provides the whole region of Lower Silesia with highly specialized medical care

The Wroclaw Medical University has joined the Erasmus programme since the very beginning of its existence in Poland. University participates in the exchange of students, PhD students and academic staff from the academic year 1998/1999. In 2009/2010 academic year these activities are carried out in "Lifelong Learning" programme. Currently Wroclaw Medical University occupies the leading position in international exchange. The University was granted the Erasmus University Charter and this is the basis for exchange of scientific workers and students. Wroclaw Medical University has 39 international agreements of co-operation signed with other universities abroad especially with France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Netherlands and England.

The Medical University provides a six-year medicine programme and a five-year dentistry programme in English. English Division was established in 2003. The curriculum of study is identical with current in Polish. The studies are adapted to the common European programme, in keeping with the European admission standards for medical education. Teaching is carried out by a team of highly educated specialists in tutorial groups of 10-12 students in the theoretical subjects and 4-5 students during bedside teaching.

Students of English Division are mainly Swedish, Norwegian, German, American and Canadian citizens. In the 2009/2010 academic year there are 309 students of English Division, including 258 in Faculty of Medicine and 51 in Faculty of Dentistry. The university has its own campus and offers a room equipped to a higher than average standard.

The Wroclaw Medical University has been publishing the scientific periodic:

• Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine, www.advances.am.wroc.pl
• Dental and Medical Problems, www.dmp.am.wroc.pl
• Polymers in Medicine, www.polimery.am.wroc.pl

Our University has also its own monthly bulletin Gazeta Uczelniana, www.gazeta.am.wroc.pl, bring-ing news from the academic life of the university. There is also a periodic Bakcyl, www.bakcyl.am.wroc.pl published by the Students' Self-Government Association.

They lived and worked in Wroclaw:

• Alois Alzheimer – neurologist and psychiatrist, who presented his findings regarding degeneration of the brain cortex (Alzheimer's Disease).
• Jan Ewangelista Purkyne – physiologist, he created the world's first Department of Physiology at the University of Wroc?aw. He is best known for his 1837 discovery of Purkyne cells, large neurons with many branching dendrites found in the cerebellum.
• Wiktor Bross – surgeon, in 1958 performed the first operation on the open heart in Poland.
• Ludwig Hirszfeld – microbiologist, established the basis of the blood groups science.
• Jan Mikulicz-Radecki – professor of surgery, he was a pioneer of thoracosurgery.
• Robert Koch – creator of modern bacteriology (Nobel Prize in 1905).
• Paul Ehrlich – pioneer of present chemotherapy (Nobel Prize in 1908).
• Johan Pfannenstielow – performed the first Caesarean in the world in St. Elisabeth hospital.
• Albert Neisser – dermatologist, dicovered a bacteria called after his name Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

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