The Medical University of Silesia (
Polish: Śląski Uniwersytet Medyczny) is a
university located in
Katowice,
Poland.
The university has 10,218 students and a teaching staff of 1201, including 295 professors. There are five faculties:
Medicine,
Dentistry,
Pharmacy,
Public Health, Health Sciences (includes degrees in
nursing, physical therapy, dietetics). The
English
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divisions in the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry have 517 and 57 students, respectively
History
The university was established as the ''Akademia Lekarska'' (English: Medical Academy) upon its establishment on March 20, 1948 in
Bytom
Bytom (Polish pronunciation: ; Silesian: ''Bytōm, Bytōń'', german: Beuthen O.S.) is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland. Located in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland, the city is 7 km northwest of Katowice, the regional capital ...
. The name was officially changed to ''Śląska Akademia Medyczna im. Ludwika Waryńskiego'' (English:
Ludwik Waryński
Ludwik Tadeusz Waryński (24 September 1856 at Martynówka – 2 March 1889 in Shlisselburg) was an activist and theoretician of the socialist movement in Poland.
Biography
Waryński was born at Martynówka, Kiev Governorate (Мартині� ...
Silesian Medical Academy) in March 1950.
The university's first rector and one of its key founders was epidemiologist Professor
Brunon Nowakowski. During the first decade of the life of the school, four towns were considered as its possible seats, namely Rokitnica, Zabrze, Bytom and Katowice. In December 1957 the Regional Council a passed decree establishing the ultimate location of the school in Katowice.
In 1971 the Faculty of Pharmacy was established with majors in pharmacy, medical analytics, and environmental bioanalysis (the latter since 1978). In 1974 the Central Teaching Hospital in Katowice-Ligota started admitting patients. Also, the Nursing Faculty in Katowice-Ligota was established, which awards a master's degree in nursing (in 1990 the faculty was changed into a division of the Katowice Medical Faculty and in 2002 was included in the Faculty of Health Care and Education).
In 1975 the Clinical Teaching Center was opened in Tychy, and the second Medical Faculty was established in Katowice-Ligota. In the same year the Interdepartmental Institute of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation was established (presently, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care). In 1977 the Polish Institute of Ophthalmology was established as a Department of the Medical Faculty in Katowice.
In 1996 the university was accredited by
United States Department of Education
The United States Department of Education is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Departme ...
and an English language division was established. The university has since obtained accreditation from all 50 states' medical boards, most recently
California. The inaugural class consisted of a handful of students from the United States and the division now includes 517 students from countries in seven continents, most commonly the United States,
Sweden,
Norway, the
United Kingdom,
Israel, and
Saudi Arabia and South Africa . A chapter of the
American Medical Students Association (AMSA) was established by the division's students in 2002. The division's Israeli students have the option of completing their final two years of study in
Barzilai Medical Center
Barzilai Medical Center ( he, מרכז רפואי ברזילי, ''Merkaz Refu'i Barzilai''; ar, مركز برزيلاي الطبي) is a 617-bed hospital in Ashkelon in southern Israel. The hospital serves a population of 500,000, including a la ...
in Ashkelon, Israel.
In 1998, the Zabrze-Gliwice Medical Complex was founded.
In 2002 the Faculty of Public Health and Faculty of Health Care and Education were established and the Faculty of Public Health was founded.
The
Sejm of the Republic of Poland granted university status on March 30, 2007 and the current name has been used since its official chance on June 20, 2007.
External links
Medical University of Silesia in Katowice
Medical University of Silesia in Katowice
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Universities and colleges in Katowice
Silesia
Educational institutions established in 1948
1948 establishments in Poland