MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZERASMUS

Training week, Murcia 07-11.05.2012

To study in Poland

Poland in short

Official name: Republic of Poland /Rzeczpospolita (short form: Poland/ Polska)

Location: Central Europe

Language: Polish

Capital city: Warsaw

Major cities: Kraków, Łódź =Lodz, Poznań, Wrocław, Gdańsk

Climate: temperate with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters with frequent precipitation; mild summers with frequent showers and thundershowers

Monetary unit: zloty (PLN)

To study in Poland

Poland is a country of beautiful landscapes. Its’ territory extends across several geographical regions, from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Carpathian Mountains in the south, through the post-glacial lakes districts like the Masurian Great Lakes, lowlands and highlands.

Łódź

Establishment: First half of 14th centuryCity rights: 1423Population: around 750 000

In the 19th century Lodz was one of the Europe’s biggest and fastest growing textile industry center. At that time, a new identity of the city - “a promised land” and “a city of many cultures” was created. The city where people of different nationalities and religions shared the same dream of a success.

60 years of Medical Education in Łódź

International Relations Office

Medical Academy (1950)

Military Medical Academy (1958)

Medical University of Łódź (2002)

The Medical University is one of the biggest state medical university in Poland.

Faculty of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry Faculty of Pharmacy Faculty of Health Sciences with the Division of Nursing and Midwifery Faculty of Biomedical Sciences and Postgraduate Training Military Faculty of Medicine with the Division of Studies in English and the

Division of Physiotherapy

5 teaching hospitals; 77 departments. 1600 employees, including 180 professors,180 associate professors, over 850

PhD academics8500 students

Medical programs in English for foreign candidates were initiated in the academic year 2003/2004.

Year by year the number of applicants interested to pursue medical education at the Medical of Lodz was growing.Only last year over 80 students of medical and dentistry programs have been graduated.

Presently almost 300 students from such countries as USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, UK, Germany, Nigeria , Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia are enrolled at the following programs:

4 year MD 6 year MD5 year DMD

ERASMUS

Medical University joined Erasmus Program in 1999.

40 outgoing students in 2011

25 incoming students in 2011.

1. Medical University of Innsbruck 15. Universidad de Barcelona 29. F.-A. Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg

2. Universiteit Antwerpen 16. Universidad de Murcia 30. Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

3. Katholike Universiteit Leuven 17. Universidad de Malaga 31. Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice

4. Universitè de Liège 18. Universidad de Valladolid 32. Universisty of Ljubljana

5. Medical University – Plovdiv 19. Universidad Europea de Madrid 33. Universita degli studi di Pavia

6. Charles University in Prague 20. Universidad de Cadiz 34. Universita degli studi di Padova

7. Universiteit Maastricht 21. Universidad de Zaragoza 35. Kings College University of London

8. University of Nijmegen 22. Universidad de Sevilla 36. Universidade do Porto

9. Vrije University 23. Universidade de Lisboa 37. Universita degli studi di Milano

10. Universite de d'Angers 24. University of Kuopio 38. Universidad de Valencia

11. Universite de Reims 25. University of Oulu 39. Marthin-Luther Universitat Halle-Wittenberg

12. Universite Claude Bernard 26. Kaunas College 40. Universitatea de medicina si Farmacie Cluj-Napoca

13. Universite Henri Poincare 27. Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin 41. Semmelweis University

14. Universidad de Miguel Hernandez de Elche 28. Universitat des Saarlandes 42. University of Edinburgh

42 Partnership Institutions in 2012

Thank you very much for your kind attention!