The Faculty of Medicine has over 100 years of history in educating medical students. Every year, about 450 students graduate from medical studies at this faculty (including 150 in English). The high level of education at the faculty has been confirmed by awarding the scientific category A in the classification of the Ministry of Science. Both students and academics decide about the success of a faculty. The first ones have repeatedly been laureates of the most prestigious competition of the Ministry of Science - the Diamond Grant. Research conducted at the Faculty of Medicine is of a high standard, as evidenced by the results presented in international journals. The units of the Faculty of Medicine actively participate in domestic and foreign research programs.
The origin of the Faculty is associated with the establishment of the University. As early as 1843 doctor Karol Marcinkowski, a member of the City Council, had plans for establishing the Surgeons’ School in Poznań, and in 1845 together with doctor Teofil Matecki put forward a petition for the establishment of the University, approved and accepted by the Parliament of the Great Duchy of Poznań.
Poznań Society of the Friends of Science (PSFS), set up in 1857, has significantly contributed to the development of the University. In 1884 it organised the 4th Convention of Polish Doctors and Natural Scientists.
In 1919 the Poznań community of doctors put forward a proposal for the organisation of medical courses for students who interrupted their studies at German universities. In the early 1920s, professor Heliodor Święcicki put forward a proposal to professor Adam Wrzosek, the then head of the Science and Academic Schools’ Division of the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment for establishing the Faculty of Medicine. The final resolution of the Senate on the Faculty of Medicine was adopted on July 25th, 1920, while professor Adam Wrzosek was appointed Professor of the Chair of Philosophy and History of Medicine and elected the first Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
The most important achievements of the Faculty in the pre-war period include: development of experimental endocrinology in the Chair of Histology and Embryology, preparation of the „Outline of disability classification” in the Chair of Hygiene, BCG vaccinations introduced in the Chair of Medical Microbiology (a pioneering venture in Poland), development of principles for tomography imaging in the Chair of Medical Radiology.
Medical university studies in the period of German occupation have a well-deserved place in the history of science and civilisation. The liquidation of the university and the seizure of its property begun on September 11th, 1939, shortly after the German army had entered Poznań. The Clandestine University of Western Territories had its branches in Częstochowa and Kielce. After the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, the Faculty of Medicine, headed by the tireless professor Wrzosek, was reactivated, initially in Grodzisk Mazowiecki and later in Cracow, where it operated until 1945. The staff of the Poznań Faculty of Medicine also worked at the Faculty of Medicine of the Warsaw University and in the School of Professor Zaorski.
The second institution which cultivated the tradition of the Poznań Faculty of Medicine was the Polish Faculty of Medicine of the University of Edinburgh, headed by a brilliant Poznań surgeon, professor Antoni Jurasz. The faculty was launched on March 22nd, 1942 and operated until March 31st, 1949.
The post-war scientific, teaching and personal achievements of the Faculty of Medicine include: The division of the Faculty of Medicine into two Faculties in 1993 was a significant organisational change. Today, the Faculty of Medicine I is responsible for providing undergraduate programmes for medical students. Every year the Faculty has been conducting scientific research in the field of modern medicine, immunology, endocrinology, oncology, anaesthesiology, surgery, nephrology, gynaecology and obstetrics, child oncology and haematology, nutrition diseases, genetics, audiology and phoniatrics and much more...
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