Slajd 1 - Universidad de Murcia

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ
ERASMUS
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 century
City rights: 1423
Population: 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
Medical Academy
(1950)
Military Medical
Academy (1958)
Medical University of Łódź (2002)
International Relations Office
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 academics
8500 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 MD
5 year DMD
ERASMUS
Medical University joined
Erasmus Program in 1999.
40 outgoing students in 2011
25 incoming students in 2011.
42 Partnership Institutions in 2012
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 HalleWittenberg
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
Thank you very much for
your kind attention!