Medicine

HISTORY

The Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice (WNMK) was established under the Ordinance of the Minister of Health and Social Welfare of June 16, 1975 transforming one Faculty of Medicine of the Silesian Medical Academy into two faculties: the Faculty of Medical Sciences based in Katowice and the Faculty of Medical Sciences based in Zabrze. In the same year, the first recruitment of students for the medical faculty took place. The Clinical Teaching Team in Tychy was incorporated into the WNMK and for its needs the Central Teaching Hospital in Katowice-Ligota was transferred in 1974. This decision significantly supplemented the academic clinical facilities, previously based mainly on the City Hospital No. 4 in Katowice, which in 1960 was transformed into a Clinical Hospital. Important events in the development of the clinical infrastructure serving the growing teaching needs of WNMK were the commissioning in 1977 of the first Polish Institute of Ophthalmology in Katowice (since 1989 functioning as a department and clinic on the premises of a new clinical hospital) and the Upper Silesian Medical Center in Katowice – Ochojec, which is the seat of dynamically developing Chairs and clinics of cardiology and cardiosurgery, since 1986 in the structure of the Upper Silesian Center of Cardiology. In the years 1990 – 2001 WNMK had a Nursing Department, which was eventually incorporated into the Department of Care and Health Education.

In the initial period of the faculty’s activity, an urgent need was to recruit, for the needs of WNMK, research and teaching staff as well as to provide an appropriate teaching infrastructure and research base. A significant improvement in this respect, and at the same time a factor conducive to the consolidation of the department, was the commissioning of the first complex housing medical theory departments and the administration of the Military University of Lodz (building C1 in Katowice-Ligota, 1978), with, among others, Chairs and Departments of Normal Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Pathomorphology, General Medical Biology. In the following years, not without obstacles related to financial difficulties, further complexes of medical theory plants were put into operation (buildings C2 and C3 in Katowice – Ligota). Thus, teaching facilities were created, housing not only 15 departments and departments of the theory of medicine, but also lecture halls, a library, dean’s office and faculty administration rooms. In the following years, units representing the area of medical theory were gradually modernized, improving both the teaching infrastructure and the instruments for conducting scientific research. In 2005, the Experimental Medicine Center was incorporated into the structure of the Faculty as an experimental and breeding unit. A very significant event was the opening, in 2012, of the first in Poland and one of the most modern in Europe Medical Teaching and Simulation Center, where selected classes in the medical education program are conducted. At the same time, in the first twenty years of WNMK’s operation, the clinical units in Katowice were consolidated and the modernization programs in these units were continued.

The structure of the WNMK today was largely shaped at the end of the 20th century. It is also a period of dynamic development of activity in the field of teaching, research and clinical activities. WNMK achieved a high position on the map of Polish academic medicine. WNMK employees joined the activities of domestic and international scientific communities.

 

FACULTIES

The Faculty’s base is constituted by the Medical Theory Institutes located on the Katowice-Ligota campus, which includes: 11 Chairs and 7 Departments, the Foreign Language Center, the Center for Research on Educational Effects, Doctoral Studies and the Center of Experimental Medicine. There is also a Medical Education and Simulation Center on the campus – the most modern medical education center in Poland.  The clinical base of the Faculty consists of 5 clinical hospitals of the Medical University of Silesia located in Katowice, including mainly:  University Clinical Center prof. K. Gibiński located in Katowice Ligota at 14 Medyków Street and in Katowice at 35 Ceglana Street (www.uck.katowice.pl), Independent Public Clinical Hospital for them. Andrzej Mielęcki (www.spskm.katowice.pl), Independent Public Clinical Hospital – Upper Silesian Medical Center for them. prof. Leszek Giec (www.gcm.pl), Independent Public Clinical Hospital – Upper Silesian Children’s Health Center  (www.gczd.katowice.pl). The Faculty also uses units based on the so-called „Foreign base” located at the Hospital of Dr. Urbanowicz and Dr. Kośny in Chorzów and in the Provincial Specialist Hospital st. Barbara in Sosnowiec.

 

681 people are employed at the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, including: 342 academic teachers (45 professors, 65 habilitated doctors, 232 doctors and masters), 142 scientific and technical employees, 40 administrative employees, 152 service employees and 5 library service employees.

 

 

TEACHING AND SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES

The main research trends are the use of stem cells in cardiology, neurology, studies of the hormonal activity of adipose tissue and its therapeutic modification, physiological experiments on the processes of neuroregeneration, and the use of cell culture in pharmacology and experimental nephrology.

 

Significant advances are also made in neurosurgery, cardiosurgery, and ophthalmology and orthopedics. It is worth mentioning the cutting-edge research in the field of obesity and diabetes, as well as other endocrine diseases in children and adolescents.

Faculty: MEDICINE

The medical program in English has been offered at the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, since 1996. It meets the educational standards established by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland.

 

• Original or notarized copy of the high school diploma
• Identification document (to be presented for verification)
• Scanned ID/passport photo (resolution: 300 DPI)
• Certificate confirming English language proficiency
• Receipt of the registration fee payment in the amount of 85/100 PLN* (transferred to this account number) (*100 PLN applies to candidates qualified on the basis of an entrance examination conducted by the University).
• Apostille – required if the high school/college diploma was issued in a country that is a signatory to the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961, which waives the requirement of legalization of foreign public documents.
• NAWA recognition statement confirming the recognition of the high school/college diploma. This applies in the case of documents not recognized in Poland by operation of law, issued in a country with which the Republic of Poland has not signed a mutual educational document recognition agreement, or documents from a country with which Poland has such an agreement but the specific document is not covered by it.

If a candidate’s school-leaving certificate does not include the required subject(s), or if the certificate was issued in a country other than those listed in the Terms and procedures, the candidate will be required to take an oral entrance exam in English language on a date chosen from the available time slots published for candidates.

During the entrance exam, the candidate’s knowledge at the Polish high-school level will be assessed in the following subjects: