Medical University of Gdansk

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Medical University of Gdańsk (MUG) is the largest medical university in northern Poland, located in one of the most beautiful cities in Europe with an old town and beautiful sandy beaches. MUG educates nearly 6000 undergraduate and postgraduate students at four Faculties: Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, and The Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology. MUG offers various courses (Premedical Course, Pre-Health Course), Medicine Doctor Programme, Nursing Programme, Dietetics Programme, and the Ph.D. Programs, which are taught fully in English.
International students constitute almost 16% of MUG students and represent more than half of all international students in Gdańsk. Most of them came from Sweden, Norway, India, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Canada, the UK, the USA, Iraq, Germany, and Spain.
The MUG constantly modernizes its clinical and teaching facilities. At the end of 2011, the University Clinical Centre has been successfully modernized. Our main hospital – the MUG Invasive Medicine Centre is one of the most modern hospitals in Europe. New investment MUG Non-Invasive Medicine Centre started in September 2015. Together, this will be one of the largest and newest hospital complexes in Poland.
The dormitories are situated on campus, very close to the classroom buildings. The campus consists of 4 dormitories with space for 1000 students, the student club “Medyk”, a grocery shop, and a photocopy shop. There is also a canteen, which offers meals at student-friendly prices. All the dormitories are connected to the Internet.
The scientific excellence of the MUG was confirmed in 2012 when the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education recognized the Faculty of Pharmacy with Subfaculty of Laboratory Medicine as one of 6 Leading National Research Centre (KNOW).
The mission of the Medical University of Gdańsk which was established in 1945 and refers to the 16th and 17th-century tradition of Atheneum Gedanese and the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University is to provide tertiary and post-graduate education in medical professions, to conduct scientific research in the field of biomedical, pharmaceutical, epidemiological, promotion of health and clinical sciences as well as to implement and promote new medical technologies used in diagnostics and therapy. Our university, as a founding body of clinical hospitals, participates in the creation of a health care system in the region providing highly specialist diagnostic-therapeutic services, training medical personnel, and providing expertise and opinions for local and state authorities. Following the principle of academic freedom, humanism, ethics, and love of truth, our university combines the education and upbringing of the youth, scientific research, and diagnostic-therapeutic services.

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