A record number of students, almost 10,000, will begin their medical studies on 1 October. The Ministry of Health has increased the enrolment limits for single full-time master’s programmes conducted in Polish in the medical faculty to 5836 places. Together with the other forms of education, the total enrolment limit for the medical faculty will be 9481 places.

In Poland, future doctors will be educated at 23 universities, of which 9 report directly to the Ministry of Health. There are three medical higher schools in Warsaw alone; apart from the Warsaw Medical University, doctors are also educated at the Łazarski University and the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medical University.

This year’s medical school enrolment broke the record at the University of Zielona Góra, where there were 46 applicants for a place. The University of Opole was also in the lead (ca. 19 persons per place), the K. Pułaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom (ca. 19 persons per place), the Medical University of Białystok (ca. 15 persons per place) and the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (ca. 14 persons per place).

The largest number of medical students will start their studies this year at the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice (723) and the Medical University of Łódź (720, of which 200 are financed by the Ministry of National Defence). The Medical University of Warsaw will educate 550 future doctors, and the Medical Universities of Lublin and Poznań 340 each.

It is worth recalling that this year medical faculties are being opened by the Mazovia Academy in Płock, the President Stanisław Wojciechowski Academy in Kalisz, the Academy of Applied Sciences in Tarnów and the Academy of Medical and Social Sciences in Elbląg.

Next year, medical studies will also start at the University of Warsaw and the Catholic University of Lublin.

Adrian Andrzejewski