WE ARE THE BEST MEDICAL SCHOOL IN POLAND

We are proud to inform you that our university is voted the best medical school in Poland in 2009.
This first place we have got within ranking of Rzeczpospolita and Pespektywy - Polish newspapers.
This is our students, scientific employee, teachers and administrative staff collective success.
CONGRATULATIONS!
IRO



THE AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING, LEARNING, AND TECHNOLOGY

With a great pleasure we would like to inform that our Professor Marek F. Niedziela - Head of the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, was granted the Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology. Awarding ceremony was a part of the 20th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning in Jacksonville, Florida, USA on April 15, 2009.
Congratulations!
IRO



A NEW COOPERATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
With a great pleasure we inform that in 5 March, 2009 was signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine of the University of Edinburgh. Memorandum was signed in Edinburgh by Rector of our university - prof. Jacek Wysocki and Vice-Principal of the partner university – prof. Stephen G. Hillier.
This agreement has opened possibilities for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students exchange for electives and scientific trainings.
We would like to emphasize that we are the first Polish medical university which has official agreement of cooperation with the University of Edinburgh; it seems that we are in the best universities company.
IRO



XIVth CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN SOCIETIES
FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND
POZNAN, POLAND, JUNE 3-6, 2009
more info: www.FESSH2009.pl
IRO


COMPETENCY BASED CURRICULUM
In early 2008, Poznan University of Medical Sciences began the careful planning of an exciting new medical curriculum, a competency based curriculum. In this curriculum, students are given specific subject matter and clinical objectives and outcomes by the faculty. Consequently, expectations and evaluations for students both in the basic sciences and in the clinics are made very clear. In addition, students will be instructed in communication skills, professionalism, interpretation and use of the scientific literature, diagnostic and treatment skills, rapport building with patients, sensitivity to moral, ethical, cultural, and social issues and life long learning skills. Students will also receive training in problem based learning through extensive use of clinical vignettes in their basic sciences. The implementation of this curriculum, to be put into place in the fall of 2009, will make this Medical School a unique institution for students looking for a strong academic program where academic and clinical expectations are clearly defined. Such a curriculum will greatly increase the value of the degree at Poznan University of Medical Sciences and facilitate good residency placement.
IRO


DR. SIEMIONOW'S FACE TRANSPLANT
We are pleased and proud to inform you about a landmark face transplant performed in December 2008 by a team led by Dr. Maria Siemionow, a graduate and professor of surgery of Poznan University of Medical Sciences. Dr Siemionow is at present the head of plastic surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
IRO