About Olsztyn
Olsztyn is a city on the Łyna River in northeastern Poland. Olsztyn is the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, and is a city with powiat rights.
Founded in the 14th century, Olsztyn was under the control and influence of the Teutonic Order until 1466, when it was incorporated into the Polish Crown. For centuries the city was an important centre of trade, crafts, science and administration in the Warmia region linking Warsaw with Königsberg. At the time Olsztyn was inhabited by ethnic Masovians and was predominantly Roman Catholic. Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772 Warmia was annexed by Prussia, becoming a part of newly established Eastern Prussia. Olsztyn entered a period of economic stagnation and decline, devastated by a serious of wars as well as plagues which depopulated the city almost completely. After the partition Olsztyn ceased to be the property of the clergy and was in the hands of the Prussian king. In the 19th century the city changed its status completely, becoming the most prominent economic hub of the southern part of Eastern Prussia. The construction of a railway and industrialization greatly contributed to Olsztyn's significance.
The city remained part of Germany under the name Allenstein until 1945 when it was captured by the Red Army and handed over to the Polish authorities. As a result of the deliberate devastation caused by the Soviets during the final stages of World War II, 40% of the buildings were completely destroyed. After the war Olsztyn rapidly recovered and grew to be one of the most important centres of commerce in the country.
Since 1999 Olsztyn is the capital city of the Warmia-Masuria. In the same year, the University of Warmia and Masuria was founded from the fusion of three other local universities. Today, the Castle of Warmian Bishops houses a museum and is a venue for concerts, art exhibitions, film shows and other cultural events, which make Olsztyn a popular tourist destination.
The most important sights of the city include the medieval Old Town and the Olsztyn Cathedral, which dates back more than 600 years. The picturesque market square is part of the European Route of Brick Gothic and the cathedral is regarded as one of the greatest monuments of Gothic architecture in Poland.
Founded in the 14th century, Olsztyn was under the control and influence of the Teutonic Order until 1466, when it was incorporated into the Polish Crown. For centuries the city was an important centre of trade, crafts, science and administration in the Warmia region linking Warsaw with Königsberg. At the time Olsztyn was inhabited by ethnic Masovians and was predominantly Roman Catholic. Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772 Warmia was annexed by Prussia, becoming a part of newly established Eastern Prussia. Olsztyn entered a period of economic stagnation and decline, devastated by a serious of wars as well as plagues which depopulated the city almost completely. After the partition Olsztyn ceased to be the property of the clergy and was in the hands of the Prussian king. In the 19th century the city changed its status completely, becoming the most prominent economic hub of the southern part of Eastern Prussia. The construction of a railway and industrialization greatly contributed to Olsztyn's significance.
The city remained part of Germany under the name Allenstein until 1945 when it was captured by the Red Army and handed over to the Polish authorities. As a result of the deliberate devastation caused by the Soviets during the final stages of World War II, 40% of the buildings were completely destroyed. After the war Olsztyn rapidly recovered and grew to be one of the most important centres of commerce in the country.
Since 1999 Olsztyn is the capital city of the Warmia-Masuria. In the same year, the University of Warmia and Masuria was founded from the fusion of three other local universities. Today, the Castle of Warmian Bishops houses a museum and is a venue for concerts, art exhibitions, film shows and other cultural events, which make Olsztyn a popular tourist destination.
The most important sights of the city include the medieval Old Town and the Olsztyn Cathedral, which dates back more than 600 years. The picturesque market square is part of the European Route of Brick Gothic and the cathedral is regarded as one of the greatest monuments of Gothic architecture in Poland.
About UWM
University
The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (UWM) was founded on 1 September 1999. The establishment resulted from merging three institutions of higher education in Olsztyn, i.e. the Academy of Agriculture and Technology, the Higher School of Pedagogy, and Warmian Theological Institute.
At first, in 1999, there were 12 faculties, 32 branches of study, and 24.500 students at UWM. The University also had a right to grant doctoral degrees in 13 scientific disciplines, and postdoctoral degrees in 6 branches.
UWM has undergone an intense transformation since its beginnings. Achieving such a progress would not be possible without funds of the European Union. Educational and scientific bases of the University have been significantly reinforced, for example by purchasing high-tech laboratory equipment.
Over the years, UWM offer was extended to new branches of study, and consequently, new faculties were established. Currently, there are 17 faculties at UWM, 11 of which have full academic rights, namely the right to grant postdoctoral degrees (in 13 disciplines).
Furthermore, the doctoral degree can be granted at 16 faculties, within 24 disciplines.
In the Academic Year 2014/15, there are 27.000 students that are educated at 17 faculties, and 65 branches of study, within either full-time or part-time studies. Additionally, there are also 600 doctoral candidates, and 1500 post-graduate students.
Kortowo Campus
services, The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn is situated in a picturesque part of city - Kortowo campus, the unquestionable pride of the University. Learning, leisure and recreation - all these needs are satisfied at the campus. Kortowo occupies an area of 230 hectares and is surrounded by forest and 4 lakes, the biggest one - Kortowskie Lake creates great conditions for leisure activities. Kortowo satisfies all needs of students living here, providing them everything they need for life:teaching buildings,sports fields and recreation areas,swimming pool,12 dormitories,shops,sport stadium,medicine center,cafeterias,banks,post office,student clubs,parks and greenery,and space with very well developed infrastructure, including modern laboratories, lecture halls, research facilities.
Kortowo harbor offers a water equipment rental service, including sail boats, rowing boats, kayaks, water bikes and surfboats. The university also has a modern swimming pool complex, consisting of a main pool, a small basin, Jacuzzi and saunas. Swimming competition, in which students of the University are very successful, are held regularly at the pool.
At Kortowo there is also a stable where students can take horse riding lessons offered by qualified instructors or simply take a ride. For those keen on tennis there are several open courts located in different areas of Kortowo. In the center of Kortowo there is also an athletic stadium, where a lot of regional and national sport events take place.
For those who like jogging, there is a great place - the forest near Kortowo. In Olsztyn you can find about 44 km of cycling paths, however far more interesting are the forest paths in Kortowo, which will enable you to enjoy the beautiful landscape and clean air far from urban traffic and noise. The most common winter sports in Kortowo include cross-country skiing and sledging down Kortowo hill. Sledging during wintertime has almost become a tradition at Kortowo campus.
Library
The scientific heart of the University beats in its library. Since 2007, UWM has had the largest and modern library in north-eastern Poland. A modern, "smart" building with an area of nearly 20 thousand square meters houses and a collection of over a millions items. The library offers reading rooms with free access to resources, booths for individual work, rooms for group work and booths with audio-video equipment as well as a self-check system for self-service borrowing and returning of materials. In 2011 Kortowo has been awarded by monthly National Geographic Traveler in the national contest "Polish 7 wonders of nature". And the most beautiful academic campus in Poland.
AccommodationIn Kortowo, you can choose one of ten dormitories. They come with single, double and triple rooms, furnished, with private bathrooms, refrigerators and Internet access. Each dorm includes a shared kitchen, a laundry room and a TV room. We increase the standard of the dorms each year, so some of them even include a gym and a sports hall. Room price ranges from PLN 290 to 420 per month.
Catering
Kortowo offers one central student canteen, one upscale restaurant at the marina on the lake and plenty of fast food bars. All of the venues are open all day long, and many also on Sundays and public holidays. They serve tasty and inexpensive Polish cuisine, exquisite delicacies or fast food.
ServicesYou do not have to leave Kortowo to do your shopping, buy books or textbooks, make copies, fix your computer or shoes or take care of business at the bank. There is a hairdresser's and a beauty salon on location, and even health care and a pharmacy.
Leisure
In Kortowo, you can spend your free time actively and effectively all year round, whether it's swimming in the lake, renting water recreation equipment or making use of the numerous sports fields and courts, walking trails and outdoor gym. If the weather is unfavourable for spending time outdoors, the sports halls, gyms and the swimming pool are at your disposal.
Faculty Information
Students are educated to become doctors and researchers. The other major at the faculty is nursing. Complicated brain operations, pioneering in the whole region of Warmia and Mazury, have been carried out at the faculty of medicine. In the nearest future the university is going to build a new university (teaching) hospital and state-of-the-art stem cell laboratory. Research conducted at the faculty concentrates on the therapeutics of stem cell application in the treatment of human diseases, also neurological, and minimally invasive surgical procedures, also stereoradiosurgery. The scientific staff also carries out research on developing and validating diagnostic tests for tumor classification.
Contact:
Żołnierska str. 14 C
10-561 Olsztyn
Tel. 89 524 61 01
Fax 89 524 61 14
www.uwm.edu.pl/wnm/en/
wnm@uwm.edu.pl
Faculty Information
The Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS) of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn was established on 17th July 2007.In the academic year 2007/2008 the Faculty continued studies in Nursing School (previously performed at the Faculty of Biology) and began preparations to an MD program in the School of Medicine and MSc studies in Nursing School.
The Medical School Curriculum Committee developed a program of studies, taking into account the goal of introducing modern teaching methods, attracting senior researchers from all over the country and to systematically create new preclinical and clinical departments in accordance to a specific timetable. At the same time efforts were made to take over the 103rd Military Hospital from the Ministry of National Defense, culminating in the creation of its Clinical University Hospital, which was opened by the Minister of Health – Dr. Ewa Kopacz in June 2009. As a result of an agreement with the Governor of Warmia and Mazury UWM an agreement was signed with the directors of many institutions such as the Regional Hospital, the Provincial Children’s Hospital, Independent Public Group of Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases in Olsztyn and the Provincial Hospital for the Rehabilitation of Children in America near Olsztynek, to make available more external clinical units as a base for newly forming clinics , clinical units and departments. A similar agreement was signed with the Director of the Cancer Center at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Hospital of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
Faculty Information
1st of October 2008, the charter class was inaugurated at the School of Medicine. New medical students began classes in modern and furnished rooms in the Department of Anatomy and the Department of Histology and Embryology, the Department of Medical Biology, the Department of Human Physiology and the Department of Emergency Medicine. Some classes in the field of basic science are conducted on the basis of existing and well-prepared University units, such as the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Biophysics, the Department of Biochemistry, the Department of Biology, or the Department of Psychology and Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences at UWM.
1st of October 2010 studies started in the English Language Program at the School of Medicine. Our University made a big effort, and also incurred huge costs for the renovation of its own facilities for the newly created departments and establishments and their equipment. Well prepared projects that obtained funding from the European Union include a modern Collegium Anatomicum were the Department of Anatomy and the Department of Histology and Human Embryology are located. EU funds supported diagnostic testing equipment and the Stem Cell Laboratory of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery. The Laboratory installed boxing laboratory cultures of human cells to meet the highest sanitary requirements and intended primarily for research work on Magnetic Resonance capacity of 3 Tesla. The Faculty of Medical Sciences is also one of the main users of the very sophisticated and well equipped Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory opened 21st May 2010.
It must be underlined that the strength of scientific research and teaching within a large university is its ability to use its vast database and the real possibility of internal cooperation. This applies to the Department of Biology, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Department of Food Science. The Faculty of Medical Sciences also takes full advantage of university-wide structures, such as the modern University Library opened in 2007. The New Library building allowed the merging of distributed collections and significantly raised the quality of services offered. The new building can accommodate one and a half million library collections and provides 500 places in the reading rooms, 300 chairs in common areas such as classrooms and group work rooms. 28th of February 2011 the Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles Division of Medical Sciences gave the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Warmia and Mazury the right to confer the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
A hospital attached to the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
1. University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn - Clinical Hospital
Oczapowskiego 2 Olsztyn, Warminsko-Mazurskie POLAND 10719
140 beds
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2. The Regional Specialist Hospital in Olsztyn ( in Polish-Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny w Olsztynie) Zolnierska 18 10561 Olsztyn, Poland
479 beds
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3. The Regional Specialist Children's Hospital in Olsztyn ( in Polish-Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny Dzieciecy w Olsztynie) Zolnierska 18a 10561 Olsztyn, Poland
265 beds
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4. The Regional Specialist Children's Hospital in Olsztyn ( in Polish-Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny Dzieciecy w Olsztynie) Zolnierska 18a 10561 Olsztyn, Poland
269 beds
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5.The Regional Psychatric Hospital i n Olsztyn (Wojewodzki Zespol Lecznictwa Psychiatrycznego w Olsztynie) al. Wojska Polskiego 35 10228 Olsztyn, Poland
381 beds
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6. The Ministry of Interior Health Care Center with the Warmia and Mazury Oncology Center in Olsztyn
(Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnętrznych z Warmińsko – Mazurskim Centrum Onkologii w Olsztynie) Al.Wojska Plskiego 37
10228 Olsztyn, Poland
344 beds
Advantage of University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
˙The Student Parliament of the Republic of Poland awarded UWM the title of a student-friendly university twice already. Olsztyn is famous for which has good atmosphere and high achievement in education. The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (UWM) was founded on 1999. Combine 50 years high quality teacher training and 450 years experience of Theological Seminary. There are 16 departments, such as medicine, law, economics, humanities, pedagogy, theology, fine arts, veterinary medicine, agriculture, engineering, biology, mathematics etc.
˙Attending UWM's School of Medicine is attractive, with low cost but high quality of teaching and training, also offers a pleasant, friendly and diverse cultural of learning environment.
˙UWM is one of the best medical university in Poland, it also won the International Anatomy Competition “Golden Scapula” on 2012.
˙Won the award “Physicians Final Examination Results” top one for the year 2015.
˙Won the award “Physicians Final Examination Results” number 4 for the year 2014
Entrance Exam Requirement
Application conditions
˙According to Physicians Final Examination (LEK) , UWM is number 4 of 12 medical university in Poland. There are 48 students from UWM of total 2914 candidates.
The school list is below:
Top1, Medical University of Warsaw
Second, Poznan University of Medical Sciences
Third, Jagiellonian University Medical College
Forth, Advantage of University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, the passing rate is 95.8%, 6MD start from year 2008.
˙UMW also get accredited from those Organization
1. Polish Accreditation Committee
2. Accreditation Committee For Polish University Medical Schools
3. World Health Organization
4. Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER)
5. National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation (NCFMEA)
6. United Arab Emirates Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research
Application conditions
Entrance exam is around the end of August every year atProf. Rowinski Lecture Hall, University Clinical Hospital, al. Warszawska 30
How to apply:
Entrance exam is around the end of August every year at Prof. Rowinski Lecture Hall, University Clinical Hospital, al. Warszawska 30.
Documents required from candidates before the exam
1. Copy of passport
2. Application form (fill in online)
3. High school graduation certificate (English version)
4. IELTS 6.5 or TOFEL 80
5. Application fee 85PLN
*Must apply all the documents before entrance exam, or the examination won’t be available
The scope of the examination are Biology, Physics, and Chemistry. Take the best of two score of three.
Apply deadline is 24th of August 2017
Please contact Lin’s Int’L Education Management Group of Companies to see more detail if you hold :
1.IB or EB Diploma,
2.MCAT, GAMSAT, UKCAT
Preparing documents after passed the exam
1.health examination form (School form)
2.Certificate of birth ( English version)
3.Digital photos (File JPG, 300 x 375 pixels, over 300 dpi)
4.4 photos (35 X 45 mm)
5.Insurance
6.Copy of student visa
Tuition fee
| First year | 48 000 PLN |
| Second year | 46 000 PLN |
| Third year | 46 000 PLN |
| Forth year | 46 000 PLN |
| Fifth year | 46 000 PLN |
| Sixth year | 46 000 PLN |
The bank account:
Account name: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
School Address: ul. Oczapowskiego 210-957 Olsztyn, POLAND
Bank name: BANK HANDLOWY w Warszawie
Bank Address : ul. Senatorska 1600-923 Warszawa, POLAND
Account number: PL 66 1030 1218 0000 0000 9113 3326
SWIFT: CITIPLPX
Please noted before you transfer :
Please noted student’s name and what purpose, for example Admission fee ,Tuition fee, Orientation week fee or Pre-Uni-Study course fee.
Admission week charge and the information.:
25th to 30th of September 2016 is 1500PLN, please noted the fee is not include Accommodation fee. The charge include navigation Olsztyn city and campus, to introduce Anatomy and Polish courses, school departments related to location and to understand school rules, to purchase books and doctor gown, Issuing student ID card, online book guide, the opening ceremony , in the end of this session will have an introduce of you to meet your new study partners
Pre medical course
Students life
Pre medical course
IGSM(International Gateway to Science and Medicine Program)
Conditions：
-Who has IELTS 6.5 want to prepare these subjects below
-Who has MD admission requirements but IELTS score below 6.5
Preparing documents：
-Application form
http://www.uwm.edu.pl/wnm/afpm/form.php
-Copy of passport
-6.5 IELTS score
-High school graduation certificate (English version)
-scholarship letter from KASP (If you have one)
Please fill in and sign, then scan all the documents, email to studyingmedicine@gmail.com
Pre medical course subjects：
-physics,
-chemistry,
-biology,
-Anatomy, Histology, Physiology
Introduction:：
90 hours of teaching Polish class,learning in small classes, also participation cultural activities.
Time table of class：
- 9 months courses: Start at beginning of October.
- 6 months Intensive courses: Start at beginning of April
After pre medical course, you need to pass IELTS 6.5 and reach 6MD admission Qualification
In the campus there are 188 scientific societies and student organizations, university radio station (Radio UWM FM), television (TV Kortowo) and magazines, the Kortowo Folklore Song and Dance Troupe, famous volleyball team AZS UWM and many others. All this constitutes a great social and cultural environment to interact and to acquire experience by meeting people from various fields of knowledge and from different countries.
Student Council:
Student Council of the University is a body that represents over 30.000 of the UWM students. It initiates and conducts a big number of social, scientific and cultural projects. Through the implementation of various projects it spreads an idea of democracy and self-government as well as teaches responsibility for decisions. The most important events organized by the Student Council are Kortowiada festival and BELFER Contest, which is a competition for the most popular teacher of the year, held annually since 2005.
AIESEC:
AIESEC is one the biggest international organization which for ten years gives an opportunity to discover and develop potential among students through international placements, big number of conferences, workshops and project which all together creates global educational environment. AISEC helps students to develop entrepreneurship, social responsibility as well as teaches team work and project management. Most of foreign incoming students keenly take a part in activities organized by AISEC combining professional experience with entertainment.
