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CAMPUS

There is more to studying at the Medical University of Bialystok than mere acquisition of knowledge, academic traditions, eminent scholars or well-designed and stimulating classes. Before all, it means aunique atmosphere of the place, both beautiful and ecological, meeting new people and making new friends.

Our campus, with its rich social and academic life enjoyed by the academic community, is an important asset encouraging prospective students to choose our school.

EDUCATION

Students from all over the country and abroad study at our University. Admission is by entrance examination multiple choice test. Candidates can choose from a range of courses offered by the Medical Faculty with the Dentistry Division, Nursing Division, Physiotherapy and Rescue Medicine, or the Faculty of Pharmacy with the Laboratory Medicine Division and Public Health Division. The school consists of several modern buildings housing the departments of basic and clinical sciences, whose diagnostic, therapeutic and scientific equipment has been modernized or supplemented recently.

The total number of students is

2 500, taught by 600 academic teachers representing nearly all medical and pharmaceutical disciplines.
A wide scheme of international co-operation has been developed lately, including not only scientific research but implementing new teaching models as well.

DORMITORIES

On campus accommodation for out-of-Bialystok students is provided in two dormitories, which allows for efficient studying as time is not wasted on commuting. Other facilities, such as cinemas, philharmonic hall, picturesque Branicki park, sports facilities, skating rink, stadium, pubs and clubs, are all within walking distance, which is a distinctive feature of our university among others in Poland.

Dormitory #1 was built in 1953. Its total floor area is 6489 sq m. It holds 42 double rooms and 91 rooms for three persons, which gives a total of 357 beds. In the same building, there are also the Sports Office, "Radiosupel", "Co Nie Co" Club, Students' Clinic and a canteen.

Dormitory #2 consists of two ten-storey buildings connected by a one-storey passageway. The floor area equals 9 640 sq m (60 double rooms, 100 rooms for three persons)

BOARDING

On campus boarding is offered by a variety of places, of which the student canteen located in Dormitory #1 is most frequently visited. Equally tasty meals are served in the Children's Teaching Hospital. In addition, one can find within easy distance numerous fast food bars selling meals on the spot or doing deliveries at reasonable prices.

Typical Polish cuisine abounds in potato and meat dishes, and salads, most of which contain cabbage as their main ingredient. Game consumption is typical of the Bialystok region as vast woodlands co-exist here with the hunting traditions of our ancestors.

HOSPITALS

The Teaching Hospital of the Medical University of Bialystok began admitting patients on 15th December 1962.

The hospital, fully equipped with state-of-the-art technology, has become a teaching and research centre for the university departments. In addition, it offers a wide variety of health services, ranging from simple procedures to highly specialized ones, financed by the Ministry of Health and Social Care.

The hospital is the largest health care setting in the north-eastern region. Holding 800 beds, it is capable of providing medical care for 24 000 in-patients yearly. Also, out-patient and day treatment is carried out there.

The modern and well equipped Operating Suite fulfills the needs of the operativesection of thehospital. Similar suites are found in the Cardiosurgical Department /set up in 1998/, where, among others, coronary heart disease procedures are performed /aortic-coronary by-passes/; in the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and in the Gynaecological-Maternity Department. Our hospital is the only kidney transplantation centre in the entire region, operations being carried out by specialists from the Angiosurgery and Transplantation Department.

The Children's Teaching Hospital is the second biggest hospital in the city. Its most modern equipment and professional teaching staff make up an excellent teaching base for medical students. About 10 000 sick children are hospitalized here yearly. Another 120 000 are given consultations in out-patient departments.

Departments of clinical sciences and research centres are additionallylocated in the Regional Oncological Centre, the Regional Public Hospitaland the State Psychiatric Hospital.

BRANICKIS PALACE AND PARK

The Medical University of Bialystok is located in the old part of the city, in the former residence of the Branicki family. It is in the main building of a palace-garden arrangement, consisting of the Entrance Gate, Arsenal and Guest House.

The palace courtyard is surrounded by a decorated wall with two sculptures of Hercules. The palace, erected in Baroque style, is made up of the main corpus and two side wings. The roof is covered up by an attic. Over the central break of the façade there is a tympanum presenting the Branickis coat of arms the Griffon. Above it, there is a sculpture of the so-called Atlas Group. The garden elevation has two side breaks, while the central part is composed of a terrace supported by columns. The interior of the palace is well worth visiting, particularly the freshly renovated ballroom, chapel and the staircase with sculptures of Atlas.

The south-western part of the palace compound is composed of a French style park, whose main alley is concluded with a gate and sculptures of the Sphynx. Other buildings of the compound are: the Arsenal / built in 1755, now housing the Art Exhibition Bureau and a coffee bar /, the Orangery and Italian and Toscan Pavillions from the middle of the 18th c.

The Branickis' Park, a most wonderful spot in the city, is a place where medical students like to meet to get relaxed and regain forces to be able to return to discovering secrets of medicine in the privacy of reading rooms.

LIBRARY

The Main Library of the Medical University of Bialystok, situated in the Branicki Palace,wasestablished in June 1950.

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It is engaged in three basic activities: scientific research, teaching students and providing library services. It is currently the biggest medical library in the north-east of Poland, servicing the Podlasie and Warmia-Mazuria provinces.

The library stores, describes scientifically and allows access to books, newspapers, magazines and special collections to the academic community and general public. Books can be borrowed from the lending library, or read on the premises in the students` reading room .

The Information Division provides library users with assistance in searching required literature or bibliographic sources. First year students undergo a session of instruction on how to use the library.

Library resources cover the following areas: medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, medical analytics, public health, nursing, dietetics and physiotherapy, as well as related disciplines: biology, biochemistry, physics, sociology, pedagogy. Besides books, library users have access to scientific and popular medical periodicals, daily magazines and local, regional and national publications. All this is supplemented with old prints.

The library is mainly visited by students and academic teachers, health care workers from the Podlasie province, individual readers and scientific institutions from all over the country / a total of 3 639 registered users /. The library possesses 133 000 volumes, 82 111 periodicals, and 21 071 special items such as: manuscripts, microfilms, audiovisual materials, electronic documents. Subscriptions are made for 606 periodicals, of which 129 are foreign. Most of the foreign titles are available both on-line in the school web and in their printed versions. The library carries out an exchange scheme with 71 Polish and foreign institutions, which includes 62 periodicals and 351 compact volumes. About 11 000 orders are accomplished through the lending interlibrary each year.

Since 1996, information about the library and its resources has been available on the Internet. The on-line catalogue is updated and developed within the integrated library system ALEPH 330.

The library is computerized and equipped with copying devices. Modern techniques of disseminating and distributing electronic information are continually introduced.