Thread: Students at the University of Gdansk for English Division -- Help?

Hello,

I recently posted on this website about the premedical course. I'm from the United States, but living overseas in China. During Chinese New Year I took the opportunity to visit Poland for a week, in Gdansk. Despite the cold setbacks, I enjoyed it immensely, it being my first time in snow, as well as the first visit to a university in general. I'm making plans to apply to the premedical course seeing as despite I'm in the IB Programme, our administration has been nothing but a pig about it and alienating the IB students over the AP. Education in my high school has been insufficient. Now, I had emailed the administration office two weeks prior to arriving in Gdansk for a tour of the school and they did not return any news for such. As a result, I have visited the university, but I've seen only the outer shell, being unable to experience a day's worth of classes, lectures and Q&A's. I have no family in Poland, and no family in Europe in general. My family lives in the U.S. and in China, and as such, I will be pretty much alone with no family support structure. I also have no intentions of returning to the U.S. for education after my high school graduation. If anyone, in Gdansk, preferably the English Division programme, can help fill in the gaps about what this school can do for me, and how it will benefit me for becoming a doctor in Europe, I would appreciate immensely any information. I don't plan on taking the USMLE's but rather going over to practice in Germany, Sweden, Norway or Italy. By what I've read, there are mixed reviews on MUG, but mostly from personal perspectives on teachers, administration. I'm more interested in the kind of education I will be receiving, how it differs from other universities in Western Europe and the U.S., and what happens after graduation from the 6 year programme. I haven't heard stories about English Divison students after their graduation or what happened to them. If anyone can fill me in on this I'd appreciate it also.

Sorry about this long post, anything will be appreciated!

Originally Posted by natalia_kor

thank your for your quick reply. could you please kindly advise me if you know what other large hospital projects are planned to be constructed in Poland?.. I've found just two on internet - Poviat hospital in Żywiec University Hospital in Bialystok modernisation/ Thank you!!!

This is another new hospital of Jagiellonian. Depending on their website info, its planned to be completed this year:
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Actually I dont know directly whether this project is the same project that takes place in the website of Jagiellonian, but regarding that there is no newly developed hospital for Jagiellonian other than this, I assume that this must be that one..

Hey,
I am from Gdansk and from the English Division, I see that the original subject of this post went into the construction side of things. There is new airport terminal at Gdansk so that might be interesting for you.
I don't know about any new hospitals except CNM ( Center of Noninvasive Medicine). But I wanted to go back to the original subject.
This year is a year were there are going to be implemented new changes to the medical programs in all EU countries, and especially in Poland. All of the Polish Medical Schools prepared new program in accordance to the new law. It is hard to say how it is going to compare to the old one. So if you are thinking of starting med school now you will start in the new curriculum. As far as I know there will be major changes. What exactly I don't know, but both Polish and English Division will have to have exactly the same program. This is all done to better fit the EU regulations. It is hard to say how good it is going to be.
So far all the doctors from MUG that I know who decided to start practicing in Western Europe have had no problems finding jobs. MUG has a very good reputation in UK, Ireland, and extremely good rep in Sweden and Norway. Most our ED students come from Sweden. We have some students from Germany as well but it is rather small number. On the other hand we have a lot of research programs that are in cooperation with German Universities and Hospitals. I don't think that you would have a problem finding a job in Germany after finishing MUG. Germans are still thinking of Gdansk as a part of their history.
With our diploma you can go virtually to work anywhere in the EU, US and Canada. I have friends that graduated already and are working in UK, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, US, CA and so on and I haven't heard one of them complaining that the school they graduated from was bad or inadequate. Actually most of them said that being a student was fun, study hard and party harder, hehe. Now they say, work is a lot of responsibilities. If you have questions let me know. Cheers.