Medical University of Warsaw

The Medical University of Warsaw (MUW) is one of Poland’s leading universities. Founded in 1809, it has operated as a monoprofile medical university since 1949. Today, it offers 16 undergraduate and graduate programmes across the faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Health Sciences.

The medical professions taught at MUW include doctors, pharmacists, dentists, physiotherapists, radiologists, nurses, midwives, paramedics, speech therapists, audiologists, dietitians, and healthcare managers. All programmes are delivered by outstanding medical professionals using modern teaching methods in line with European quality assurance standards. MUW graduates are highly qualified healthcare professionals, ready to practise anywhere in the world. Medicine and Dentistry are also taught in English. In addition, the University includes a Centre for Postgraduate Studies and a Doctoral School.

MUW operates Poland’s largest University Clinical Centre and several teaching hospitals (Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne), comprising clinics in two general hospitals and a paediatric hospital, as well as specialist maternity and ophthalmology hospitals. Advanced procedures using modern medical and biomedical technologies and state-of-the-art equipment are performed at the University’s clinics. The University Clinical Centre is the largest transplantation hub in Poland, performing transplants of all vascularised organs, bone marrow, and corneas.

The University’s scientific departments conduct basic, pre-clinical, and clinical research. The latest scientific achievements and cutting-edge technological solutions are applied in numerous research laboratories at MUW.