EUROPEAN MEDICAL EDUCATION: POLISH VARIANT

Abstract

ERASMUS mobility program is one of the largest international student exchange programs in the world which provided an opportunity to experience semester studies in European universities for more than 3 million students since the start of its functioning. Annually students of different European either medical or non-medical universities have an opportunity to participate in this program and receive a unique chance to get integrated into another educational system, work on own scientific ideas, develop personal professional networking, travel and learn about the life, traditions, culture of another country. This article describes the key features of educational process, scientific opportunities and student leisure in Wroclaw Medical University (Poland) through the perspective of participation in Erasmus Exchange Program. The structure and peculiarities of the practical classes and lectures in clinical departments, the loading of the students for one teacher, evaluation and control of student’s knowledge during practical classes and also in the end of academic semester, possibility to choose elective courses, the term “rector’s hours” are analyzed and described in this article. Since February 18, 2015 in Wroclaw Medical University there is a functioning internal system of the evaluation of quality of university education SONA which oversees standar­dized questionnaire for the students with the further transfer of them into educational department of university with the goal of analysis and further development of schemes for improvement of medical education. The student’s association of university, its structure, goals and peculiarities of its functioning, scientific journals with various degrees of citation where different scientists from all over the world publish their works is also described in the article.