Transcript Wstaw tytułu prezentacji

WELCOME MEETING FOR
STUDENTS OF 1ST YEAR
2013/2014
WROCŁAW, 30th SEPTEMBER 2013
Wroclaw Medical University
• HISTORY
• The first hospital was founded in Wrocław in
the 13th century
• Medicine had been taught at the University
from 1811 and this tradition has been
continued after World War II
• In 1950, the Medical Academy consisted of
two faculties: the Faculty of Medicine with a
Division of Dentistry and the Faculty of
Pharmacy with a Medical Laboratory
Diagnostics Division
Wroclaw Medical University
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5 FACULTIES:
Medicine
Dentistry
Pharmacy
Health’s sciences
Postgraduate education
English Division
• ENGLISH DIVISION
• The English Division was established within
the Faculty of Medicine in 2003
• Two faculties: Medicine and Dentistry
• The teaching is conducted in English and
the program is identical to that in Polish
and adapted to the common European
program
• Currently almost 500 students
English Division
Head of English Division
Andrzej
Hendrich,PhD,Assoc.Prof.
Vice Dean for Foreign
Students
English Division
Vice-Dean for Faculty of
Dentistry
Wiesław Kurlej, DDS, PhD
English Division
Tutor of the first year of
Medicine:
dr Zygmunt Domagała
Tutor of the first year of
Dentistry:
dr Marek Syrycki
English Division
Faculty of Medicine Office
Staff:
Monika Uzar
Katarzyna Kołodziejczyk
Agnieszka Ziomko
Magdalena Kretowicz
English Division
Faculty of Dentistry Office
Staff:
Jan Wojna
Aleksandra Jania
Academic Regulations
Academic Regulations
(the most important
fragments)
Andrzej Hendrich, Assoc. Prof.
Vice Dean for Foreign Students
Academic Regulations
§ 12
1. The didactic classes are conducted, in the form of
lectures, classes and seminars.
2. The participation in didactic classes by the
student is mandatory.
3. The student may within one academic year be
absent in about 10% of classes that are
mandatory in a given subject without justifying it
and without the necessity to make up for them.
Each subsequent absence in classes with the
exception of sections 4 and 5 requires the
justification and making up for the classes
immediately after the cause of absence ceases to
exit.
Academic Regulations
§ 24
1. The credit periods in the academic year are the
winter and summer semesters.
2. The conditions for obtaining credit by the
semester/years students and obtaining credit for the
next semester/year are:
a) obtaining credits from all didactic classes
(including the optional subjects and professional
internships),
b) obtaining positive grades from all exams foreseen in
the studies plan of a given year and levelling of all
potential programme differences,
c) obtaining the required number of ECTS points
foreseen in the studies plan in a given
semester/year.
Academic Regulations
§ 24 (cont.)
3. A subject terminates with an exam or credit with
a grade or without the grade.
4. Credit of the winter semester should be effected
not later than at the end of the winter semester,
and crediting the year (also the summer
semester) should be effected not later than
September 30. In justified cases the dean can set
out a different date.
5. In the course of each credit or examination the
student is obliged to present an index and a chart
of periodic achievements, into which the persons
conducting the exam or credit examination enter
credit or the grade along with the date
confirming it with a signature.
Academic Regulations
1.
a)
b)
2.
§ 25
In case when the student does not get the credit
for a semester/year, the student can apply for:
conditional credit for the semester or academic
year - § 33,
consent to repeating the semester/year - § 34.
After obtaining all entries from credits and exams
provided for by the studies plan, the student has
the duty to file to the dean's office the student
credit book and chart of periodic student's
achievements within the terms specified in § 24
section 4 or resulting from individual
requirements of the dean.
Academic Regulations
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b)
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a)
b)
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§ 33
The conditional credit is a permission issued by the dean at
the request of the student to initiate studies in a higher
semester/year with the simultaneous student's obligation to
fulfil the conditions necessary to complete a given
semester/year.
A student who:
did not pass max. two subjects,
has programme divergences to make up for,
can seek to obtain conditional credit.
Obtaining the conditional credit is impossible if:
the student did not pass more than two subjects,
lack of credit or lack of the passed exam regarding the
subject which the student did not complete once before.
In cases of not-fulfilling by the student the obligations
resulting from the conditional credit the dean can issue a
decision on repeating the semester/year or removing the
student from the student list.
Academic Regulations
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§ 34
The dean, at the request of the student, can express consent
to repeat the year/semester in the case of:
a) not admitting to the exam session,
b) not completing the semester/year.
The student can obtain an agreement to repeat a
year/semester, not more than twice during the entire period
of studies - in the case of unified MA studies, and not more
than once - in the case of bachelor’s programme (BA) and
master’s programme (MA), unless the cause for not granting
credit in a subject was a lasting sickness or other ill-fated
event.
The student who obtained the consent to repeat the
semester/year is obliged to cover the programme differences
resulting from the studies plan.
The student who repeats the semester/year is exempted from
the subjects in which he/she obtained credit, if the
programme of the subject was not altered.
Academic Regulations
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2.
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6.
§ 35
The student can obtain the agreement for leave e.g. in the
case of occurrence of important circumstances rendering
it impossible for him to take part in classes.
Leave is granted by the dean on the basis of the
documented application filed by the student.
The application mentioned in point 2 should be filed to
the dean not later than within 14 days from the
occurrence of the circumstances justifying the request.
The leave can be granted for the period of one semester
(short term leave) or academic year (long term leave).
The decision to grant leave is confirmed by the dean with
a signature in the student record book and the chart of
periodic student achievements.
In the entire period of studies the student can obtain
leave twice unless the cause of the leave is a long term
sickness or exceptionally important life circumstances.
Academic Regulations
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3.
§ 27
The basis for obtaining credit in the subject is attendance during
classes and obtaining positive grades from partial work included
in a given subject. The confirmation of the credit is the entry in
the student credit book and in the chart of periodic student's
achievements made by the academic teacher teaching the
subject/responsible for the subject.
§ 28
The dean admits to the exam session the student on the
condition that he completed within the deadline the classes of all
subjects in a given semester.
Credit for a subject which terminates with an exam is done on
the basis of all credits of all forms of classes conducted within
this subject and a positive grade from the exam.
On the student's application the dean can temporarily permit
him to take part in the examination session, if he did not
complete within the deadline classes from no more than two
subjects.
Academic Regulations
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5.
§ 28 (cont.)
If the student does not obtain positive grades from the
required partial work he/she has the right to take an exam
from the total of material included in the programme of
this subject. The deadline of this exam should be
established not later than two days before the planned
exam date in that subject.
In the case of not passing the examination mentioned in
section 4, the student is not admitted to take an exam in
the first term from the subject terminating in an exam.
Academic Regulations
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§ 28 (cont.)
The student who was not admitted to the first term of the
exam has the right to take the preliminary examination
allowing him to take the first term examination, however,
not later than before the start of the re-sit session. After
passing the preliminary examination the student may take
the first term re-sit examination. In the case of not
passing the preliminary examination the student cannot
obtain the credit in that subject.
In case of not passing the examination specified in
section 4, from the subject that does not terminate with
an examination the dean can conditionally allow the
student to enter the session and grant permission for a
conditional entry for the next semester, setting out the
term of passing the subject.
Health & Safety
Before beginning to work with a new
chemical reagent each student is obliged to
make himself acquainted with a description
chart of a given reagent provided by the
supplier or producer. In case of emergency
one should strictly stick to the regulations
provided in the description chart of a given
substance or to other available instructions
and procedures.
Health & Safety
Before any work which may create a possible
contact with biological stuff each student is
obliged to get acquainted with the Rector’s
Regulation No. 3/XIV R/2010 on “Procedures
of behaving after occupational exposure to
the hazard of infection by HIV, HBV or HCV
viruses”.
Health & Safety
Infection risk is produced by: breaking the
continuity of skin in effect of stitching,
scratching, cutting, etc., splashing the
mucosa (oral cavity, conjunctiva, vestibule of
the nose), skin contact with large amount of
contaminated material. Infections can result
from a contact with: blood, systemic fluids,
vaginal secretion, semen.
Health & Safety
Each occupational exposure can be
dangerous and requires evaluation
of
the grade of infection risk.
Preventive
action taken timely can prevent
the
risk of infection.
Health & Safety
According to the
REGULATION OF THE MINISTER OF
SCIENCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION
OF 5TH JULY 2007
ON HYGIENE AND OCCUPATIONAL
SAFETY IN INSTITUTIONS OF
HIGHER EDUCATION
(Official Journal of Laws, No.128, item 897)
Health & Safety
The Rector is obliged to:
• organize trainings in the field of
hygiene and occupational safety
for all students who commence
their studies at the university,
Health & Safety
• maintain all facilities, equipment and
recreation and sport appliances belonging to
the university in a condition ensuring their
safe and hygienic use. If the site designed
for classes or the condition of equipment
prove to create a danger for students’ safety,
the Rector is obliged not to allow to
commence the classes, prohibit their
continuation or define the methods and
procedures ensuring their safe realization.
Health & Safety
• make sure that students who will work in
laboratories or in specialized workshops
have been properly instructed regarding the
rules and regulations of occupational health
and safety, in particular:
- condition of safe use of machines and
other devices,
- handling of dangerous and harmful
substances,
- a proper use of individual protective
equipment,
- procedures in case of emergency including
first aid care.
Health & Safety
OBLIGATIONS OF STUDENTS
• Know the rules and principles of
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)
binding for students on the premises of the
university
• Take part in trainings and courses on OHS
• Take care of individual protective outfit and
use it properly
• Keep order in place of instruction and
student dorm
• Abide by the fire protection rules
Health & Safety
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Immediately inform the teacher about
incidents during classes and warn other
persons about any risks
Should the conditions during classes do
not conform to OHS and fire protection
rules or create a direct danger to health
and life of students or other persons, the
student has the right to refuse to take part
in classes, immediately informing the
teacher about his/her observation
Health certificate
• All students are obliged to possess a valid
health certificate and deliver it to ED office
until 31st of October2013. The medical
examination should be done in the
outpatient clinic by occupational physician
at the address:
Centrum Medyczne Medrun
Krasińskiego Street 9
• Phone No. for registration and information:
0 801 462 988
Please fill in your referral
„SKIEROWANIE” now
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On referral please write:
…YOUR NAME AND SURNAME…
as (imię i nazwisko)
…..YOUR DATE OF BIRTH……….
as (data urodzenia)
How to complete index
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UNIWERSYTET MEDYCZNY im. PIASTÓW ŚLĄSKICH WE WROCŁAWIU
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Imię i nazwisko………YOUR NAME AND SURNAME....................…………………….
Rok studiów……YEAR OF STUDIES….Rok akademicki…..ACADEMIC YEAR……
Nazwisko
wykładającego
Nazwa przedmiotu
Liczba godzin
HOURS
NAME AND
SURNAME OF A
TEACHER
(see curriculum)
SUBJECT
(see curriculum)
Wykłady
HOURS OF
LECTURES
ćwiczenia
HOURS OF
CLASSES
Payment
The deadline for the payment can be prolonged for one
month, but interest will be calculated for the prolonged
period.
Tuition fee can be divided into:
•annual instalment – one payment before academic year
till the 15th of September
•semester instalments – two payments before winter
semester till the 15th of September and till the 15th of
February
For paying after the deadline, there is interest calculated
at the end of academic year.
Payment
The request form for extension of the deadline for payment
of the fee or division of the fee is in Study regulation on our
website.
of the deadline for payment of the fee or division of the fee
is in Study regulation on our website.
Payment
Tuition fee should be transferred to individual
number of account, which is given in Certification of
Enrolment and agreement.
Uniwersytet Medyczny we Wrocławiu
address: Pasteura 1, 50-367 Wrocław, Poland
BANK ZACHODNI WBK SA 35 ODDZIAŁ WROCŁAW
PL XX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
SWIFT code: KRDBPLPW
Payment
The title of the bank transfer should
include:
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name
surname
faculty e. g. medicine, dentistry
the title of the payment e. g. the
first semester, the first year
NOSTRIFICATION
Wrocław, 30 September 2013
Nostrification
• High School Certificates
According to the REGULATION OF THE
POLISH MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND
SCIENCE of 6th April, 2006, on the
Nostrification of School Certificates and
Maturity Certificates Obtained Abroad
each student is obliged to obtain the
recognition of the secondary school
certificate (so called “nostrification”)
before the end of the first semester of
studies.
Nostrification
• In order to complete the
procedure of nostrification a
student has to submit the
following documents to the
Regional Educational
Superintendents’ Office of Lower
Silesia (Dolnośląskie Kuratorium
Oświaty, Pl. Powstańców
Warszawy 1, 50-951 WROCŁAW)
Nostrification
• Application for nostrification (can be filled in at ED
Office).
• Original high school diploma presenting the course
of education (i.e. list of subjects, grades obtained and
number of hours in each subject). The certificate
must be legalized or provided with an apostille (more
information on www.hcch.net ). In exceptional cases
a copy can be submitted but such copy must be
legally confirmed by a notary office
for the
conformity with original document, and the original
must be shown when submitting the documents.
Confirmations done by schools or other institutions
will be not accepted.
NOSTRIFICATION (cont.)
• A written confirmation from an authorized institution
in the country, where the school certificate has been
issued, stating that this certificate entitles its owner
to apply for studies at university level to all
universities in this country (unless such statement is
included in the certificate).
• Translations of the all the above mentioned
documents into Polish language confirmed or done
by a sworn translator which has been acknowledged
by the Polish Ministry of Justice (a list of translation
offices with addresses is available on the website
www.ms.gov.pl ).
Nostrification
• A confirmation of registration for temporary stay in the
region of Lower Silesia or a declaration that a student is
not registered under any address in Poland (this can also
be done at ED Office).
• A declaration that this school certificate had not been
submitted for nostrification in any other Regional
Educational Superintendents’ Office in Poland (can be
filled in at ED Office).
• Photocopy of the passport or other document with a photo,
confirming the identity of its owner.
Students holding IB or EB high school diplomas do not
have to
submit them for nostrification.
Student’s ID card
• Each new student is obliged to
deliver his electronic
photographs in order to get a
student’s ID card.
• - in size of 300 x 375 pixels,
• - in JPG format,
• - resolution - not less than 300 dpi,
• - max size of file with picture - 60 kb
Student’s ID card
NO PHOTO – NO ID
CARD!
Health Insurance
• HEALTH INSURANCE
• Students are recommended to
buy an insurance policy prior to
the arrival in Wrocław for a
period of 12 months or obtain it
at National Health Fund
(Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia)
Health Insurance
• Required documents:
• Valid Student's ID card
• Passport or Temporary Stay Card
• Confirmatiom from the University
student's office about the duration of
studies
Insurance
• INSURANCE
• Personal casualty insurance and
civil liability policy is necessary
• It will also include student
internships in Poland and abroad
• Insurance costs 50 PLN per year
plus extra for apprenticeship
(depending on a country)
Insurance
• Insurance is paid in English
Division office
• Student must report in which
country he plans to do
apprenticeship before summer
www.ed.umed.wroc.pl
Please visit English
Division
webside for current
information
www.ed.umed.wroc.pl
English Division
• OFFICE HOURS FOR ENGLISH
DIVISION STUDENTS:
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MONDAY - THURSDAY
10.00 – 14.00
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ON FRIDAYS OFFICE IS
CLOSED
11th October 2013
• Central inauguration of the
Academic Year 2013/2014
for Medical Universities
• starts at 11.00 in Congress
Center in Wrocław,
Wystawowa Street 1 (near
Centennial Hall)
• Formal outfit
25th October 2013
• Matriculation ceremony
• 25th October 2013 (Monday)
at 11:00 a.m. in the Lecture
Hall of Anatomy Department,
Chalubinskiego Street 6a
• Formal outfit
Thank you for your kind
attention!