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Medical University of Gdansk
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Gdansk, Poland

Contact details

Address

M. Skłodowskiej-Curie 3a

80-210 Gdansk, Poland

Director/Dean

Lukasz Balwicki

assistant professor

Anna Tyranska-Fobke

About institution

The Department is located at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Medical University of Gdansk (GUMed). The Department conducts scientific and didactic activities in the field of public health. The Department organises public health classes for the majority of faculties conducted at the University, including medicine, dentistry, nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, paramedicine, electroradiology, dietetics, as well as English-language faculties. The Department is also the initiator and creator of the public health courses (undergraduate and postgraduate studies), whose students learn about the full spectrum of topics covered by public health. The Department also runs highly acclaimed short public health courses for medical doctors and dentists doing their specialization training. The Department also holds accreditation for public health residency training for medical doctors.

The department has a highly qualified research and teaching staff. The Department's team currently consists of 18 employees, including 13 academic teachers (2 university professors, 8 assistant professors, 3 assistants), 4 of whom are academic tutors, as well as 2 doctoral students and 2 medical residents in the course of specialization in public health. Academic staff continuously improve their competences through participation in further education courses offered at the University, as well as in external courses, e.g. on modern teaching methods and tutoring.