Information for New Students

Wroclaw Medical University hereby has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in our Orientation Day for the new students.

The programme of the meeting is listed below and it includes the most important topics to be presented to you on the day.

Date and time: 28th September 2023 at 9.00 a.m

Venue: Department of Anatomy, Chalubinskiego 6a, Wroclaw, see on the map , gate.

Orientation Day – the schedule

1. The Dean's speech

2. The first year tutor's speech

3. Q&A

4. Important forms completion 

5. Student ID cards distribution 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: 

A) The Student Identity Card

The fee for the student identity card is 22 PLN. It should be paid to an individually generated bank account, the number of which can be found in the "Agreement on the conditions of payment for educational services and other payments related to higher education" (§ 4) by 31st October 2023.

B) The Medical Examinations

You are required to get two medical examinations done and the referral forms for the medical tests must be collected from the Dean's Office:

• The Medical Examination (free of charge).  Please find the list of the facilities attached at the bottom of this website.
• The Sanitary and Epidemiological Examination.

The Occupational Health Assessment may be completed free of charge at the medical centres provided by the local occupational health centre in Wroclaw: Dolnośląski Wojewódzki Ośrodek Medycyny Pracy in Wrocław. The original certificate from your medical test must be submitted to the Dean's Office, English Division by 27th October 2023.

Please note that it is not the same certificate which was required at the recruitment process and that it must be performed in Poland.

The Sanitary and Epidemiological Examination should be performed at the microbiological laboratory: Laboratorium Mikrobiologii i Parazytologii Wojewódzkiej Stacji Sanitarno-Epidemiologicznej in Wrocław at Składowa 1/3.
The stool (faeces) sample should be submitted from Monday to Wednesday from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (Punkt Przyjmowania Próbek Oddziału Mikrobiologii WSSE in Wrocław, ul. Składowa 1/3).
 

Instructions: The three stool samples must be collected on three consecutive days by using the stool containers, which should be bought at a chemist's or collected from the Punkt Przyjmowania Próbek, Wrocław, ul. Składowa 1/3. Please note that it is important to get the 3 swabs with the Stuart, Cary-Blair or Amies transport medium. Otherwise, your samples will not be accepted by the lab.

All collected stool samples must be delivered together, no later than 72 hours after taking the first sample, to the Punkt Przyjmowania Próbek Oddziału Mikrobiologii WSSE in Wrocław (ul. Składowa 1/3).

The hard copy of the test result can be collected 5 days after the delivery of your samples at the Punkt Przyjmowania Próbek Oddziału Mikrobiologii WSSE in Wrocław (ul. Składowa 1/3) from: Monday to Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. or via the website after logging in with the login details received when ordering the test on the platform https://kl941.elaborat.marcel.pl/

Finally, the test results should be presented to the occupational physician and a paid medical certificate of the sanitary and epidemiological test should be obtained. The certificate should be submitted to the Dean's Office, English Division by 27th October 2023.

In addition to the above certificates, each student must also submit the certificate of the hepatitis vaccination by 27th October 2023 to the ED Dean's Office.

C) The Occupational Health and Safety and Fire Protection training and test

The training on the principles of the Occupational Health and Safety and Fire Protection will be conducted online and will last 4 hours and it will be held on 16th & 17th October 2023.

To take the test, you must first set up an e-mail address with the student.umw.edu.pl domain, because an activation link for the training will be sent to this e-mail address.

The training will end with a test that each student is required to take. To pass the test, 80% of the questions must be answered correctly. You can scroll through the test, return to the previous questions and slides.

Failure to pass the Health and Safety and Fire Protection training may result in removal from the list of students.

D) Please also read carefully the documents attached below as it will be required to confirm that you are familiar with those documents during the Orientation Day:

The study regulations 2023/2024 and The list of prerequisite courses referred to in Art. 43 sec. 3 (3) of Study Regulations of the Wroclaw Medical University effective from the academic year 2021/2022

The Resolution No. 282/XVI R/2021 of the Rector of Wroclaw Medical University of 1 October 2021 – Procedure of conduct after professional exposure to HIV, HBV, HCV infection

The Resolution No. 238/XVI R/2020 of the Rector of Wroclaw Medical University of 2 November 2020

The Resolution No. 35/XIII R/2005 of the Rector of Wroclaw Medical University in Wroclaw of 23 May 2005 - Regarding the addiction prevention.