List of the best Polish universities

Poznań University of Medical Sciences (Polish: Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu) founded in 1919 is a prominent Polish medical university, located in the city of Poznań in western Poland.

There are over 8,100 students enrolled in the University, including 1000 foreign students. Poznan University of Medical Sciences employs about 1400 academic staff, including 200 professors.

While advanced research at the University is carried out in virtually every field of modern medicine, its contribution is most widely recognized in such disciplines as immunology, endocrinology, oncology, nuclear medicine, anaesthesiology, surgery, nephrology, gynaecology and obstetrics (especially perinatology), ecology, parasitic and tropical diseases, AIDS, viral hepatitis, hematology, child oncology, cytophysiology and cytopathology, development of the central nervous system, immunology of skin diseases, clinical pharmacology, genetics, audiology, phoniatrics and optometry.

The major research topics in the Faculty of Pharmacy are the stability of drugs, pharmacokinetics and biochemistry, the synthesis and analysis of new therapeutic agents, phytochemistry, toxicology and pharmacology. The fields of research activity of the Faculty of Health Sciences are health promotion, nursing processes and standards in nursing activity.