Jagiellonian University in Kraków (UJ) teaches Medicine in English at the School of Medicine in English, part of the Faculty of Medicine of UJ Collegium Medicum – a six-year, full-time, long-cycle Master's programme leading to the professional title of physician (lekarz). It is meant for students who already speak English well enough to study in it and want a medical degree recognised internationally.
The curriculum follows both Polish and European teaching standards. In years one to three you study the theoretical medical disciplines: normal anatomy, biology with embryology, histology with cytophysiology, general and organic chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, biophysics, microbiology, immunology, genetics, pathomorphology, pathophysiology and pharmacology.
From year four to year six you move on to the core clinical disciplines – among them internal medicine, surgery, paediatrics with paediatric surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics and traumatology, psychiatry, neurology with neurosurgery, ophthalmology, laryngology and infectious diseases – as well as radiology, emergency medicine, public health, nuclear medicine, clinical and environmental toxicology, and occupational medicine.
Taught entirely in English, with Polish where it matters: alongside the English-language programme you take a specialised Polish language course that prepares you to communicate with patients.
Graduates receive the diploma and professional title of physician, recognised internationally. Many go on to work and train in Norway, Canada, the United Kingdom and the USA. The programme prepares you to work in:
Did you know? The School of Medicine in English has been part of UJ since 1994, and its students come from five continents – among others from the USA, Canada and Norway.
As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme pages at studia.uj.edu.pl.
