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The five year M.A. program in Pharmacy is designed for High School & College Graduates who have taken Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

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About the Pharmacy Department at PUMS:

In 1919, soon after Poznañ University had been founded, the Pharmacy Department was established. At first, this academic school was affiliated
as the Division at the Faculty of Philosophy and from 1925 it was attached to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

The founder and the head of the Division was Konstanty Hrynakowski - professor of chemistry, well known for his achievements in thermal analysis of drugs. He was a proponent of modern, extensive education of pharmacists based on chemistry. The study curriculum included, among other things, advanced mathematics, the technology of medicaments, pharmacodynamics. Between the two World Wars, the following Chairs were set up: the Chair of Applied Pharmacy, the Chair of Pharmcognosy, the Chair of Botany and Medicinal Plants and the Chair of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. In the period of 1930 - 1939 as many as 886 students graduated from the Division of Pharmacy in Poznañ. During the Second World War pharmacy study was pursued at underground university in Warsaw, Cracow, Kielce and Czêstochowa. 80% of pharmaceutical property was destroyed resulting from the Second World War repercussion.

Despite the range of destruction, already in May 1945, classes were resumed. In 1947, the former Division of Pharmacy was transformed into an
independent Faculty. Three years later, the Faculty of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Medicine, including Division of Dentistry, were detached from the main University and established as an independent school. In 1979 the Division of Laboratory Medicine and in 1995 the Section of Postgraduate Education were set up and attached to the Faculty of Pharmacy. Today the Faculty of Pharmacy of Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznañ is one of the most respected and largest institutions of pharmacy research and learning in Poland. It comprises 15 Chairs and 16 Departments. The Faculty of Pharmacy employs over 35 full professors and associated pro-fessors and about 50 Ph.D. researches engaged in the research in almost all fields of modern pharmacy. The Faculty researches cooperate with the number of partners from the research centers and universities in Europe and North America. This includes joint research projects and visits of research fellows and visiting professors.

The Faculty important activity is the teaching of pharmacy and laboratory medicine on the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Since 1950 over 5,600 pharmacists, including those who graduated from laboratory medicine completed their studies at the Faculty of Pharmacy; and more than 300 have been conferred the Ph.D. degree. At present, about 730 students study pharmacy and about 150 students study laboratory medicine.

Since 1970 ceremonies to renew a Master's diploma after 50 years have been organized to strengthen the bond between alumni and the mother Faculty.

The Faculty of Pharmacy at Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznañ offers programs in pharmacy and laboratory medicine. The curriculum of interdisciplinary 5-year studies embraces basic, general and professional courses and culminates with Master degree.

The education of students of pharmacy and laboratory medicine is based on the European Credit Transfer System.