Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University

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Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
Львiвський Національний Медичний Унiверситет iм. Данила Галицького

Latin: Universitatis Medicinalis Leopoliensis
Established: November 16, 1784
Type: Public
Rector: Borys Zimenkovsky
Students: 5,100
Location: Flag of UkraineLviv, Ukraine
Website: www.meduniv.lviv.ua

Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University (Latin: Universitatis Medicinalis Leopoliensis), (Ukrainian: Львiвський Національний Медичний Унiверситет iм. Данила Галицького), formerly known as Lvov State Medical Institute, earlier - Faculty of Medicine of the John Casimir University, and before that Faculty of Medicine of the Francis I University, is one of the oldest and biggest medical universities in Ukraine.

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[edit] History

The building of the University.
The building of the University.

The history of Lviv medical university goes back to 1661, when on the 20th of January Jesuit Collegium in Lviv by the privilege of Polish King John II Casimir acquired the status of Academy. It consisted of four departments and was awarded the title of the University. However, until the break-up of the University in 1773 the full-blown medical department was not established.

On the 16th of November 1784 according to the privilege of the Austrian emperor Joseph II, signed on 21 October 1784, Lviv University consisting of four faculties – theology, philosophy, law and medicine – was revived. Since then Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University has started counting its age.

Taking into account state and international recognition of University activity, great contribution to the development of national education and science, Danylo Halytskyi Lviv State Medical University was conferred the status of National Medical University on the 21st of August 2003 by the President’s decree #872/2003,[1]

[edit] Faculties

  • Medical faculty No.1
  • Medical faculty No.2
  • Faculty of dentistry
  • Faculty of pharmacy
  • Faculty of distance education
  • Faculty of postgraduate education

[edit] Notable students

  • Tadeusz Bętkowski, Polish surgeon

[edit] Notable professors

  • Henryk Hilarowicz, Polish physician
  • Stanisław Ruff, Polish surgeon
  • Władysław Szymonowicz, Polish histologist and embryologist

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ (Ukrainian) [1].

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