Accomplishment of the KUL on Capitol Hill in the USA

The Institute of Health Sciences of the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) has established close cooperation with the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States in the field of academic exchange and medical research, mainly in oncology.

Dr. Katarzyna Czarnek from the Institute of Health Sciences of the Catholic University of Lublin and Mr. Stanislaw Pisarski, the Rector's Representative for Strategy, opened the cooperation of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin with the MCW in the field of academic exchange and medical research, mainly in oncology.  - This opens completely new perspectives for our university, especially for its scientists and students of the newly created medical faculty,' emphasizes Dr. Katarzyna Czarnek.

Close cooperation between KUL and this leading medical center in the United States is under the patronage of the Ministry of Education and Science.

The university plans to start training future doctors in 2023. On the anniversary of the foundation of the Catholic University of Lublin, on December 8, 2021, the Convention for the creation and development of a medical faculty was established. The declaration of joining the Convention was signed by the representatives of the government and local administration, the Rector of the Medical University in Lublin, Prof. Wojciech Załuska, and the directors of hospitals. The work on the creation of medical faculties at the KUL started several years ago, in the first stage education in nursing and midwifery was launched.