Announcement No. 7/2021
of 9 March 2021
of the Rector
of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice

in connection with numerous enquiries submitted to the University concerning the Ordinance of the Minister of Education and Science dated 25 February 2021 on introducing temporary restrictions in functioning of certain higher education and science institutions for the purpose of preventing, counteracting and combating COVID-19, I hereby inform that the medical universities in Poland fall within the competence of the Ministry of Health. In accordance with the recommendations provided to the Honorable Rector on 26 February 2021 – studies in the summer term of this academic year shall be based on the rules which have been so far applied, i.e. they will be based on a hybrid system.

With regards,
Professor Tomasz Szczepański, MD, PhD
Rector of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice