The Faculty of Health Sciences with the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine provides education in 11 fields of study: dietetics, electroradiology, physiotherapy, nursing, including English Division, midwifery, health psychology, medical rescue service, public health – management in the health system, public health, environmental health and occupational health and safety. There are full-time and part-time Bachelor’s and Master’s degree studies, a total of 19 different courses. Currently it is one of the leading Faculties of Health Sciences in the country, which in the last scientific evaluation received a high category A.

The structure of the Faculty of Health Sciences inculdes 43 different organisational units. A small part of classes of particular faculties takes place on the premises of units of Medical Faculty and Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine in Gdynia. The research outline of the Faculty of Health Sciences includes research in the following fields: nursing studies, medical rescue service, public health, health-care economics, medical law, furthermore: radiological and radioisotopic research, psychology, parasitology and many more.

The Faculty of Health Sciences cooperates with the Nursing Department of Florida University in Gainesville (USA), the University of Karlskrona and University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Klaipeda University (Lithuania), Nice University (France), University of Porto (Portugal), University of Toledo (USA), University of Turku (Finland) and 15 more.

The Faculty is authorised to confer doctoral and post-doctoral degrees in medical sciences and health sciences.

Nostrification of diploma: detailed information on nostrification of documents is available at www.structure.mug.edu.pl.

The Faculty of Pharmacy was established in 1945. Whereas the Subfaculty of Laboratory Medicine was established in 2001. Since then, the two units have been combined into the Faculty of Pharmacy with Subfaculty of Laboratory Medicine.

The mission of the Faculty of Pharmacy is to provide masters of science in pharmacy and laboratory analytics with a high quality and effective education so that they can meet the increasing competition in the field due to Poland’s presence in the European Union.

The Faculty of Pharmacy has been dynamically developing its PhD programme. Together with the Transpharmacia company and the Medical University of Warsaw, the Faculty conducts an elite three semester-long programme “Industrial Pharmacy.” The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Poland accredited the Faculty to conduct specialty training in retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy and industrial pharmacy. In 2012 the Faculty has been recently recognized by the Polish government as a Leading National Research Centre (KNOW) in the field of medicine and health sciences. MUG supported by The Foundation for Polish Science and International Research Agenda (MAB) programme open a scientific centre.

Due to effectiveness of its scientific achievements, the Faculty is recognized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as the leader among the nine faculties of pharmacy in Poland. It is the only institution on the Polish coast with the A+ category in science achievements. The research projects conducted at the Faculty are focused on the design and manufacture of new synthetic and natural medications, new formulations, improving the methods of physical and chemical analysis used in the introduction of new medicinal products, toxicological analysis. Among the strengths of the Faculty are a relatively young teaching and research staff consisting mostly of pharmacists, high quality of under- and post-graduate education, effectiveness in securing research grants and a well-developed cooperation with the pharmaceutical industry.

The Faculty consists of 16 Departments and Labs, Library, Medicinal Plant Garden, Centre for Postgraduate Education and a Training Pharmacy – one of the most modern facilities in Poland for training and applying the principles of patient care by pharmacists and their role in the healthcare system.