Pomeranian Medical University (PMU) was established in 1948 in Szczecin

Szczecin

Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....

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Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. It is referred to as Pomorski Uniwersytet Medyczny in Polish

Polish language

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Viewed from a historical perspective, a period of 53 years, when compared with the multicentennial tradition of other universities, is short indeed.
When one considers that Szczecin was never a seat of schools of higher learning and the establishment of the University took place just after an exceptionally devastating war with local physicians, scientists and teachers missing altogether, one must admit that 50 years of active existence of the University is an outstanding achievement.

The first organizers of the Pomeranian Medical University were Prof.