The Medical University of Gdańsk provides education to over 6000 students, PhD and postgraduate students. The University offers: various courses (Premedical Course, English Language Course), Medicine Doctor Programme, Nursing Programme and the Ph.D. Programme, which are taught fully in English. Students have access to a conveniently situated student residential campus, a modern library and a student club “Medyk”. The Akademia Lekarska in Gdańsk was founded on October 8th, 1945. Its history is related to the centuries-old tradition of medical practice of surgeons associated in the Surgeons Guild (active since 1454), as well as teaching and medical and scientific research, particularly in Gdańskie Gimnazjum Akademickie (Atheneum Gedanese) established in 1558. This institution set up the Department of Science and Medicine (physices et medicinae), which was managed and supervised by eminent scholars. Among the most famous lecturers were: Joachim Oelhafius, a native of Gdańsk, who in 1613 was the first to perform a public autopsy of a newborn child in Northern Europe, and doctor Jan Adam Kulmus, the author of the anatomical atlas “Tabulae anatomicae”, published in 1932.