In case of any queries please get in touch with our Timetables & Optional Courses Coordinator Izabela Barzycka in room 614, 6th floor (Rector’s Building).
Tel (+48) 22 57 20 503
izabela.barzycka@wum.edu.pl
Dear ED Students,
This is to remind you that an optional course (obligatory - elective course) has the same status as any other subject. It means that student is obliged to obtain credits each year of studies from the 1st till 5th year.
Required number of hours and ECTS points of optional courses in the academic year 2026/2027:
Year I – 90 hours – 6 ECTS points (3 optional courses)
Year II – 90 hours – 6 ECTS points (3 optional courses)
Year III – 60 hours – 4 ECTS points (2 optional courses)
Year IV – 60 hours – 4 ECTS points (2 optional courses)
Year V – 60 hours – 4 ECTS points (2 optional courses)
In case you fail to do so, it will be treated equally as if you failed other subjects.
Overall number of optional courses a student has to do is 10, and overall number of optional courses‘ hours is 300.
They have to be completed between 1st – 4th or 5th years of studies.
Also, please bear in mind that once you sign up for a particular class from the list, you are obliged to complete this optional course!
List of Optional Courses for ED Students in Academic Year 2026/2027.
SYLLABUSES for Year 1 - 3:
Optional course – Absolute memory - how to remember without forgetting
Optional course – AJAJAJ or AI? Artificial Intelligence in cardiovascular medicine
Optional course – All Work and No Play? Creativity in Doctors’ Professional and Personal Development
Optional course – Chill out! - Relaxation as a tool for personal development and therapy
Optional course – Clean Treatment - Safe Treatment
Optional course – Clinical Anatomy I & II (seminar)
Optional course – Critical thinking – wake up your inner critic
Optional course – Cybersecurity for professionals
Optional course – Dietary Supplements - theory and practice
Optional course – Essentials of human nutrition
Optional course – Future Medicine
Optional course – Hand hygiene and skin irritation prevention
Optional course – Humanitarian Health
Optional course – Latin-Greek Medical Terminology
Optional course – Mechanisms of organ formation and congenital malformations development
Optional course – Migration and Health
Optional course – Nutrition Basics for Everyday Clinical Practice
Optional course – Nutrition in Andrology, Gynecology and Obstetrics
Optional course – Nutrition in Sports
Optional course – Patient education
Optional course – Personal branding for individual doctors
Optional course – Plant Based Diets in prevention and clinical practice
Optional course – Polish language
Optional course – Scientific writing and publishing for medical students
Optional course – Slimming Diet - Truths and Myths
Optional course – Stress management for medical students
Optional course – Successful introduction and assessment of innovation in Medicine
Optional course – The problem of hospital acquired infections. Rational antibiotic therapy in physician practice.
Optional course – Translational Medicine and Advanced Biomedical Methods
Optional course – Travel Medicine
Optional course – Vaccinology in practice
SYLLABUSES for Year 4 & 5:
Optional course – Absolute memory - how to remember without forgetting
Optional course – AJAJAJ or AI? Artificial Intelligence in cardiovascular medicine
Optional course – All Work and No Play? Creativity in Doctors’ Professional and Personal Development
Optional course – Chill out! - Relaxation as a tool for personal development and therapy
Optional course – Clean Treatment - Safe Treatment
Optional course – Critical thinking – wake up your inner critic
Optional course – Cybersecurity for professionals
Optional course – Dietary Supplements - theory and practice
Optional course – Essentials of human nutrition
Optional course – Future Medicine
Optional course – Hand hygiene and skin irritation prevention
Optional course – Humanitarian Health
Optional course – Mechanisms of organ formation and congenital malformations development
Optional course – Migration and Health
Optional course – Nutri-psychiatry
Optional course – Nutrition Basics for Everyday Clinical Practice
Optional course – Nutrition in Andrology, Gynecology and Obstetrics
Optional course – Nutrition in Sports
Optional course – Patient education
Optional course – Personal branding for individual doctors
Optional course – Plant Based Diets in prevention and clinical practice
Optional course – Scientific writing and publishing for medical students
Optional course – Slimming Diet - Truths and Myths
Optional course – Stress management for medical students
Optional course – Successful introduction and assessment of innovation in Medicine
Optional course – The problem of hospital acquired infections. Rational antibiotic therapy in physician practice.
Optional course – Translational Medicine and Advanced Biomedical Methods
Optional course – Travel Medicine
Optional course – Vaccinology in practice