UNIVERSITY OF LEMBURG (LWOW) MEDICAL SCHOOL

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY .
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT University of Lemberg 5,4047 Medical School
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the.Vniversity of LeMberg jevoir7,
was a large institution and ;ranted degrees in medicine, ongiecoch
ins, law, philosophy, theology, ant animal huebandry.
2. The medical school was kept open during both the doviet and the OOTSAA occupa-
tions, although the school was transferred to Xrakow in 1944.
3. The medicel school of the University of Le erg wee ts ono unit 4Ad awaited
of a nuMher of modern buildings. Tomer* separate buildings for chemistry,
physics, pathology, surgery, anatoxy, and gyvecology. Romer, general courses,
such
as the hietory of medioine, etc, etre taught in the city of Lemberg
rather than, at the medical winter. The University also had facilities for post-
graduatr' work.
4. The University had modern equipment, invluding x-ray equipment, praotically all
of which wee imported from Germany. In 194R-44 new inotruments and equipmenl;
were being imported from Germany but the Uniftraity wee keeplAg the old equip-
ment as vell for emergency wage. such items 44 clamp*, meals holderm, Voreepe,
and tables were also brought in from Geimany and Austria as there vie DO modulo-
tion of these items in Poland.
The training at the medical mchool consisted of five semeetere or pre-clinical
work and four semesters of clinical work before the granting of a degree.
It ens obligatory for students to have elm monthi hoopital experience tlefore
entering the clinical phase of their training. The hospital experience wae in
suoh activities as lab work, blood test*, Wine analysis, gastric analysis,
changing dimming., and learning the technique of injections.
7. After completing the clinical phase of medical education, the medioal student
was granted, a doculent known as absolutoriun." He theA was qualified to take
his final examination. After completing all examinations, it was neoessary to
write a thesis on sou phase of mediaine before obtaining the degree of doctor
of medicine. Drover, it was still not possible for the doctor to enter
practice. PO was required to spend from two to three rearm in hospital work
before being granted a license to practice.
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sEi. The medical school and hospitals generally were short on drugs and it was
necessary for doctors to treat serious diseases with skill and imagination,
as they couldsrtrely on merelygiving-i patient a Shot of penicillin. For
example, docteirOad to be chemists and pharmacists as well, for on such items
as d.iita1is and.:-Meny others, we had to prepare our own formulas. 50X1
a small hospital in Kos iv This was a hospital
of about 70 beds and it served an area equivalent to a county in the US. Its
jurisdiction covered a radius of about 40 miles ia mountainous areas. but
the hospital was used only for real emergencies and operations as it was very
difficult to get the hardy people liVing in the area ever to go near the hospital.
10. There was also an excellent modern hospital of about one hundred beds at Kolimyja.
This hospital served an area of about four counties and had an excellent building
and was very well staffed. The hospital had a &inter of surgeons on the staff
and a Dr Stankewycz was a top flight x-ray specialist.
11. When the Soviets invaded the county they did not strip the hospitals of equipment,
although they did take all of the drugs and. pharmaceuticals and especially the
ampoules which had been sent from Germany. Rover, the Soviets did strip
apparatus from the laboratories in schools, particularly the physics leboratcko.
12, The Soviets arrested many of the best doctors in Lemberg 5Vosi7 and took thee
East. with the exception of some of
Ukraine origin who were taken with the Soviet army. Some of them came back later
with the German army. All of the top figures at the University of Leaherg were
arrested by the Soviets. A director of Scientific Activity and a director of
Education, who were political commissars, were essigneA to the University. The
director of EducaJciav,was responsible for instruction of students in Leniniegibm
Marxism, and dial&kmimaterialism.
13.
The Soviets are not as good in medicine as the Germans
It was rather interesting to note that the Soviet doctors do not use Latin
nomenclature except on rare occasions. Special permission was required for any
students to enter any areas of tho USSR, but the Soviets sent in hunds50X1
of students from the Soviet Ukraine for training at the University of Lemberr5oxi
Medical School.
14. The Soviets apparently bol-teve in training two types of doctors. One grow, 50X1
known as "1011?seed is given mlementary medical education only.
They are trained in masses and are given no postgraduate work. They are
qualified for minor general practice but definitely are not qualified for any
serious rwork.
15. The group comprisegthe vast bulk, of Soviet medical doctors. However,
the sec nd group, which is limited to a rimparative few, actually in given years
of spec, alired training and there is no reason to think that such doctors are not
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16. The 8 viite favored native Russians over other groups, such as Ukraine,. Por
examp el a Dr Pilatov of Kiev was one of the vorld'e top flight experts in eye
conditions, and, was one of the first to transplant the human eve.
Bowyer, he received no recognition because he vas not a native Russien. On
the other hand, Pavlov has been praised to the skies by the USSR because he is
a native Russian.
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