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SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
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Brief History of the Faculty of Health Sciences
The Faculty of Health Sciences was founded in 1975 with the aim of training highly qualified
professionals for Hungarian health care. In the last couple of years both the structure and the
curriculum have undergone changes in the spirit of modernization. So at present there are 13
departments, with about 200 highly-qualified lecturers and more than 3000 students.
The Ministry of Education and Culture qualified the Physiotherapy, Nursing, Midwifery and Dietietics
programmes as ones that provide trainings at international level. (According to the report of the
special committee of the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2003, all the programmes of the
Faculty meet the prescribed educational requirements.)
It was an important event in the life of the Faculty that in 2000 it became an integrated part of the
famous and well-known Semmelweis University. Furthermore, it can also be regarded as a step of
historical significance that the dismemberment of the Faculty came to an end six years ago. Until
then, teaching had been done in three different places, but from the beginning of 2004 on, all
educational and organizational units of the Faculty can be found in one place, in the building of
the former Pajor Sanatorium at 17 Vas street.
Our latest development was the introduction of courses in English (Physiotherapy, Midwifery and
Nursing).