Year 1 · Semester 1

Medicine, University of Rzeszów — cycle 2025–2031, academic year 2025/2026. Everything here follows the official syllabi rather than a summary of them.

Study aids

Anatomy · practical

Spotter drill

Name the pinned structure in English and Polish against a 30-second clock, scored on the syllabus's own 0 / 0.5 / 1 rubric. 497 structures, Exercises 1–19 — all of TEST 1 and TEST 2.

Anatomy · terminology

497 terms, searchable and drillable both directions. The 227 upper- and lower-limb terms have verified Polish audio; audio for the 270 thorax, heart and neck terms is being generated. The Polish name is worth its own point in the practical.

Anatomy · diagrams

Labelling drill

Drag names onto a blank diagram. More names than arrows, distractors from the same region, and nothing marked until you submit — elimination will not save you.

Anatomy · reference

Atlas

Gray's plates indexed to each laboratory exercise, licence-checked and fully credited. Orientation before the lab, revision after it.

Anatomy · Ex 4–6

Nerve injuries

Brachial plexus, the five terminal nerves, and the lesion patterns examiners ask about.

Anatomy · colloquium

Colloquium practice

79 questions, single and multiple choice, run as 30 with a 60% pass — the same shape as the three real tests.

Clinical

Case library

Presentations worked back to the anatomy, the way clinical questions are framed.

Export

Anki deck

Download and import in one step — no copy-pasting cards one at a time.

Courses this semester

Hours and ECTS read off the syllabus PDFs, not inferred.

Course	Code	Coordinator	Hours (Sem 1)	ECTS	Assessment
Anatomy	A/A	Assoc. Prof. K. Balawender	15 lecture + 60 exercise	8	3 colloquia; exam after Sem 2
Histology & Embryology	HEC/B	Assoc. Prof. A. Wawrzyniak	20 lecture + 24 classes + 10 seminar	5	Sem 1 lecture: pass without grade
Biophysics	Bf/B	Assoc. Prof. D. Bartusik-Aebisher	20 lecture + 30 exercise	5	Exam
Cytophysiology	CF	Assoc. Prof. S. Galiniak	8 lecture + 6 laboratory	1	Credit with grade
Elements of Professionalism	PrM	Dr N. Orlov	10 lecture + 10 seminar	2	Credit with grade
IT & Biostatistics	IB/B	Assoc. Prof. D. Aebisher	10 lecture + 20 exercise	2	In progress

Remaining Year 1 syllabi (Medical Psychology, First Aid, English, History of Medicine, Sociology of Medicine, Physical Education) are being read in and will be added here with the same verified detail. General & Medical Chemistry (ChM/B, Podgórski, 4 ECTS) and Medical Ethics are Semester 2, not this one.

Anatomy: the real roadmap

Semester 1 anatomy runs as 28 laboratory exercises with three tests. That — not a week-by-week scheme — is what the colloquia are set against.

Block	Exercises	Content	Ends with
Upper limb · built	1–6	Bones & radiographic anatomy · joints · shoulder girdle, axilla, quadrangular/triangular spaces · brachial plexus & arm · forearm, cubital fossa, carpal tunnel, snuffbox · hand, arteries, palmar arches, superficial veins	TEST 1
Lower limb · built	7–11	Pelvic girdle & hip bone · ankle, foot mechanics · thigh muscles, lumbar & sacral plexuses, femoral triangle · leg muscles, popliteal fossa, tibial & common fibular nerves · foot intrinsics, arteries, palpable landmarks	TEST 1
Thorax, back, heart, neck · built	12–19	Vertebral column, ribs & sternum, thoracic wall · thoracic vessels, breast, muscles of the back · great vessels, pleura, trachea · lungs, diaphragm, mediastinum · heart · pericardium, thoracic duct, autonomics · neck triangles, thyroid, carotid · carotid branches, larynx	TEST 2
Abdomen & pelvis	20–28	Abdominal wall & peritoneum · GI tract · liver, pancreas, spleen · IVC & portal circulation · kidneys & suprarenals · perineum · reproductive organs · lumbosacral plexus	TEST 3

Note the block boundaries: the syllabus places TEST 2 after Exercise 19, and Exercise 20 opens the pelvis and abdominal wall — it belongs to TEST 3. Summaries that put the break after Exercise 20 have it wrong by one exercise, which matters when you plan revision.

Worth knowing early. All 6 mid-semester tests across the year must be passed before you are admitted to the final exam, and a negative result in any thematic block means no admission. Each colloquium is 30 MCQs needing ≥60%, with one retake date. Full rules and grade bands →

Reading list

Anatomy, obligatory sources per the syllabus:

Textbook of Anatomy, Vol. I–III, 2e — Vishram Singh
Gray's Anatomy for Students — Drake, Vogl, Mitchell
Basic Clinical Neuroscience — Young, Young, Tolbert
Atlas of Human Anatomy — Netter
Additional: Clinically Oriented Anatomy — Moore, Dalley