KształcenieSzkoła Zdrowia PublicznegoZakład Prawa, Historii i Komunikacji MedycznejDepartment of Law, History, and Medical Communication

Department of Law, History, and Medical Communication

The Department of Law, History, and Medical Communication conducts scientific research in the areas of local government activity in public health, patient safety, professional autonomy of medical professions, and the history of medicine. The Department actively participates in postgraduate medical education by delivering specialist training courses and continuing professional development programmes. In addition, it undertakes initiatives aimed at disseminating legal knowledge and expanding historical understanding of the development of Polish and global medicine across the centuries.

The Department also specialises in the development, analysis, and improvement of communication processes within the medical environment. In this area, the overarching objective is to enhance the quality of healthcare through the development of soft skills and the strengthening of trust in patient–healthcare professional relationships. We believe that effective and appropriate information exchange between medical staff, patients, and healthcare institutions directly contributes to improved quality of care, better treatment outcomes, and enhanced patient safety. Consequently, the Department consistently strives to raise standards of medical communication.

Educational activities

As part of its educational mission, the Department of Law, History, and Medical Communication provides:

  • unified specialist training courses entitled “Medical Certification” and “Medical Law” for physicians of all medical specialties;
  • lectures delivered within specialist training programmes for physicians specialising in public health;
  • legal lectures within other specialist training courses organised by the organisational units of the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education;
  • lectures in the field of the history of medicine, with particular emphasis on public health, nephrology, and dialysis therapy, delivered as part of specialist training programmes organised by the School of Public Health and the School of Medical Sciences of the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education;
  • training courses for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals in the field of communication, delivered both in on-site and remote formats.

The Department is also responsible for preparing and conducting examinations in philosophy and the history of medicine for doctoral candidates affiliated with the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, the Children’s Memorial Health Institute, the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

Scientific activities

The main areas of scientific research include:

  • activities of local government units in the implementation of public health tasks;
  • legal and organisational aspects of preventive vaccination programmes;
  • professional autonomy of individual medical professions;
  • quality of life of patients with rare diseases;
  • patient safety in relation to clinical risk management;
  • patient communication and communication within diagnostic and therapeutic teams;
  • history of medicine, with particular emphasis on the achievements and contribution of Polish medical thought to European and global medicine;
  • patrons of clinical hospitals and medical universities;
  • history of vaccination;
  • history of medical achievements of the nineteenth century;
  • development of public health as a medical discipline.
Scientific Collaborations

The Department maintains ongoing scientific cooperation with Polish and international academic and research institutions in the areas of research projects, expert opinions, and scientific publications, including cooperation with:

  • the Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in Warsaw;
  • the Medical University of Warsaw;
  • Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University (Ukraine);
  • the Polish Society of Social Medicine and Public Health;
  • the Historical Section of the Polish Society of Nephrology;
  • the International Association for the History of Nephrology (IAHN);
  • the Department of Nephrology, School of Postgraduate Education in Nephrology, University of Padua, Italy;
  • the Main Medical Library in Warsaw;
  • the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw.
Contact:

Department of Law, History, and Medical Communication
School of Public Health
Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education
(Warsaw, Poland)

61/63 Kleczewska Street
01-826 Warsaw
Poland
Telephone: +48 22 560 11 30

 

Employees:

Head of the Department

Anna Augustynowicz, MD, PhD, DSc (Health Sciences),
Professor of the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education
anna.augustynowicz@cmkp.edu.pl

Professors 
Professor Janusz Ostrowski, PhD, DSc (Health Sciences),
janusz.ostrowski@cmkp.edu.pl

Janusz Sytnik-Czetwertyński, PhD, DSc (Health Sciences),
Professor of the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education
janusz.sytnik-czetwertynski@cmkp.edu.pl

Assistant Professors
Adam Skowron, PhD (Humanities)
adam.skowron@cmkp.edu.pl

Kuba Sękowski, PhD (Health Sciences)
kuba.sekowski@cmkp.edu.pl

Assistants
Beata Gellert, MSc
beata.gellert@cmkp.edu.pl

Agnieszka Pochrzęst-Motyczyńska, PhD
apochrzest@cmkp.edu.pl

Janusz Świeczkowski-Feiz, MD
janusz.swieczkowski-feiz@cmkp.edu.pl

Michał Waszkiewicz, MSc
michal.waszkiewicz@cmkp.edu.pl

Senior Lecturers
Dariusz Hajdukiewicz, PhD (Law)
dariusz.hajdukiewicz@cmkp.edu.pl

Iwona Wrześniewska-Wal, PhD (Law), MD
iwrzesniewska@cmkp.edu.pl

Lecturers
Małgorzata Błaszczak, MSc
malgorzata.blaszczak@cmkp.edu.pl

Piotr Winciunas, MD
piotr.winciunas@cmkp.edu.pl

Engineering and Technical Staff
Mariusz Ruiz, MSc
mariusz.ruiz@cmkp.edu.pl

Administrative Support
Agnieszka Grochowina, MSc
Telephone: +48 22 560 11 30
agnieszka.grochowina@cmkp.edu.pl