Multidisciplinary School as a BME Teaching Option

The paper presents aims and organizational backgrounds of the Multidisciplinary School of engineering In Biomedicine founded in AGH-University in Krakow. In the context of current issues concerning the education of biomedical engineering in Poland, the advantages of multidisciplinary approach are highlighted. The School organization resembles well a typical faculty, however allows great flexibility in adjustment of the teaching process and schedule to the demand from employers and to available human and material resources. The paper also highlights the School activity in areas in wide sense related to the education of professionals: stimulation of employment needs, scientific initiatives of students and support of improvement in education quality.