Academic traditions of our University date back to 1944 when four faculties : Medical, Natural, Agrarian and Veterinary of the new University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska were established. Soon other faculties followed: Pharmaceutical, Law (1949), Zootechnics (1957). In 1950 the Medical and the Pharmaceutical faculties were sectioned off to form the Medical Doctors University – later the University of Medicine renamed in 2008 into the Medical University of Lublin.