In 1949, the Head of the Department of General Surgery, Dr Wojciech Staszewski, MD provided – for the first time in Bydgoszcz – 30 designated beds for urological patients, and appointed Dr Lucjan Nowacki, MD, Dr Antoni Jedruszek, MD and Dr Józef Jankowski, MD as his assistants to establish he Sub-Department of Urology.
In 1955, Dr L. Nowacki, MD, was formally appointed the first ever Head of the Department of Urology. After his resignation, Dr Henryk Gajewski, MD was appointed as a result of a successful selection process. The first doctors trained in urology were as follows: Dr Zdzisław Jarzemski, MD, Dr Eugeniusz Boryk, MD, Dr Ferdynand Tyloch, MD, Dr Tadeusz Lisik, MD, Dr Andrzej Lakner, MD, and Dr Romuald Lewandowski, MD. Throughout three decades of his medical career Dr Henryk Gajewski mentored 13 urologists, including several heads of departments of urology. He laid the groundwork for the development of modern endourology by introducing transurethral electrosurgical resection of prostate and bladder cancer.
In 1985, the Department of Urology became the Department of Urology at the newly established Medical University in Bydgoszcz, and Professor Stanisław Wróbel, MD, was appointed the Department’s new head.
In 1989, the Department of Urology was re-established with Dr Zdzisław Jarzemski, MD as its head. For a decade Dr Z. Jarzemski continued the development of endourology by introducing PCNL (Percutaneous Nephrolithotripsy), URS (ureteroscopy) as well as laparoscopic procedures. Moreover, he developed modern oncology by introducing radical nephrectomy, prostatectomy, cystectomy, cystoprostatectomy and bladder reconstruction surgeries. He mentored 8 urologists, four of whom obtained the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences at that time.
Since January 2000, Professor Piotr Jarzemski, MD, has been heading the Department of Urology. In 2009, the Dr Jan Biziel Voivodeship Hospital was incorporated into the organisational structures of the Collegium Medicum of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and subsequently was renamed as the Dr Jan Biziel University Hospital No 2 in Bydgoszcz. The Department of Urology was named the Department of Laparoscopic, General and Oncological Urology.