[Popularization of the medical knowledge in the twenty years' interwar period--the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius]

Activities of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius concerning popularization of medical knowledge can be systematized in three separate "program modules": pharmacy, social medicine and medical life-saving procedures. The movement appeared some years after the rebirth of the Stefan Batory University, already in the academic year 1923/24. The first of the modules mentioned above concerned pharmacists - persons educated some years earlier in different socio-political circumstances. They wanted to systematize and revive their knowledge and skills. The second group of trainings devoted to social medicine was the dominating one in the life of the University. Among others, there were course on insurance medicine, lectures on controlling of tuberculosis and trachoma. Courses of medical life-saving procedures were organized intensively on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War. They had a remarkably military character and were developing spontaneously as they were not affected by different difficulties normal for participants of other types of courses that had to contend with financial problems and discontent of employers of the young medical workers.