Seventeen years of
medical cases,
one quiet revolution.
From a small editorial desk in Wrocław in 2009 to an international, peer-reviewed home for clinical case reports — this is the story of PrzypadkiMedyczne.pl, and the community of physicians, students and partners who made it.
A modest journal that grew, quietly, into something indispensable.
The long arc.
Seventeen years compressed into the moments that shaped the journal — the launches, the conferences, the recognitions, and finally, the handoff.
- 2009
PrzypadkiMedyczne.pl is founded
Mateusz Palczewski, a Wrocław-based founder, launches an online journal devoted to a then-unfashionable form: the clinical case report. The aim — give Polish physicians a place to share difficult, instructive cases in their own language. A small editorial team forms around the idea.
- 2011
I Konferencja PrzypadkiMedyczne.pl
First national conference at Akademia Medyczna Wrocław. Inaugural lecture by prof. Maria Siemionow (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio). Twelve professors present cases. The journal earns its place.
- 2012
MNiSW & Index Copernicus indexed
The journal is recognized by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) and earns its Index Copernicus Value — its first formal scholarly recognitions. Print issues begin shipping to subscribers.
- 2013
II Konferencja PrzypadkiMedyczne.pl
Second conference, livestreamed across Poland, with seven CME points. Patronage from Elsevier Urban & Partner, MEDtube, and the regional medical chambers. Co-financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
- 2015
A digital-first archive
The print run winds down; the full archive moves online and becomes freely searchable for clinicians and students.
- 2016
III Konferencja PrzypadkiMedyczne.pl
Third edition, October 8 in Wrocław. Important, difficult and instructive cases presented by recognized specialists across many fields of medicine. Co-organized with Meducase and PIKMED, with media partners MedFor.me and Polinnovation Med.
- 2020
Pandemic case studies
The community contributes a wave of COVID-era case reports — clinical observations from the front line, captured in real time.
- 2024
Going international
Editorial board concludes that the next chapter must be in English, peer-reviewed, and globally open. Work begins on a new home.
- 2026
MedCaseReports.com
PrzypadkiMedyczne.pl becomes MedCaseReports.com. Same mission, larger room. The Polish archive is preserved, in full.
Wrocław, on a Saturday in March.
Three times — in 2011, 2013 and 2016 — the editorial team filled an auditorium with physicians, residents and medical students to discuss a single thing: the cases that taught them the most.
The first gathering.
Inaugural lecture by prof. Maria Siemionow (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio). Twelve professors present cases. Honorary patronage of the Rector of AM Wrocław.
Twice the size, livestreamed.
7 CME points. Livestreamed live across Poland on www.PrzypadkiMedyczne.pl. Co-financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
The third edition.
Important, difficult and instructive cases presented by recognized specialists across many fields of medicine — see how experts handle hard situations, learn how to avoid mistakes. Co-organized with Meducase and PIKMED.
The editorial team, after curtain.
Eight years in. The people who read every submission, chased every reference, and kept a small Polish journal alive long enough for it to become an international one. Photographed on stage at the III Konferencja in Wrocław, October 2016 — the green ribbons still pinned on.
Paper, ink, ISSN.
For several years PrzypadkiMedyczne.pl arrived in clinicians' mailboxes as a printed quarterly — between six and seven cases per issue, peer-reviewed, with editorial commentary.
The covers carried the same friendly logotype as the website, the same red checkmark — a small joke against the seriousness of the contents.
The partners who believed early.
Publishers, manufacturers, broadcasters and medical chambers stood with the journal at the right moments. The platinum-tier partners below appeared on every poster, on every conference banner, in every masthead.
A handful of editors, a community of authors.
The journal was always a volunteer effort, run between clinics and lecture halls. Below are the few publicly-named figures who shaped it; the rest are listed in every issue's masthead.
prof. Andrzej Gładysz
Steered the journal's editorial direction across its seventeen-year run — from launch to international handoff.
prof. Adam Szeląg
Led the editorial direction of all three national conferences.
prof. Maria Siemionow
Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. Set the tone of the first conference.
Editorial board
Dozens of physicians who quietly reviewed thousands of submissions. Founded in 2009 by Mateusz Palczewski, who built the platform and gathered the first contributors. For many of the later years the board was maintained and coordinated by Wiesław Palczewski.
Same mission. Larger room.
MedCaseReports.com is the same journal — the same editorial standards, the same care for the difficult case — published in English, peer-reviewed, and open to clinicians anywhere.
To every author, reviewer, presenter, and quietly diligent reader of the last seventeen years — dziękujemy. Thank you. We'll see you in the next case.