The event was attended by His Magnificence Rector and all Vice-Rectors of the University.
The Stone Obelisk was unveiled in 2009 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of teaching medicine in Warsaw. A message with the declaration of the academic community of the Medical University of Warsaw on bringing up and teaching academic youth and providing help to all the sick and needy, as well as the jubilee motto of the academic community about serving the "People and the Homeland" were inscribed under the Obelisk.
The history of teaching medicine dates back to 1809, when the doctors: August Wolff, Jacek Dziarkowski, Józef Czekierski, Franciszek Brandt and the pharmacy assessor Józef Celiński established the Academic -Medical Faculty (Medical Academy). Stanislaw Staszic was appointed to the post of President and Jacek Dziarkowski was appointed Dean of the Academic-Medical Faculty. In the first year of existence, the Medical Academy had 44 students of medicine and 14 pharmacy students, and the first diplomas were granted to 18 graduates in 1813. The first clinics for students of the Academic -Medical Faculty: internal and surgical, were established in 1811 at St. Roch Hospital.