The professor described to his staff, unaware that several students heard him and also recorded the conversation, that the money the students who failed and had to pay to take the course again is collected in what he calls a "fund", reports the Norwegian newspaper VG.
The three professors, two of them from another university in Poland, also discussed the problem that far too many students now pass home exams due to the pandemic.
According to VG, until recently it should have cost the equivalent of 20,000 Norwegian kroner to take a course - but the amount should have just been increased by about 10,000 Norwegian kroner.
Students: "Have suspected this for a long time"
The Medical University of Gdansk has a large proportion of international students.
According to the school's website, 15 percent of the students are foreign - most of them Swedish, Norwegian and German.
VG has spoken to several Norwegian medical students at the university who testify that the systematic teething is something they have suspected for a long time.
- For many, this is just a confirmation of something we already knew.
There will always be someone who fails, but it is not good that there is a financial incentive to bite us, says one of the students.
The discovery is described as a erupting scandal in Poland - and politicians at the highest level have reacted strongly to the news.
The university distances itself
Poland's Minister of Education, Przemysław Czarnek, told Polish news site interia.pl that he would contact the management of the universities involved:
- You can not intentionally reject students to make money.
A written statement on the University of Medicine's website states that what the professor said during the video conference should not be seen as the university's position.
They also point out that the professor did not attend the lecture as a representative of the university, but as a member of a separate academic organization that is not part of the school.