18 February 2021 will mark one year since the Cabinet of Ministers approved the conceptual report “On the Change of the Internal Governance Model of Higher Education Institutions”. The Ministry of Education and Science has announced that the report is bringing in a new era in higher education in Latvia. It is hoped that this will place Latvian universities among the world's top 500 universities in the coming years.
‘My duty is to help patients today,’ says Marija Luīze Kalniņa, a 6th-year student at the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Faculty of Medicine. The young woman is one of many prospective doctors currently working in the nation’s hospitals helping to treat patients, including COVID-19 patients. The student has been working at the hospital already from the beginning of last summer. We asked Marija Luīze about her impressions of the clinic then compared to what it is like today.
Although it is not currently possible to train indoors, athletes from various Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Sports Club teams are still continuing their training. Sports Club trainers have developed individual training plans and continue to train outdoors regardless of the weather.
Athletes are looking forward to being able to train indoors again and to participate in championships, but are keeping up with their training in the meantime.
Dear students of Rīga Stradiņš University,
For a year now, the fight against COVID-19 has been taking place around the world. The global pandemic has had a significant impact on our lives. For two semesters, the study process as well as research at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) have taken place remotely. Medical and health studies cannot be carried out without practical training in healthcare facilities.
One of the scientists who has been included in the Latvian Science Calendar 2021 is Arvīds Irmejs, an Associate Professor at the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Department of Surgery and a lead researcher at the Institute of Oncology. Irmejs is also an oncologist and breast surgeon at Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital. For 20 years, he and a large team of researchers from RSU have been researching genetically hereditary breast cancer and its prevalence in Latvia, and have made significant discoveries.
Theresa Gsöllpointner is a 3rd-year Medical student at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) originally from Salzburg, Austria. She is currently the Head of Integration and Sports on the board of the RSU International Student Association (ISA), after serving as the Assistant of that position the previous year.
Every day this week, the staff of the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Health Centre have had their hands full with students or residents arriving every 15 minutes to get their vaccine against COVID-19. The pace is like on a battlefield: residents work in the reception, nurses administer vaccines, and Doctor Sandra Gintere, lecturer, general practitioner (GP) and Head of the RSU Health Centre, interviews each patient before their vaccination.
On 17 January, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) will commemorate Prof. Pauls Stradiņš’ (1896–1958) 125th birthday. Prof. Stradiņš was an outstanding 20th century Latvian physician – a surgeon, oncologist, medical historian, a public figure and a luminary in the fields of healthcare and science.
