Experts at the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Educational Technology Centre (METC) have developed several technological solutions and equipment to help medical students acquire skills remotely during the current national state of emergency. Among them is a prototype for an injection training system that uses artificial blood and an anatomical model of the oesophagus and the trachea that allows for the visualisation of the insertion of a nasogastric tube.
Assoc. Professor Dean M. Harris (from the Department of Health Policy and Management, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US) will give two guest lectures on June 5 as part of the Legal Problems Biomedicine study course.
The second wave of COVID-19 projected to take place in the autumn can be called into question taking into account what is currently known about the virus, Professor Ludmila Vīksna, Head of the Department of Infectology at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), says to the LETA news agency.
PROJECT: EU Horizon 2020 Teaming Phase 2 project: Baltic Biomaterials Centre of excellence – BBCE grant agreement No. 857287.
PROJECT: EU Horizon 2020 Teaming Phase 2 project: "Baltic Biomaterials Centre of excellence – BBCE" grant agreement No. 857287.
Academic societies at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) are non-profit organisations run by and for students with the aim of gaining additional theoretical knowledge and practical skills in a particular medical field.
On Tuesday, 19 May, the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) senate decided to grant the title of RSU Honorary Doctor (Doctor Honoris Causa) to Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, former President of Latvia (1999–2007), Vilis Vītols, patron and Chairman of the Vītols Fund Council, and Zaiga Alksne-Phillips, paediatrician and founder of the Vītols Fund scholarship. The inauguration ceremony will take place on 24 March 2021 at the ceremonious senate meeting in honour of the 70th anniversary of RSU.
Michael Pohar is a full-time student at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) currently in his 8th semester. He is simultaneously a doctoral student at the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) in Düsseldorf writing his academic medical doctoral thesis (Dr. Med. Thesis). Some students choose to start writing these theses already during their studies, rather than waiting to graduate, as with other academic degrees.
For many years, the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) mixed choir Rīga, has addressed new singers with the slogan 'Don't sing in the shower - join the choir!' Today, as the singers cannot meet in person for rehearsals, they encourage everyone to sing wherever they are, even in the shower, by posting a video of its members singing at home, at work or outdoors.
