The national exam period at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) has begun. Seven students from the Social Work Bachelor’s study programme and 14 students from the Master’s study programme sat their national exams on 2 and 3 April. This year the exam was held in unusual circumstances, due to the national state of emergency. The entire study process is currently taking place remotely, and students are taking exams using Zoom.
My name is Pāvels. I am a second-year student at the Faculty of Medicine of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), and I have also been working as a assistant physician at the State Emergency Medical Services (SEMS) for two years. After the state of emergency was declared, I was one of the first to apply for training to work with coronavirus patients.
The International Conference Health and Personality Development: an Interdisciplinary Approach will be held at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) on 27 – 29 April 2020. The conference will virtually gather both local and international participants – psychologists, health and social care specialists, supervisors and students. This will be the sixth time RSU organises the conference – in 2019 the event gathered over 600 participants.
The RSU Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy is organising an international conference, Health and Personality Development: an Interdisciplinary Approach, on 27-29 April 2020.
The conference is being held for the sixth time, but this year will be the first time that it takes place online, making it a new experience for both speakers and participants.
#PartneringAgainstCOVID-19 is a unique virtual partnering event backed by EIT Health and a consortium of biotech clusters and trade associations in the life sciences industry in Europe and across the world.
We asked Anna Jete Gauja, Chair of the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Student Union (pictured), about what advice she has about the challenges and opportunities that we are unexpectedly facing in these times of anxiety, uncertainty and change.
The International Business and Start-up Entrepreneurship programme at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) provides a great opportunity for anyone aspiring to establish their own business and achieve their ambitions. Sergejs Jakimovs is the founder of several international companies and a visiting lecturer at RSU. He explains how to achieve one’s goals, and how the new study programme can help.
Toms Pulmanis, Vice-Dean and Assistant Professor at the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare, admits that the pace with which the in-person study process had to be replaced by remote learning posed a challenge. There are, however, other challenges that students, lecturers and RSU employees have had to face during these times of changes and anxiety too.
Comprehensive construction has been carried out on the RSU Anatomical Theatre complex for over a year – the historical stables are being reconstructed into a museum. Despite the state of emergency caused by COVID-19, construction is still proceeding as planned with strict adherence to all epidemiological precautions, of course. The plan is for the reconstructed building of the RSU Anatomy Museum to open to visitors this autumn.
In this time of anxiety, uncertainty, and hope where many of our daily tasks have been cancelled, postponed, or rescheduled we ask Agrita Kiopa, Vice-Rector for Science of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), how RSU researchers are doing and how the global pandemic has affected scientists' work.
