Coughing is the body’s defence mechanism – a natural reflex with the main aim to expel foreign particles from the respiratory tract. The most frequent reason for a cough in childhood are viral infections and up to the age of 5, children are likely to have up to eight such infections per year. This is normal and usually does not require hospitalisation or the use of antibiotics.
On 15 January at 13:00 in an open session of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Promotion Council (Hippocrates Lecture Theatre, Dzirciema iela 16, Rīga), Jēkabs Krastiņš will defend his doctoral thesis, titled Perioperative dynamics of renal functional and structural damage markers in children undergoing open heart surgery.
Official reviewers
- Assoc. Prof. Harijs Čerņevskis (RSU)
- Leading researcher Vilnis Dzērve-Tāluts (University of Latvia)
- Prof. Eric Hoste (Ghent University, Belgium)
One of the benevolent spirits in social sciences studies at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) is the administrator in the Department of Political Science, Ilze Speķe. Her daily routine involves spending time among students. "I'm their psychotherapist, detective and mom at the same time", laughs Ilze and admits: "If I didn't like working with students, probably, I wouldn't work here."
Continuing the long-standing and successful cooperation between the Department of Orthopaedics of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University, from 8 to 14 December the Head of the Department of Orthopaedics, Prof. Andris Jumtiņš and Assist. Prof. Ruta Jakušonoka went on a teaching mobility to Israel within the frame of the Erasmus+ K107 programme. They held classes for students of the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University.
The Council of the Student Union of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) is the main decision-making body. Each RSU student is welcome to get involved by standing for election that takes place once every academic year. The Council elects the Board – the executive authority of the Student Union, represented by a Chairperson, an Assistant Chairperson, eight members of the Board and three Vice-Chairpersons.
On Thursday 7 February at 14:00 Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) will hold a guest lecture titled Individual responsibility, legitimacy and public health policy – is this combination possible? in the Senate Hall at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU).
The lecture will be organised by the RSU Institute of Public Health, the RSU Department of Public Health and Epidemiology and RSU Department of Communication Studies.
Harsh Chauhan is from India and works for the Department of Business and Regional Economics in the Faculty of European Studies at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), teaching International Advertising. He has been in Latvia for 2 years now and is also completing his PhD studies in Latvia. The guest lecturer shares his thoughts on the students, the study process and life here in general.
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Dear students,
At the end of the year, together with colleagues from RSU ISA and other students we discussed improvement opportunities for RSU study programmes, including “Medicine”. The following aspects are very essential to RSU: the mobility of our students, harmonisation and synchronisation of course content and volume with similar programmes at other European universities, a gradual increase of the proportion of placements, strengthening of the quality of the study process.
From 13 to 14 December 2018, a forum "Cross-border Cooperation between the Baltic and Central Asian Countries for the Development of Higher Education" was held in Riga. The purpose of the forum was to discuss cooperation between the Baltic countries and Central Asia.
A good lecturer must possess both perfect knowledge of their study course and require modern 21st century pedagogical skills in order to ensure that while working together with a student and ensuring their understanding about the topic, the student is able to draw the necessary conclusions for themselves, for example, concerning the social determinants of health, claims Inese Stars, lecturer in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology.
