The student and resident self-government of the Medical Academy of Latvia, currently known by every student as the RSU Student Union, was founded back in 1993 by a decision made on 20 April in the RSU Senate meeting when Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) still bore the name Medical Academy of Latvia.
This April the RSU Student Union is celebrating 25 years of existence and its members invite all RSU students and staff members to joint anniversary celebrations with a number of interesting and historically-rooted events throughout the month of April.
On Thursday 26 April, Rīga Stradiņš University will host the short medical film festival and a discussion on silence, communication and their various aspects — Medfest 2018 Beyond Words. The festival will be held in English for the first time.
On April 9, the Latvian Psychiatric Association, Young Psychiatrist Section and psychiatry residents in cooperation with Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Narcology will organise mental health workshops for RSU medical students aimed at raising awareness and facilitating their understanding of excessive or prolonged stress that is occasionally faced by medical students which can lead to mental health disorders.
From 19-21 April, the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Education Technology Centre (26A Anniņmuižas bulv., Riga) will be the venue of the fourth International Scientific-Practical Conference organised by the RSU Department of Health Psychology and Pedagogy of the Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare titled: Health and Personal Development: an Interdisciplinary Approach.
Tyrone Shaw, Northern Vermont University Professor of Journalism, will read a public lecture titled Bastard Republics: a Tour of Weird Places that Technically Don't Exist at Rīga Stradiņš University on Tuesday, 10 April.
