These days it is hard to think of a day spent without a computer or the Internet. We use various devices and tools to learn languages, plan trips, make business contacts etc. The problem emerges when the thin line is crossed between using the computer purposefully and being addicted to its use.
Three months provided plenty of time for Italian nurse Lisa Tessari to gain valuable experience at the Children’s Clinical University Hospital and the Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital, migrating to a new ward each week, following the daily work of various intensive care, emergency medicine, surgery and therapy units every day. Although Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) welcomes incoming Erasmus+ students from Italian universities every year, Lisa is the first exchange student in Nursing.
These days knowledge is not bound by national borders. For modern universities, strong international engagement in the global exchange of knowledge is significant. The diversity of today’s university stakeholders and the turbulent geopolitical climate require a much more complex understanding of the many facets of internationalisation.
Why would it be important for a graduate who gained their Bachelor's, Master's or Doctoral degree ten years ago for their university to still be powerful, with an excellent reputation and standard of education? A long time has passed, you have many achievements, established a career, your children are already at school and are now considering continuing their education. Why should you care about your former university? For nostalgia's sake?
Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) "International Student of the Year 2018" is Johannes Georg Steibl, 10th semester student in the study programme Medicine with excellent grades who is an active member of the RSU International Student Association. He was one of the initiators of and has contributed to the implementation of electronic study system and medical learning platform AMBOSS. Johannes Steibl is also former vice-president of Deutsche Studenten im Ausland (German Students Abroad).
A number of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) teaching staff – representatives from social sciences, as well as experts in medicine and health sciences - will participate in the IV World Congress of Latvian Scientists, in a centenary event organised by the Ministry of Education and Science.
The students’ Olympiad Cor nostrum is organised by the RSU Faculty of Medicine Department of Internal Diseases for 3rd year medical students. The seventh Olympiad was held on 6 June in the Stradiņš Auditorium at Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital and was attended by 35 RSU local and international students.
The Latvian Academy of Sciences has awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree to Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, Professor Ilga Urtāne for significant and noteworthy contribution to the promotion of dental education and research.
