On March 22 Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Faculty of Medicine Department of Human Physiology and Biochemistry held a Physiology Olympiad for RSU 2nd year medical students. This was the first Physiology Olympiad organised by RSU after a 20 year hiatus and honouring traditions, the topic of the restored Olympiad was – the heart and the coronary system.
This Wednesday 11 April, Associated Professor Jana Pavāre was unanimously elected as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine by the Council of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Faculty of Medicine.
Applications for the next intake at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) will be accepted by 1 July this year. Starting with the spring semester of the current academic year, the range of study programmes offered to international students has been supplemented by the Bachelor study programme Nursing and the Master's study programme Public Health with students from seven countries already studying in this course. RSU currently offers six undergraduate and five postgraduate study programmes in English.
On 8-10 March, Paris, France, hosted the 26th European Congress of the European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (EBCOG), where young and future specialists from Latvia presented the results of their research work. This congress is organised once every two years, discussing current events and leading opinions in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology.
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.
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.
