- This year, for the first time, we are awarding the Crystal Lancets in a new formula - says Anna Kupczak, chairwoman of the Didactics Committee of the MUW Student Government. - Didacticians from each department receive the award in two categories the Surveyors Crystal Lancet and the Public Crystal Lancet. Eight didacticians out of 17 nominated for the award received them.
The Surveyors Crystal Lancet is awarded to the academic teachers with the highest rating in the Course and Academic Teachers Evaluation Survey. The survey is conducted annually by the MUW Office of Educational Quality and Innovation as part of the MUW educational quality management system. The winners of the Public Crystal Lancet are selected by direct vote of students from among the nominees with the remaining highest ratings.
The winners
In the category of Surveyors Crystal Lancet, the winners were:
- Dr. Monika Grymowicz of the Faculty of Medicine (Department of Gynecological Endocrinology)
- Renata Edyta Lenkiewicz, DDS, of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (Department of Dental Propedeutics and Prophylaxis)
- Dr. Agnieszka Kowalczyk of the Faculty of Pharmacy (Department of Pharmacodynamics)
- Marta Kotomska, MA, of the Faculty of Health Sciences (Department of Basic Nursing).
In the category of the Public Crystal Lancet, the awardees were:
- Tomasz Ciesielski, MD, of the Faculty of Medicine (Chair and Department of Experimental and Clinical Physiology)
- Dr. Zygmunt Stopa of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Surgery and Implantology)
- Patrick Rzonca, MD, PhD, of the Faculty of Health Sciences (Department of Human Anatomy)
- Dr. Sławomir Białek of the Faculty of Pharmacy (Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacogenomics)
Nominees for the Public Crystal Lancet
The nomination in the category of the Public Crystal Lancet is itself a great honor, so it is worth mentioning those didacticians who were among the nominees. They were:
- Dr. Marcin Dziekiewicz of the Faculty of Medicine (Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition)
- Dr. Leszek Kraj of the Faculty of Medicine (Department of Oncology)
- Prof. Urszula Demkow of the Faculty of Medicine (Department of Laboratory Diagnostics and Clinical Immunology of Developmental Age)
- Dr. Radoslaw Górski of the Faculty of Medicine (Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the Locomotion System)
- Dr. Beata Sińska of the Faculty of Health Sciences (Department of Human Nutrition)
- Dr. Agnieszka Iwan of the Faculty of Health Sciences (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Didactics)
- Dr. Anna Minkiewicz-Zochniak of the Faculty of Health Sciences (Department of Medical Biology)
- Dr. Mariola Błachnio of the Faculty of Health Sciences (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Didactics)
- Edyta Podsiadły, MD, PhD, of the Faculty of Pharmacy (Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology)
The awards were presented by students from the MUW Student Government and faculty governments: Agata Andrzejczyk, Karolina Marrodan-Wojtczak, Anna Kupczak, Katarzyna Śledź, Marcin Jaworski, Mateusz Borecki.
Present at the ceremony were: Prof. Zbigniew Gaciong, Rector, Vice Rectors Prof. Agnieszka Cudnoch-Jędrzejewska, Prof. Piotr Pruszczyk and Prof. Paweł Włodarski, Deans Prof. Rafał Krenke and Piotr Luliński, MD, PhD, and Vice Deans Prof. Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, Prof. Tadeusz Grochowiecki, Łukasz Koperski, MD, PhD, Prof. Robert Gałązkowski, Łukasz Czyżewski, MD, PhD, Agnieszka Bazylko, MD, PhD, Olga Ciepiela, MD, PhD, and Joanna Peradzyńska, MD, PhD, as well as representatives of the University's Educational Quality Team and the Office of Educational Quality and Innovation, heads of MUW departments where the nominated didacticians work, as well as academic teachers and students.
