Last year’s pandemic restrictions meant that we hosted graduates from two years - 1970 and 1971 - in 2021. Meetings connected with the symbolic renewal of diplomas are part of the academic tradition of our university. The meetings after years are accompanied by emotions and sentimental returns to the times of youth and studies. It is also a moment for the whole academic community to thank you for years of hard work and dedication to patient welfare.
Prof. Rafał Krenke, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the MUW, who presided over the ceremony, noted that the meeting constitutes, in real and symbolic terms, a return of alumni to their Alma Mater strengthening the sense of community among the Faculty’s graduates. - Your presence is the proof of your ties to the faculty and the university, and your CVs show that the education you have received has resulted in many years of work in various fields - clinical, scientific, didactic, and organisational,” said the dean, welcoming all gathered graduates.
- You are a doctor for life. No age makes you stop being one. We are doctors 365 days a year, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. (...) This is how we chose many years ago, and this is how we continue to act, uninterruptedly, as long as we have the strength” said prof. Zbigniew Gaciong, Rector of the MUW, emphasising that despite different fates, the fact of being graduates of the Medical University of Warsaw has remained unchanged for five decades.
Among the graduates of the year 1970, who have devoted their professional lives to our university, the rector mentioned: prof. Andrzej Górski, prof. Ireneusz Krasnodębski, prof. Jadwiga Dwilewicz-Trojaczek, prof. Anna Barańczyk-Kuźma, prof. Elżbieta Jodkowska, and the late prof. Wiesław Gliński and prof. Włodzimierz Ruka. Among those graduating in 1971, the Rector mentioned: prof. Longina Kłosiewicz-Latoszek, dr. hab. Piotr Tyszka, dr. hab. Jacek Imiela, prof. Józef Knap, prof. Janusz Ślusarczyk, prof. Jacek Muszyński, as well as the late prof. Maria Roszkowska-Blaim and dr. hab. Marek Pertkiewicz.
The graduates of the years 1970 and 1971, in recognition of their contribution to Polish medicine, long-standing commitment and dedication to saving human health and life, received a diploma confirming their graduation 50 years ago and the fulfillment of “the noble mission of helping the sick, training and shaping the attitudes of younger generations of doctors and developing the health care system”.
Prof. Piotr Müldner-Nieckowski, representing the graduates of the year 1970, emphasised that medicine requires a great deal of knowledge and understanding, but also a sense of observation, the ability to combine encyclopaedic expertise with practical knowledge, psychology, and with what cannot be described, “that is, with experience, understanding distant and close connections between various apparently different concepts and things. This is medicine. This is how medicine works”.
