Rectot's Order no. 43/2020 of the Medical University of Warsaw of March 9, 2020 updating an order on preventing the spread of COVID-19 virus among members of the MUW community.

Please read the following Announcements no. 2 and no. 3 of The University Committee for Coronavirus Management.

According to WHO, some 800 million people around the world have some type of visual impairment because they don’t have access to corrective eyeglasses‼
This problem also affects Papua New Guinea where 10,000 pairs of prescription eyeglasses are needed for the people living on the Esa'Ala District islands in the Solomon Sea.
To meet their needs, Medical University of Warsaw is organizing a collection of used eyeglasses called "Eyeglasses for Papua New Guinea‼"

Five academics from the Medical University of Warsaw received appointment letters from the Mazovian Voivode, Mr. Konstanty Radziwiłł to voivodship medical consultant.

The Polish Pulse Medicine Magazine has been publishing for the last seventeen years an annual list of the 100 most influential people in Polish medicine. Prof. Mirosław Wielgoś, Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw, once again appears in the top ten of the 100 List 2019.

Dear University Community,
In light of the information from Italy about subsequent outbreaks of the coronavirus in the regions of Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont, Emilia Roman and Lazio, I urge all of you who have visited Italy, and especially these parts in the north of the country, in the last several days or earlier, to take necessary precautions.

On February 12, 2020, Prof. Krzysztof J. Filipiak signed on behalf of the Rector a letter of intent to facilitate cooperation in the field of medicine between Medical University of Warsaw and the Republic of Iraq. The ceremonial signing took place at the Iraqi Ministry of Health.

Prof. Bożena Kociszewska-Najman, Head of MUW’s Department of Neonatology and Director of the MUW’s Doctoral Study Center, is cooperating with the Government of Papua New Guinea in organizing a medical mission to the Esa'Al District islands in the Solomon Sea. MUW’s first medical mission to the Esa'Al District will take place in July 2020 at the invitation of the Government of Papua New Guinea, represented by Prime Minister Sir Davis Steven, LLB, MP, and under the honorary patronage of the Rector of Medical University of Warsaw, Prof. Mirosław Wielgoś.

February 6, 2020 in the Department of General, Endocrine and Vascular Surgery in cooperation with the IInd Department of Clinical Radiology and the IInd Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy of the Medical University of Warsaw an innovative surgery was carried out, consisting in completely transcutaneous implantation of a new generation of aortic arch stentgraft.

On February 12 in the Library and Information Centre began a three-day workshop for MUW academic teachers with a teaching method called Case-Based Learning (CBL). The training is carried out by specialists in the education of the teaching staff of medical studies - Professor Sabine Gerhke-Beck and Professor Harm Peters from Charité – Berlin University of Medicine.