Experts discussed what we are left with after COVID, how it has changed our lives and affected public health. They also considered what to do and how to do it in case of future pandemics.

Erasmus+ is a European Union support programme that enables students and employees of universities from member countries to improve their competences and gain international experience. This academic year 2022/2023, students, PhD students and staff from the Ukrainian medical universities with which agreements under Erasmus+ have been signed (or will be signed) have been given the opportunity to participate in the programme. This is a form of aid for war-torn Ukraine, the painful consequences of which are also being experienced by the universities.

The finalists were announced on November 8 during the ceremonial gala. It includes ten projects carried out by specialists from the entire Poland. The leaders of those from MUW include Mariusz Tomaniak, PhD, MD and Adam Rdzanek, PhD, MD from I Department and Cardiology Clinic of the University Clinical Centre of the Medical University of Warsaw. Both are related to heart disease.

For 10 weeks in Ivano-Frankivsk, specialists from our Department of Emergency Medical Sciences and expert medical instructors from the Polish Medical Air Rescue trained 500 doctors and feldshers from Ukraine.

Piotr Luliński, PhD was appointed the new Dean of the Pharmaceutical Faculty, Agnieszka Bazylko, PhD – the Deputy Dean for Learning of the Faculty of Pharmacy, and Olga Ciepiela, PhD – Deputy Dean for Learning at the Faculty of Medical Analysis.

The influenza season is commencing. We are also facing another wave of coronavirus infections. For the sake of the health of all students at the University of Warsaw, our Medical Centre is organising free of charge vaccinations against influenza.

A patient with complicated kidney stones has undergone ECIRS procedure (access through the kidney and ureter) using the Avicenna robotic system at the Department of Urology at the Medical University of Warsaw, Infant Jesus Clinical Hospital UCC MUW.

Dentists, dental technicians and dental hygienists – 144 persons in total. Happy, but slightly intimidated, the have collected the documents confirming their graduation. At the same time, this is the beginning of a new path in their lives – the desired professional work and bringing help to patients.

– Saving lives is not a crime. I would like you to leave this lecture with the belief that a good „No-Fault” system allows for development – to make sure that a patient is in the centre, to develop the organisation (...) – said Łukasz Jankowski, the President of the Supreme Medical Council during the lecture inaugurating the series of lectures in public health in the 2022/2023 academic year for the students of medicine. The event was organised by the Department of Social Medicine and Public Health of the MUW.

625 graduates received their diplomas and took the medical pledge during the 88th graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Medicine. They could be proud of themselves. They had completed their difficult studies at an uneasy time.