The Polish Minister of Health has introduced a CoViD-19 vaccination mandate for all students enrolled in study programs preparing for the professions of a doctor, dentist, pharmacist, nurse, midwife, laboratory diagnostician, physiotherapist and paramedic starting from March 1st, 2022. The University regulations detailing this obligation will follow shortly. In the meantime, we urge all non-vaccinated students to schedule their vaccination appointments as soon as possible.
On January 24, PUMS had the pleasure to host the Minister for Health, dr. Adam Niedzielski. The visit was an occasion to present the ministry’s plans to develop the medical personnel, including promotion of medical studies among young people, and changes in the course of studies, among others.
The US National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation (NCFMEA) has positively reviewed Polish standards that Ministry of Health and Polish Accreditation Committee use to accredit medical schools. The current positive comparability decision extension for Poland is in force until the next review that has been scheduled for the Fall of 2023.
Detailed information is available on NCFME website at https://sites.ed.gov/ncfmea/comparability-decisions/.
Assoc. prof. Piotr Rzymski from PUMS Department of Environmental Medicine was appointed Scientific Director of the USERN Universal Scientific Education and Research Network.
Prof. Janusz Rybakowski from PUMS Psychiatry Department was appointed corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. By decision of PAS General Assembly last December, Prof. Rybakowski was selected for the Medical Section of the organization.
Prof. Lucjusz Zaprutko from PUMS Faculty of Pharmacy was awarded an Honorary Ambassador of Lviv title. Prof. Zaprutko was honored for his long-time research and organizational cooperation with Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University.
PUMS Young Researchers’ Club is a new initiative under the patronage of our Doctoral School that offers workshops, advice, and research opportunities, aiming to become to go-to organization for PUMS young researchers to learn, write and publish academic work in reputable journals.
Admissions to the English-language Pharmacy and Physiotherapy programs at PUMS have been suspended by decision of the Rector. The two programs will not launch their first year classes in the Fall 2022 entry cycle.
Researchers from Stanford University have published an update to their ranking of top 2% most cited scientists in the world. We are proud to share that eight of our colleagues at PUMS have been included in this edition of the list updated by data from articles published in 2020.
We are proud to share that Assoc. Prof. Witold Szaflarski from PUMS Department of Histology and Embryology has been awarded a 12-month research scholarship within the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA Mieczysław Bekker's program.
It is with great pleasure that we inform of yet another award won by Assoc. Prof. Piotr Rzymski from PUMS Department of Environmental Medicine - on December 3rd, 2021 the Jury of the 'Popularizer of Science' competition has decided to present this year's Grand Prize to dr. Rzymski.
We are proud to share that assoc. prof. Piotr Rzymski is the first-ever recipient of the Science Award of the Greater Poland Voivodeship Local Government. This newly-established distinction aims to honor outstanding scientists from our region.
