Pharmacy and Medical Analytics students welcomed to the university

- Today 264 new students will join the Medical University of Warsaw. It is your great success, because getting into our university is not easy. Without a doubt, you are the best of the best - said Prof. Zbigniew Gaciong, Rector of the MUW to the first-year students of Medical Analytics and Pharmacy gathered in the Prof. Janusz Piekarczyk Lecture Hall.

185 students of Pharmacy and 79 students of Medical Analytics were welcomed at the matriculation ceremony by Joanna Kolmas, MD, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy. - I hope that each of you will find something or someone that will inspire you to develop, to find your own way, to discover, and to transform the knowledge and gained skills into helping others. The dean recognized students who achieved the highest scores during the recruitment process, among them were: Anna Wieczorek, Adriana Skoczylas, Aleksandra Ostrowska, Radosława Mitura, Jan Wójkowski and Bartłomiej Kot.

The Vice Dean of the Faculty, Piotr Luliński, MD, PhD, as well as the Chairpersons of Boards of Education: dr. Anita Śliwńska and dr. Agnieszka Zielińska, also addressed the matriculated. Hanna Dąbrowska, president of the Students' Self-Government of the Faculty of Pharmacy, also took the floor: - Today you are beginning a new stage of life, there are a few years of hard work and a lot of learning ahead of you. But you will also have time to develop new interests, experience many wonderful adventures, and make new friends that will stay with you for the rest of your lives.

The oath was taken by Agnieszka Bazylko, MD, PhD, Vice Dean of the Faculty.

At the end of the ceremony the guests listened to the matriculation lecture entitled “A Historical and Pharmaceutical Walk Around Warsaw” by Iwona Arabas, MD, PhD, professor at the Institute for the History of Science PAS, head of the History of Natural and Medical Sciences Research Unit, the graduate of our University.

The ceremony was attended by: Prof. Paweł Włodarski - Vice Rector for International Relations, Development and Promotion, Prof. Rafał Krenke – Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, prof. Agnieszka Mielczarek – Vice Dean of the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Mariusz Gujski, MD, PhD – Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Dariusz Białoszewski, MD, PhD, MUW professor – Dean of the Faculty of  Medical Sciences, Prof. Grzegorz Nałęcz-Jawecki - Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Discipline Council as well as the university Bursar - Jolanta Ilków.