On 2 December this year, in the Second Department of Radiology of UCC MUW, a pioneering computer tomography-guided procedure of percutaneous cryoablation of a renal tumor was performed.

Please read the following Order no. 272/2020 of the Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw of November 30, 2020 amending the Order No. 193/2020 of the Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw of September 24, 2020 on the organization of classes at studies, doctoral studies, doctoral school, postgraduate studies, courses and training, and the organization of credits and exams, in the winter semester of the academic year 2020 / 2021 in connection with the COVID-19 epidemic.

Please read the following Order no. 258/2020 of the Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw of November 13, 2020 amending the Order no. 193/2020 of the Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw of September 24, 2020 on the organization of classes at studies, doctoral studies, doctoral school, postgraduate studies, courses and training, and the organization of credits and exams, in the winter semester of the academic year 2020 / 2021 in connection with the COVID-19 epidemic.

On Friday, November 13, to celebrate the 212th anniversary of teaching medicine in Warsaw, the university's authorities laid flowers under the stone Obelisk commemorating the anniversary of our University.

On the initiative of the Medical Simulation and Innovation Center of the Medical University of Warsaw and the Termini company, the COVID.Termini.app was created, the first Polish application to help diagnose coronavirus-infected patients without the need to visit a doctor. This application used on a large scale will be able to relieve the burden on the health service and provide the data on the course of the disease.

On November 8th this year, we met the winners of the "Pro Juvenes" competition organized by the Students’ Parliament  of the Republic of Poland. The first place in the "Students' health promotion initiatives" category  was awarded to our students' project "Dethroning action - let's take the crown off the virus".

The MUW Medical Simulation and Innovation Centre in cooperation with the Warsaw Stock Exchange will equip hospitals across the country with 2 000 barrier tents-innovative tools to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Among the medical entities that will receive the tents are also MUW's clinical hospitals-a total of 600 pieces of this equipment will get to the hospitals.

Researchers from our University will launch a study on a new method for treatment of young patients diagnosed with Crohn's disease. The project received funding from the Medical Research Agency in the amount of 5 515 280 PLN as part of the first competition for the implementation of non-commercial clinical trials. The study will be conducted in three academic hospitals dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of children with Crohn's disease: in Warsaw, Krakow and Wroclaw.

The ceremony of awarding the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce to Professor Marek Krawczyk - former Rector of our University from 2008 to 2016, took place on October 28 this year. The ceremony, which took place at the Rector's Office of the Świętokrzyski University, was presided over by the Rector of the Jagiellonian University - Prof. Stanisław Głuszek.

On 28 October 2020 the results of the prestigious world ranking were made available - Times Higher Education by Subject 2021. The Warsaw Medical University making its debut in "clinical and health" field, is one of the three Polish universities which were taken into account by the authors of the ranking.