326 Students to Graduate UL Faculty of Medicine

The graduation ceremony of the Pharmacy and Medicine study programmes and formal oath taking will take place on June 21, 4 p.m., in the UL Grand Hall. The students graduating the Nursing Bachelor’s degree programme financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) will receive their diplomas on June 21, 10 a.m., in the UL Grand Hall. A diploma with distinction of the UL Faculty of Medicine (UL FM) this year will be awarded to Reinis Svarcbahs, who has graduated the Pharmacy Bachelor’s degree programme with excellence. 16 graduates will receive UL Rector Prof. Marcis Auzins’s certificates of appreciation for successful scientific works. “The Faculty of Medicine is praised for having a large number of graduates. Moreover, the number of graduates tends to increase each year. Among this year’s graduates there are talented young doctors and pharmacists who have obtained qualitative higher education and practical skills here in Latvia; this country is historically proud of its outstanding medical education traditions and high level academic staff.  Thus, our responsibility is to support our new specialists so that they could pursue their future careers here in Latvia,” says UL FM Dean Prof. Ingrida Rumba-Rozenfelde. This year the UL FM Medicine Second-level professional higher education programme will have 52 graduates that is 31 more graduate than the previous year. Among them there are 9 foreign students. The Pharmacy Bachelor’s degree programme will have 24 graduates, while the Master’s degree programme - 25. 225 nurses, who have taken the free opportunity to raise professional qualifications, will graduate the Nursing Bachelor’s degree programme financed by the European Social Fund (ESF); 72 nurse graduates will receive the qualification of “Anaesthesia, Intensive and Emergency Care Nurse”, 34 graduates - “Children Care Nurse” and 119 graduates - “Internship Care Nurse”.

Translated by students of the professional study programme Translator of the University of Latvia.