On Wednesday, 15 March, after a long break, we finally hosted the secondary schools students who are interested in studies at MUL.  We were visited by over 2000 people from our town, region as well as from more distant areas of Poland. This year’s copious program of Open Doors was designed by over 400 students and our academic body.

Open Doors is an excellent opportunity to get to know our University from within, to learn as much as possible about the place the future candidates are planning to be connected with for the foreseeable future and also get the answers to all the crucial questions: what are the recruitment rules, the dates of documents submission,  previous point thresholds, the teaching facilities at our disposal, what our laboratories look like and how our students spend their leisure time.

Our guests also had a chance to join a guided tour around our laboratories, teaching rooms, including MUL Medical Simulation Centre. 31 workshops and laboratory classes had been prepared and among others they included:

• DNA isolation from genetic material,
• workshops on baby delivery, blood sample collection, catheterisation and laparoscopy,
• sign language classes,
• classes in dentistry phantom rooms.

The official opening was made by our employees:  dr Justyna Agier and Mateusz Znyk. The young visitors were welcomed by Prof. Waldemar Machała, Vice-Rector for Military Health Care. In Aula 1000, the guests had a chance to listen to a lecture by Tomasz Karauda on Pros and cons of studies at MUL. Then, Prof. Katarzyna Taran told a short  story of the search for immortality in medicine and in research by NASA: Who wants to live forever?. What won the greatest popularity, however, was MEGA, the Surgery Workshop How to sew? where 200 participants simultaneously tested their practical skills in surgical wound suturing.

Students organisations and associations put up nearly 40 stalls where they talked about their activities and encouraged the visitors to join the ranks of MUL students.

The attractions at Open Doors also involved the record braking in the number of chest compressions on the innovative, eco-friendly resuscitation phantom, ECO CPR, designed at Medical University of Lodz, where 250 people alternately performed 30 763 compressions within 4 hours !

The last Open Doors on-site meeting was held in March 2019. We are all the more glad that after such a long break we could meet in person. Hopefully, our guests received what they came for i.e. the certainty that Medical University of Lodz is the best choice they can make.

We wish to express our gratitude to the event coordinator, MUL Promotion Office, members of the students organisations and associations as well as all the employees engaged as without them Open Doors at Medical University of Lodz would never have been held. The list of this year’s organisers includes:

• Student Government Council Medical University of Lodz
• Student Scientific Association Medical University of Lodz
• Student Nursing Association Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Emergency Medicine at the University Emergency Medicine Laboratory
• Student Association of Civilisation Diseases Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Dietetics at the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterological Diagnostics Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Gynaecology and Obstetrics Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Non-invasive Cardiology Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Prenatal Cardiology Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Cosmetology Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association Let’s Talk Science Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Family Medicine Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Forensic Medicine Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association Move it! Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Transplant Nephrology Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Nutriepigenomics at the Department of Biomedical Chemistry Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Medical University of Lodz
• Student Research Group at the Department of Surgery and Paediatric Oncology Medical University of Lodz
• Student Research Group at the Department of Surgery Medical University of Lodz
• Student Research Group at the Department of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany Medical University of Lodz
• Student Research Group at the Department of Bioinorganic Chemistry Medical University of Lodz
• Student Research Group at the Department of Practical Obstetrics Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Psychiatry Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Psychodermatology Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Medical Simulation Medical University of Lodz
• Students Research Group of the Department of Dental Techniques Medical University of Lodz
• Student Association of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging Medical University of Lodz
• Students Society of Laboratory Diagnostics MUL
• Academic Sports Association Medical University of Lodz
• MUL Choir
• IAESTE
• IFMSA-Poland Lodz Division
• Młoda Farmacja
• Polish Pharmaceutical Students’ Association
• Polish Association of Dental Students
• HumanLab – University Laboratory of Human Movement and Exercise Capacity DynamoLab
• HumanLab – University Material Testing Laboratory and University Laboratory of Preclinical Dental Education
• HumanLab – University Laboratory of Arterial Blood Pressure Regulation and Autonomic Nervous System Function
• HumanLab – University Laboratory of Sensory Organs Functioning
• HumanLab – University Laboratory of Thee-Dimensional Anthropometry
• HumanLab – University Laboratory of Emergency Medicine
• Department of Biochemistry Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Medical Biochemistry Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Medical Biotechnology Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Biomedical Chemistry Medical University of Lodz
• Department of the History of Medicine and Military Medicine Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Forensic Medicine Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Pathomorphology Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Nursing Pedagogy Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Surgical Nursing Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Developmental Nursing and Health Promotion Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Psychodermatology Medical University of Lodz
• Academic Careers Office Medical University of Lodz
• Student Affairs Office Medical University of Lodz
• Medical Simulation Centre Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Recruitment and Education Medical University of Lodz
• Foreign Cooperation Department Medical University of Lodz
• Military Centre for Medical Education

See you next year!

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