The 19th International Congress of the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care was held in Bydgoszcz between 13-16 September 2017. The conference assembled over 1,500 participants and covered various issues related to everyday practice of anaesthesiology.

We are pleased to inform you our University secured funding for the creation of interdisciplinary, English-taught, full-time international doctoral studies at the Faculty of Medicine at NCU Collegium Medicum.

Monika Sypniewska and Dawid Adamkiewicz, fifth-year students of medicine at NCU Collegium Medicum, are flying to Kenya as volunteers for the project entitled „Treatment with a Mission”. Together with students from Poznań, they are going to spend 5 weeks in the Consolata Mission Hospital Kyeni, at the foot of the second highest mountain in Africa – Mount Kenya.

Monika Sypniewska and Dawid Adamkiewicz, students of medicine at NCU Collegium Medicum, went to Kenya as volunteers for the project entitled „Treatment with Mission”. They spent nearly six weeks teaching courses for medical personnel in one of the mission hospitals.

The Faculty of Pharmacy of NCU Collegium Medicum was honoured to welcome a group of researchers from the Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine: prof. Quan Yang, Associate prof. Xuan xuan Cheng and dr. Chunrong Zhang.

Four researchers from the Faculty of Medicine received scholarships for high-impact publications: dr hab. Sylwia Kołtan and dr Robert Dębski (Department of Paediatrics, Haematology and Oncology), and prof. dr hab. Tomasz Grzybowski and dr Katarzyna Skonieczna (Department of Forensic Medicine).

We are pleased to present the results of the 5th edition of the photography competition entitled ‘The Amazing World of Medicinal Plants’. The competition has become increasingly popular – this year, as many as 127 photographs were submitted by 59 keen photographers.