Our students at "Juvenes Pro Medicina 2021"

24.05.2021

More than 3000 participants took part in the 59th Polish and 17th international edition of the Juvenes Pro Medicina conference, which was held from 14th to 16th of May, 2021 in Łódź. Its organiser was the Students’ Scientific Society at the Medical University of Łódź. The event consisted of 32 thematic sessions, workshops for passive participants, and lectures.

Representatives of the Medical University of Gdańsk took part in the conference with good results:

• Ewa Maria Sokolewicz (5th year of medicine – ED) took 2nd place in dermatology session with work Prevalence of dermatological symptoms in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex, in which she presented the connection between dermatological symptoms and presence of tuberous sclerosis complex and proposed exploitation of this correlation in diagnostic of this disease. Supervisors of this work were Agnieszka Tarasewicz, Ph.D. from the Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Disease, and Head of this unit, Prof. Alicja Maria Dębska Ślizień.

• Julia Nizgorska (6th year of medicine) took 3rd place in the same session with work The analysis of the systemic isotretinoin fear in patients with acne vulgaris. The main objective of this work was an evaluation of the presence and reasons of fear of using isotretinoin among people suffering from acne and determining of dermatologist’s effect on reduction of anxieties. Its supervisor was Assoc. Prof. Magdalena Trzeciak, Dr. Habil from the Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology.

• Kaja Piwowska (3rd year of medicine) took 2nd place in surgical clinical case session with work Intradural disc herniation: A report of two cases and review of the literature. She presented two cases of intradural disc herniation, focusing especially on its diagnostic. While using present methods of examination, its symptoms are indistinguishable from the common hernia of the intervertebral disc. The work was supervised by Michał Krakowiak, M.D. from the Department of Neurosurgery and Head of this unit prof. Paweł Słoniewski.

• Jakub Bychowski (MUG’s graduate) took 3rd place in cardiology session with work Medical, organisational and patient-related factors affecting time from symptoms to admission and Door-to-Balloon Time in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, which aim was to evaluate the quality of care and length of delays in patients admitted to the University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk diagnosed with heart ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. The co-author of this work was Tomasz Michalski, M.D., while its supervisors were Witold Bachorski, M.D., and prof. Miłosz Jaguszewski from the 1st Department of Cardiology.

• Piotr Madej (4th year of medicine) presented work on Thoracic spinal tuberculosis with myelopathy complicated by Cutibacterium acnes surgical site infection. It concerned a case of thoracic spinal tuberculosis with myelopathy in a 24-year old student from international exchange. Surgical treatment was successful, but the wound has been infected with bacteria Cutibacterium acnes, which is recently a subject of much research in similar neurosurgical cases. This work’s supervisors were also Michał Krakowiak, M.D. and prof. Paweł Słoniewski.