TABMED 2023 Toruń and Bydgoszcz Medical Summer Program
The Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum of the Nicolaus Copernicus University (Bydgoszcz, Poland), is pleased to welcome applications for the 4th edition of the TABMED program. TABMED is an opportunity for students interested in medical and pharmaceutical sciences to lead a 4-week-long summer research project in one of the following areas:
- medicine
- pharmacy
- laboratory medicine
- cosmetology
- nursing
- midwifery
- physiotherapy
- medical rescue
- dietetics
- public health
- ocular optics
- optometry
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Program
The main component of the summer program is an active participation in the selected medical and pharmaceutical research project offered by the staff members of the Collegium Medicum, please see the topics and their descriptions below. Interested students are welcome to contact possible advisors for more details concerning the foreseen projects and discuss the dates that the project could be undertaken. The NCU students can join to each project.
See the
list of topics and advisors.
Apart from the projects, once a week we will organise an invited lecture and a lunch or dinner for the entire group. We will also offer short trips / sightseeing in the Bydgoszcz area on selected weekends. All students will be asked to give 15-minute presentations about the results of their projects at the end of their stay in Bydgoszcz.
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Schedule for 2023 edition:
- January 9th till March 5th, 2023
- submission of the research project proposals by the projects' supervisors
- March 15th, 2023
- announcement of the selected projects on the TSSP web sites
- March 20th – April 20th, 2023
- recruitment of foreign students for individual research projects
- May 8th, 2023
- announcement the list ( and reserve list) of participants
May 2nd – May 31st, 2023 (June 1st - 18th, 2023)
- recruitment of NCU students
- May - June, 2023
- formalities for foreign students
June 30th, 2023 (at the beginning of July, 2023)
- announcement the list (and reserve list) of participants from NCU
- July, August - mid September 2023
- implementation of Summer Programs
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Application
We kindly ask all interested students to provide us with the following information
in English or Polish:
- Application form; (closed)
- Curriculum Vitae (max. 4 pages);
- Motivation letter (max. 1 page) containing the title(s) of the project(s) they would like to contribute to
- Consent to personal data processing.
- Optional: letter of recommendation, e.g. from their scientific advisor, staff member from their institute, former internship advisor, etc.
- Proof of student status.
Complete applications should be send to
tabmed [at] umk.pl before the deadline of April 20th, 2023, 14:00 CET. The results of the selection procedure will be announced on the 8th of May, 2023.
Please note that we cannot reimburse your travel expenses to Toruń / Bydgoszcz. See the official regulations for the Toruń Students Summer Programs:
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Housing
For each participant, we will offer the student housing in Bydgoszcz and a daily allowance of 70 PLN (~15 euro), which is sufficient to cover the living costs during the stay in Poland.
Students will be offered single or double occupancy rooms in the
dormitories of the Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, located at the walking distance to the Antoni Jurasz University Hospital No. 1 in Bydgoszcz.
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Contact
We encourage prospective summer students to send questions about the science projects directly to the advisors, whose emails are listed below
each project description.
Questions that are not related to the specific projects can be sent to the school organizers:
tabmed [at] umk.pl.
TABMED Coordinator: Oliwia Kowalczyk, PhD
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