On Wednesday 11 January 2016, the Dean awarded Roxane Riemer and Kiril Dimitrov with the Best International Medical Student Award; Ana Catarina Ferreira de Azevedo Palhau, Isha Laxmi Patel, Verena Melina Ursula Leppmeier, Irene Dixe de Oliveira Santo, Paulina Bernardová, Oluwaseemo Ayomide Osomo, Maria Francisca Farraia Sena Batista, José Eduardo Proenca, Oluwatoju Akomolafe, Marketa Tolarova, Anne Tharindi Shenali Dias Amaratunga, Daniel Jorge Toscano, Florian Merkle, Nahema Rajabali, Julia Bayer, Milena Tánczosová, Gunilla-Elisabeth Schachten, Max Reichel, Ines Filipe Veríssimo, Luca Mengozzi were awarded the Top 10 per cent International Medical Students Award.
Both awards are awarded annually to the top students, the rules for awarding can be found here and here. They not only represent an outstanding achievement in a symbolic sense, but also have a very practical impact. The awarded students get significant reductions in their tuition fees, while the best students receive generous 50 per cent tuition rebates for the academic year.
The ceremony took place in the Kinosál, a space where other important events like meetings of the Scientific Advisory Board of our Faculty are held. Dean of the Faculty prof. Vladimír Komárek and Vice-Dean for Study in English doc. Květa Bláhová held short congratulation speeches before traditional hand shaking.
