Zsolt Molnár and László Zubek lead the Critical Care Group (Year-1) with total dedication. Together with their students, they form a strong and motivated team with many interesting research topics. In November, this group was named the Best Group of the Month.
This academic year, the Critical Care Group has formed an independent group for the first time. Its members have diverse backgrounds and are all highly motivated. Most of them work at anesthesiology and intensive therapy departments or emergency departments. Some of them are senior specialists, others are clinical physicians or advanced clinical practitioners. There are members of the group who are MD-Ph.D. students, and there is also a student who is a psychologist.
„Specialists with many years of experience and MD-Ph.D. students can work excellently together, and they all cooperate well with their supervisors. It's an advantage that our students do research on a wide range of topics. This makes our work very enjoyable. What also makes our work exciting is that the topics are a bit interconnected and related. There is only one thing our students' research has in common: they all focus on critically ill patients, except for our psychology student who is investigating the link between blood circulation and depression,” says Prof. Dr. Zsolt Molnár. Some of the Critical Care Group members are focusing on sepsis, while others are researching resuscitation. Some students do research to improve the outcomes in sepsis. “There is research on intraoperative, high-risk patients as well. I am particularly pleased that two of our students are researching the role of artificial intelligence in critical care. I feel that our topics are very actual and very important.”
The fact that first-year Ph.D. students are supported by a scientific methodology supervisor who has recently defended his Ph.D. thesis at the CTM is of great importance. Caner Turan already has a strong clinical background, and his support is a great help in ensuring that the students progress well with their work. Professor Molnár points out that it is impressive how efficiently Ph.D. students work and how professionally they deliver presentations in English. “Our students' presentations would be worthy of a place at international congresses. This will ensure that by the end of the year, when they have their results, they will be able to present them excellently.”
(Szabó Emese)