History

Red Cross Medical College has its history and traditions. On September 21, 1920 the course for Charity nurses was founded in Latvia, but in 1927 the Latvian Red Cross School for Charity Nurses was founded. In 1940 the title of the school was changed and it became a nursing school of the Health Department at Riga Hospital No.4. On July 1, 1954 the Health Department Nursing School at Riga Hosp.No.4 became Riga 4 Medical School whose title was changed to Latvian Red Cross Medical Nursing School. On April 1, 1996 the school becomes Red Cross Riga Medical School, which was reorganized on July 12, 2004 to Red Cross Medical College.  

Aim

The aim of the Red Cross medical College is to promote professional education for nurses and doctor-assistants and possible further education in connection with requirements of the labor market using appropriately existing intellectual, technical material and financial resources, developing closer cooperation among lecturers, enabling mutual integration of study subjects and collaboration with colleagues abroad and modernize interaction between lecturers and students in the process of teaching and learning.

Tasks

Study programs

Two first-level higher professional education programs are implemented at Red Cross Medical College:

• "Nurse Studies" (4172300);
• "Medicine" (4172100).