October 2022 Getting involved with the Alumni network is a great way to offer back to the Medical School. Through online specialty sessions and mentoring, you can provide students with ongoing professional guidance on starting their perspective careers, and discuss with them future pathways to practise. In previous years, you had to travel to the [...]
The Medical School announces the establishment of an Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF) programme in Cyprus. The programme is the result of a collaboration between the University of Nicosia Medical School and selected private hospitals/medical centres in Cyprus. Through training and development each Fellow of the ACF programme will undertake clinical work under the supervision [...]
Yousef Kordi, a sixth-year medical student of the MD6 programme, presented his work on the “Effect of sevoflurane on cardiovascular activity at maintenance and emergence from anaesthesia during surgery” at the 2022 IEEE Workshop. His work, which was conducted during his fourth year as part of the MED-405 Research Project course and was supervised [...]
The Medical School Careers Office is pleased to announce that, based on employment records, out of a total of 752 Medical School graduates (2015 – 2022), 751 or 99.9%, have been offered positions at over 300 medical centres around the world for residency training and research. For the MD programme graduates, this year [...]
September 2022 Congenital abnormalities affecting the face are commonplace, and they take a great physical and emotional toll on individuals and families. A recent study co-authored by Dr Annita Achilleos, Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology and Genetics at the Medical School, published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), has helped [...]
“Divine work is easing pain” according to an old proverb. Chronic pain represents one of the most common global health problems. Current medications used to alleviate pain have either limited efficacy and/or significant adverse effects, and usually do not improve the prognosis of diseases that are typically present in patients suffering from chronic pain such [...]
Dr Charalambos C. Charalambous, a post-doctoral fellow in Neuroscience, has recently successfully completed a 3-week intensive course in Computational Neuroscience. This course is offered online via the Neuromatch Academy (https://academy.neuromatch.io) which teaches the computational techniques crucial for success in academia and industry. It serves thousands of students each year with hundreds of teaching assistants around [...]
3 August 2022 The University of Nicosia announced on 1 August 2022 that Professor Andreas Charalambous has been promoted to the new post of Executive Vice President, Health. The new position, created by the Council of the University, will support the strategic development of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Health Sciences under the umbrella of UNIC [...]
Thursday, 28 July 2022 by Prof Peter Karayiannis, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Nicosia Medical School. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that there are currently about 300 million chronic hepatitis B, 45 million chronic hepatitis C and around 15 million chronic hepatitis D carriers. The disease burden in Europe is 25 million, [...]
Wednesday, 20 July 2022 The University of Nicosia Medical School is participating in the project ‘Curriculum Development using VR technology to enhance empathetic communication skills in future health care professionals’ (EmpathyInHealth) which is funded by the Erasmus+ programme (KA203 Strategic Partnerships for higher education). The main aim of EmpathyInHealth is to create a curriculum for [...]
UNIC's Medical School Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Katerina Prokopiou, is the first author of the study ‘A prospective multicentre, randomised, double-blind study designed to assess the potential effects of omega-3 fatty acids,’ which was presented at the conference of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2022 held recently in Denver, Colorado. [...]
Social responsibility is fundamental to the Medical School and is demonstrated in many ways, one of which being the mobile clinic expeditions. After one and a half years of inactivity due to the COVID pandemic, the mobile clinic took to the road again this academic year, visiting rural areas including Lythrodontas, Geri, Kyperounta and [...]
Thursday, 07 July 2022 The University of Nicosia Medical School is participating in the project ‘Curriculum Development using VR technology to enhance empathetic communication skills in future health care professionals’ (EmpathyInHealth) which is funded by the Erasmus+ programme (KA203 Strategic Partnerships for higher education). The main aim of EmpathyInHealth is to create a curriculum for [...]
The 8th Graduation Ceremony of the University of Nicosia Medical School took place at the UNIC Open Amphitheatre on Tuesday 28 June 2022. Among the invited guests was the Minister of Health Mr Michael Hadjipantela and representatives of medical councils, societies and affiliated hospitals. Read More: https://bit.ly/3yroWb6 The ceremony ended with the new doctors publicly [...]
The research project entitled ‘‘The effect of pharmacology teaching on diverse learners in a problem-based learning medical curriculum (PharmPBL)’ was successfully completed as of May, 2022. This was a joint research project between the University of Nicosia Research Foundation (UNRF) and St George’s, University of London (SGUL). The project received competitive funding from the Research [...]
The 8th Graduation Ceremony of the University of Nicosia Medical School took place at the UNIC Open Amphitheatre on Tuesday 28 June 2022. Among the invited guests was the Minister of Health Mr Michalis Hajdipantela and representatives of medical councils, societies and affiliated hospitals. In his welcome speech Dean Professor Andreas Charalambous congratulated the [...]
Participation of students of the University of Nicosia Medical School in the ‘Beyond Pre-Accelerator Programme’ of Junior Achievement Cyprus Junior Achievement Cyprus launched for the first time in Cyprus the ‘Beyond Pre-Accelerator Programme.’ The Programme builds a bridge between purely educational programmes delivered to universities and more advanced accelerators and incubators. It aims to [...]
Scholarship for the PhD in Medical Sciences in the field of Epidemiology and Public Health for the PhD Research Project ‘Efficacy of dietary supplement use in cancer survivorship care: Meta-analysis for guiding evidence-based patient care’ The PhD in Medical Sciences: The University of Nicosia Medical School offers the degree PhD in Medical Sciences in Epidemiology [...]
Scholarship for the PhD in Medical Sciences in the fields of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering for the PhD Research Project ‘Development of a closed-loop controller for automatic administration of anaesthetic and analgesic agents during surgery using machine learning methods’ The PhD in Medical Sciences: The University of Nicosia Medical School offers the degree PhD in Medical [...]
Scholarship for the PhD in Medical Sciences in the field of Neuroscience for the PhD Research Project ‘Characterization of circadian rhythm modulations in intracranial EEG and their relationship to seizure onsets in focal epilepsy’ The PhD in Medical Sciences: The University of Nicosia Medical School offers the degree PhD in Medical Sciences. The degree is awarded [...]
The University of Nicosia Medical School is participating in the project ‘Curriculum Development using VR technology to enhance empathetic communication skills in future health care professionals’ (EmpathyInHealth) which is funded by the Erasmus+ programme (KA203 Strategic Partnerships for higher education). The main aim of EmpathyInHealth is to create a curriculum for empathetic skills development [...]
The Medical School Student Society (MSSS) of the University of Nicosia Medical School in collaboration with the Medical Students Research Society (MSRS), and faculty and administrative staff of the School organised the first University of Nicosia Medical School Student Research Conference. The Conference took place on Saturday May 28, 2022 and was conducted in [...]
