Student Blogs
On the road to Lythrodontas village
Thursday, 28 April 2022 On 17 April 2022 the Medical School Mobile Clinic travelled to the village of Lythrodontas in the district of Nicosia. Seventeen medical student volunteers under the guidance of Doctors Andrea [...]
MSSS and Student Life
by Ioannis Apergis, President of Medical School Student Society (MSSS) December 2020 “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won,” said Winston Churchill. Everyone is concerned about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the daily life [...]
Exams in the Midst of Pandemic
June 2020 By Jennifer Lyons, MBBS 2021 Strict lockdowns, unreliable WiFi and Medical School exams. How are students coping? The lockdown in Cyprus began on 19 March. For many international students at [...]
Mobile Eye Clinic goes to Arsos village
Friday, 25 October 2019 by Daniel Couchenour, MBBS, Class of 2022 Last Sunday, in collaboration with the Pantheo Eye Center, the annual Mobile Eye Clinic expedition took place at Arsos village in the district of [...]
“So Coroner what was the cause of death?”
Friday, 12 April 2019 by Hafsa Omer Sulaiman, MBBS 2022 “The spike penetrated the chest wall and perforated the aortic arch; a few centimetres to the right and she may have pulled through.” That went [...]
The biochemistry between us
Tuesday, 04 February 2019 by Dr Chloe Antoniou, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry My fondest childhood memory was teaching my younger sister math. Being four years older than her, I felt that it was the [...]
“Congrats, you’re a doctor” Now what?
Tuesday, 22 January 2019 by Eleni Naria Hadjicosta, Alumni 2018 You start with a goal. Graduate med school. Pretty big thinking when you’re 18 years old. And then one day, you wake up, and realise [...]
PBLx SGUL-UNIC: A unique brand of learning, catered by Zorbas
Thursday, 10 January 2019 by Elsie Marieanne Sowah, MBBS 2021 It’s around 10:30 and you’re using every last drop of the grade school-inculcated discipline within you to ignore the pink Zorba’s box (baked goods/pastries) on [...]
300+ BP measurements during the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society’s Xmas Fiesta
Thursday, 6 December 2018 by Elsie Sowah, MBBS 2021 On Saturday1 December the echo of the Cyprus Boy Scouts’ marching band reverberated throughout the lobby of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) Central Office in [...]
Successful Mobile Clinic Expedition to Larnaca: Movember Edition
Tuesday, 20 November 2018 by Rasha Ahmed Abdalla Taha Eid, MD 2023 On Saturday 17 November, a group of medical student volunteers participated in the mobile clinic expedition that took place in Ermou square in [...]