October 2019 The University of Nicosia has recently initiated the operation of a University Primary Care Centre under the umbrella of the Cyprus General Healthcare System. The aim of the Centre is to provide you, the University community and your families, with high quality primary care. The Centre’s modern and well-equipped facilities are located [...]
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 Limassol. Upon our arrival in Arsos we were greeted by the locals with great enthusiasm. We set-up at the Community Centre [...]
Monday, 14 October 2019 The Medical School announces the establishment of the Ultrasound Institute with the aim of providing medical students, clinical faculty and practising physicians with the opportunity to develop and apply ultrasonography skills to primary care. The establishment of the Institute has been approved by the Senate and Council of the University. [...]
Tuesday, 8 October 2019 Thirty medical student volunteers took part last weekend in three different mobile clinic expeditions. The first team departed from the Medical School at 7:30am on Saturday 5 October. Eleven volunteers travelled to the mountainous village of Kyperounta where they met with a team of nursing students from the [...]
Friday, 4 October 2019 The Medical School through its Mobile Clinic is taking part in rECORD, an epidemiological study of the ‘Prevalence of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases in Cyprus and their impact on daily functionality and quality of life’. Other partners include the Cyprus University of Technology, the Cyprus Rheumatology Society and the Rheumatology Patients Association. [...]
A 5-minute interview with Professor Gabriel Kalakoutis | On the occasion of the World Contraception Day 26 September 2019 by George Sycallides Gabriel Kalakoutis is a Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the UNIC Medical School Professor Kalakoutis, September 26 is designated as World Contraception Day, devoted to raising awareness of contraception [...]
Monday, 23 September 2019 With the beginning of the new academic year the Medical School has resumed its free cervical cancer screening programme for domestic workers in Cyprus. The programme is executed in collaboration with the Filipino Association Obreras Empowered and with the support of the Histopathology and Cytology Medical Centre (Dr Doros Lysiotis) [...]
The institutional relationship includes plans to explore the option of establishing a regional ACU office at UNIC 20 September 2019 The University of Nicosia (UNIC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) in August 2019. The ACU is an international organisation dedicated to building a better world through [...]
On the occasion of the World Alzheimer’s Month by George Sycallides, Director of Communications 20 September 2019 Theodoros Kyriakides is a Professor of Neurology at the UNIC Medical School. He is the MBBS Life Control Module Convenor (CS Year) and the Curriculum Lead for Neuroplus (P Year) Professor Kyriakides, where does Alzheimer’s [...]
Friday, 30 August 2019 Based on employment records released this week by the University of Nicosia Medical School’s Careers Office, of a total of 358 graduates (2015 – 2019), 356 or 99.4% have already been offered positions at over 200 medical centres around the world for residency training, internships, and research. The detailed report includes [...]
Prof Peter Karayiannis is the Associate Dean for Faculty & Research, Co-Chair of the Department of Basic & Clinical Sciences and Professor of Microbiology/Molecular Virology at the University of Nicosia Medical School. On the occasion of the World Hepatitis Day Professor Karayiannis, as you are aware, in 2016 the World Health Organisation (WHO) [...]
Thursday, 27 June 2019 With the aim of serving the primary health care needs of the University of Nicosia community and the local population, the Medical School announces the opening of the first University Primary Care Centre in the country under the newly introduced Cyprus National Health Care System (GESY). The Centre is now registering [...]
The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Public Health in Disasters (EMJMDPHID) is a joint university educational programme organized by the Unit for Research in Emergency and Disaster of the Universidad de Oviedo, Spain (Coordinator), the Centre for Research on Health Care in Disasters of the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and the Department of Primary Care [...]
Thursday, 06 June 2019 The Medical School is participating in a new research project titled ‘IoT based Continuous Environmental Monitoring for Health Analytics (Snow-IoT)’. The project received a 200,000 Euros grant from the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation under the Research in Enterprises (ENTERPRISES/0618) call. The project consortium consists of Cyprus Research and Innovation Service (CyRIC) [...]
Monday, 3 June 2019 Following the application of the Department of Primary Care and Population Health to become a member of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Dr Ourania Kolokotroni, Chair of the Department, and Dr Alexandros Heraclides, MPH Director, were invited to attend the 55th ASPHER Deans’ and [...]
Tuesday, 21 May 2019 The President of the Republic presented Professor Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran with an Active Citizen Certificate in the category of ‘Active Citizens 18+’ at a ceremony which took place on 20 May at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia. The event was organised by the Office of the Commissioner of Volunteerism and Non-Governmental [...]
Tuesday, 28 May 2019 The University of Nicosia Medical School commences a new cervical screening programme targeted to the Filipina domestic workers in Cyprus in collaboration with the Filipino Association Obreras Empowered and with the support of the Histopathology and Cytology Medical Centre (Dr Doros Lysiotis) in Nicosia. The first screening took place on Sunday [...]
21 May 2019 The University of Nicosia Medical School and the Nicosia Rehabilitation Center (NRC) have recently signed a Student Training Agreement. Under the agreement, the NRC will provide clinical training to medical students of both the MD and MBBS programmes. Furthermore, medical students and faculty members will have the opportunity to involve themselves in [...]
17 May 2019 On Thursday 16 May 2019, Second Year MBBS students and Fourth Year MD students participated in the annual White Coat Ceremony held at the University of Nicosia Open Amphitheatre to celebrate the beginning of their clinical training years in hospitals. The ceremony began with the announcement of a donation by the Medical [...]
Friday, 10 May 2019 The 5th Graduation Ceremony of the University of Nicosia Medical School took place at the Cyprus State Theatre in Nicosia on Thursday 9 May 2019. Among the invited guests were the President of the House of Representatives, the Minister of Health who delivered the keynote address on behalf of the President [...]
Graduation 2019 - Live streaming The Medical School’s fifth Graduation Ceremony will be broadcast live, thanks to support from the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta). The ceremony will take place at the Cyprus State Theatre in Nicosia at 5pm on May 09, and the livestreaming will start at approximately 4:30 pm Cyprus time with the performance of [...]
Wednesday, 13 March 2019 Students in our Master of Public Health (MPH) programme have the opportunity to take the UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH) Part A Exam, which is held at the University of Nicosia Medical School every summer. The MPH programme has been designed with the FPH Part A curriculum in mind, and [...]
