Thursday. 7 March 2019 Associate Professor Constantina Constantinou has been appointed to the new post of Director of Research at the Medical School with effect 1 March 2019. The post of the Director of Research is a senior academic appointment held by a member of the Teaching Research Faculty (TRF). Dr Constantinou’s role includes the [...]
Wednesday, 20 February, 2019 The Cabinet of Ministers recently appointed as a member of the National Coordination Committee for the Treatment of Hepatitis C Professor Petros Karayiannis, Associate Dean for Faculty & Research, Co-Chair of the Department of Basic & Clinical Sciences and Professor of Microbiology/Molecular Virology. The Cyprus Neurological Society last November elected as their [...]
Tuesday, 29 January 2019 During a press conference held this morning to mark the 13th European Week for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer, the Minister of Health Mr Constantinos Ioannou announced the commencement of the fifth phase of the pilot cervical cancer screening programme for some of the remote regions of Larnaca, Limassol and Nicosia [...]
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 Nicosia at around 10:05am to mark the start of the 8th Annual Christmas Fiesta hosted by the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society. [...]
Thursday, 22 November 2018 This morning five medical students, members of the Mobile Clinic Club, visited The English School, a private high school in Nicosia, to talk about sexual health to students aged 15. This was the first of a series of presentations to take place in public and private high schools in the region [...]
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 Larnaca. As soon as the students arrived on location, they set up their equipment in preparation for the day ahead. [...]
Wednesday, 14 November 2018 by Jennifer Lyons, MBBS 2022 Last Saturday, 10 November 2018, the Mobile Clinic in collaboration with the Pantheo Eye Center travelled to Platres to perform ophthalmology checks. The Mobile Clinic team made a first stop in Limassol, at the Pantheo Eye Center, to pick up the necessary equipment for the expedition [...]
Monday, 5 November 2018 On 31 October 2018 the Medical School hosted another Membership examination for the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MRCS Eng). Ten candidates from countries including the UK, Greece, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq participated in the examination. This was the sixth Intercollegiate MRCS (IMRCS) examination hosted in Cyprus by the Medical [...]
Thursday, 13 September 2018 The Medical School is pleased to announce that the book Social Research in Health and Illness: case-based approaches co-authored by Dr Costas Constantinou, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Students at the Medical School and by Professor Constantinos Phellas, Vice Rector for Faculty and Research at UNIC has received the 2018 [...]
Monday, 10 September 2018 The Medical School’s latest degree, a Master of Science in Health Services Administration (MHSA), has recently received accreditation from the Cyprus Agency of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education (DI.P.A.E.) and will launch in the Spring semester of 2019. The programme will be delivered through distance learning, allowing either full-time [...]
5 September 2018 We are pleased to announce that based on employment records kept by the Careers Office of the Medical School, of a total 255 of our graduates so far (2015 – 2018), 252 or 99% have already been offered positions at over 200 medical centres around the world for residency training and research. [...]
Thursday, 19 July 2018 The University of Nicosia Medical School’s Postgraduate Diploma in Family Medicine has received educational accreditation from the UK Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). The Royal College of General Practitioners, the professional body of over 50,000 GPs that works to raise standards of patient care, has always been committed to Continuing [...]
Friday, 15 June 2018 David Haslam, Professor of General Practice at the Medical School since 2014, has been conferred the honour of Knight Bachelor in Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in recognition of his services to NHS Leadership. Professor Haslam is a faculty member of the Department of Primary Care and Population Health [...]
Tuesday, 8 May 2018 A record number of 13 medical students representing both the MBBS and the MD programmes and two alumni (currently in F1 training posts in the UK) took part in the Pantheo Congress in Limassol on 21-22 April 2018. The Congress is organised on an annual basis by the Pantheo Eye Center [...]
Saturday, 5 May 2018 The 4th Graduation Ceremony of the University of Nicosia Medical School took place at Strovolos Municipal Theatre on Friday 4 May 2018. This ceremony was a celebration of the strong partnership between the University of Nicosia Medical School and St George’s, University of London in delivering the Bachelor of Medicine and [...]
Thursday, 26 April 2018 The 2019 league table showed that 93.6% of St George's graduates go straight into employment or further study. Principal Professor Jenny Higham said: “At St George’s we pride ourselves on developing outstanding healthcare practitioners and scientists who are ready to start their careers as soon as they graduate. While studying with [...]
Tuesday, 27 March 2018 The University of Nicosia Medical School and the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center have signed a clinical training agreement allowing students from the St George’s, University of London medical programme at the Medical School to undertake their final two years of clinical training at this US hospital. This opportunity [...]
Wednesday, 21 March 2018 This morning six medical student volunteers visited The Falcon School, a private English-speaking High School in Nicosia, and delivered a presentation on sex education to 80 students between 16 and 18 years old. The presentation emphasised protection, sexually transmitted diseases and consent. It was well received by the teenagers who had [...]
Friday, 16 March 2018 On Wednesday morning, 14 March, a team of medical students visited The English School in Nicosia and presented the topic ‘Healthy Eating’ to 140 17-year old students. The interactive presentation included information on nutrition, exercise, diabetes and eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating). The medical students were supported and escorted by [...]
Tuesday, 13 March 2018 The University of Nicosia Blockchain Initiative and Medical School will be holding an exclusive, by invitation only, roundtable event on 16 March, 2018 to consider the future impact of blockchain technology on the Electronic Health Records system. Government officials, insurance representatives, healthcare professionals, patients and blockchain experts will be among the [...]
Tuesday, 13 March 2018 The cervical screening programme, which the Medical School and the Business Professional Women, Cyprus, initiated last month, has so far examined 90 women from the remote regions of Larnaca and Limassol. On Sunday 11 March, it was the turn of 28 more women to visit the Pachna Health Centre in the [...]
Monday, 26 February 2018 As announced earlier this month, the Medical School together with Business Professional Women, Cyprus (BPW), and with the support of the Ministry of Health, embarked upon a cervical screening programme for some of the remote communities of Limassol and Larnaca/Famagusta districts. The campaign began two weeks ago at the Health Centre [...]
