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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
3 June 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 develop a curriculum for empathetic [...]
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University of Nicosia in the Top 40 Universities in the World for Quality Education The University also shares the #1 position in Cyprus and Greece for its overall social and economic impact, according to the 2022 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings The 2022 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings once again rank the University of Nicosia [...]
Medical students and ophthalmic trainees competed for the Alistair Fielder Prize in Ophthalmology. More than 30 University of Nicosia Medical students attended this year’s International Pantheo Congress in Ophthalmology, with many of them participating with presentations and posters. The Congress took place in Limassol on 9-10 April 2022 and was organised by the [...]
Does the administration of probiotics to patients with mild Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) reduce neuroinflammation, improve cognitive functioning and positively affect neurophysiological measures? The Alzheimer’s Association has recently awarded Dr Nicoletta Nicolaou an Alzheimer's Association Research Grant – New to the Field to study the effect of probiotics in patients with mild AD. The [...]
