Student Blogs
Conversations with Our Medical Students, Prakriti’s and Ahmed’s report on rare disease reaches UK’s Royal Society of Medicine
by George Sycallides, Communications office, UNIC Health 10 April 2025 Prakriti’s and Ahmed’s report on rare disease reaches UK’s Royal Society of Medicine MD5 students Prakriti Sachdev and Ahmed Eldesouky recently presented [...]
Run for Autism: UNIC Health team scores 1st among 46 groups
7 April 2025 We are happy to announce that the UNIC Health team has achieved first place among 46 groups in the recent Run for Autism 5km corporate race. The event took place in [...]
Conversations with Our Medical Student, Abdalla Modar Dali: Sharing His Clinical Experience in Doha, Qatar
by George Sycallides, Communications office, UNIC Health 21 March 2025 Abdalla Modar Dali shares his clinical experience in Doha, Qatar Taking the initiative during his academic breaks, well ahead of his required [...]
Conversations with Our Medical Students: Michaela & Naresh reflect on their Mobile Clinic Club leadership
by Christos Krasidis, Communications Office, UNIC Health 26 February 2025 Michaela & Naresh reflect on their Mobile Clinic Club leadership At the University of Nicosia, the Mobile Clinic Club offers students a [...]
Conversations with Our Medical Student, Alma Sato: Sharing Elective Experiences at GOSH and Johns Hopkins
by George Sycallides, Director of Communications, UNIC Health 3 February 2025 Alma Sato: Sharing Elective Experiences at GOSH and Johns Hopkins For many medical students, working in top hospitals and interacting with [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Life in Cyprus
Living in Cyprus can be a real joy. With 300 days of sunshine a year, beautiful beaches, delicious food and kind people, you’ll soon agree with a saying they have on the island: “It’s [...]