Postgraduate students have all the rights and benefits provided for students of the first cycle of studies except for the right to free textbooks. The Foundation is obliged to ensure that students with disabilities and/or special needs have accessibility to the proposed texts and teaching (par.3, no.34, Law 4485/2017).
Postgraduate students are obliged to:
-Successfully attend the offered postgraduate courses. A postgraduate student is considered to have attended only if he/she has completed 70% of the course hours and practical exercises of the four semesters of study according to the current curriculum. Otherwise he/she is obliged to repeat the course or the Practical Training.
-Attend conferences, workshops and other scientific events on topics related to the subject of the MSc (they are informed about them every year by the MSc Committee).
-In case of assignment of a coursework, they must submit it within the prescribed deadlines.
-Attend the exams
-Successfully complete their internship
-Successfully complete the writing of their Master’s thesis.
-Pay the full amount of the tuition fees (3000 for the entire duration of the course)
-Complete the respective evaluations of the lectures they attend so that there is a clear picture of their satisfaction with the teaching services provided.
-Each Postgraduate Student must successfully complete all the compulsory courses.
An MSc student is considered to have successfully completed his/her studies and is awarded when:
-Has successfully passed the required courses
-Has successfully passed the Master’s Thesis and successfully completed the internship
-Has completed the thesis and passed the final examination and passed the thesis successfully -Has earned 120 ECTS credits.
-Has been recognized by the Interdisciplinary Organization for the Recognition of Academic Qualifications and Information (DOATAP), in accordance with Law No. 4957/2022 (article 304) for a degree from a foreign institution.
Newly admitted students are informed about the content of the studies, the structure and organization of the educational process as well as the operation of the MSc through two advisory group meetings with the Director and representatives of the Steering Committee, at the beginning of the educational period. At the same time, a welcome meeting is organized with the newly arrived students where they have the opportunity to meet in person with invited professors of the MSc.
The MSc uses the existing logistical infrastructure of the Department of Medicine for the implementation of the courses, which includes: Classrooms, lecture halls, auditoriums and laboratories. The classrooms where the courses of the MSc are held, are the classrooms of the building of the Faculty of Medicine in Viopolis, Larissa.
These rooms are equipped with audiovisual equipment (computers, projectors, microphone and sound system, videoconferencing system and the necessary software). In addition, all postgraduate students are given the opportunity to have at their disposal modern systems and tools, such as access to a computer in the Medical Department, an e-mail address, secure access to the University’s network through a virtual connection (Virtual Private Network – VPN), wireless access to the Internet, acquisition of an academic identity card, in order to carry out their studies. Postgraduate students have access to the fully equipped Library, which provides all the services of a modern university library, (a constantly growing collection of a variety of information materials, some of which are available in electronic form, access to electronic catalogues and information resources, lending, support for people with disabilities, information support and training through seminars for first-year postgraduate students to acquire skills in the use of resources, and access to information resources).