COURSES/CURICULUM
MODERN CURRICULUM
MODERN CURRICULUM
THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH IS A 6 YEAR FULL PROGRAMME FOR FOREIGN CITIZENS.
The main goal of the School is to educate medical students as well as to provide health professionals with the highest scientific standards. An additional aim is to perform high-quality research frequently in collaboration with other Greek and international research centres. A student of this programme participates in various research programmes of the Laboratories and Medical Departments. It is of high importance for us the dissemination of all ethical values to students governing the medical practice as well as to ensure that young medical doctors will acquire all scientific knowledge which will enable them to diagnose and effectively manage health problems.
IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE MEDICAL DEGREE STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE 83 MODULES (76 COURSES AND 7 COURSES – CLINICAL TRAINEESHIPS)
Clinical skills are shaped from the first semester and clinical rotations start from the 4th year. During the final year, students will be having a full-time supervised clinical training at the affiliated Hospitals. The duration of the undergraduate programme is 12 semesters and students have to accumulate 360 ECTS equally alocated. Upon successful completion, the students receive the Medical Degree (Ptychion Iatrikes), which is in accordance with the EU Directive 2005/36/E and gives them access to postgraduate studies (Masters), Doctorate in Medical Science (Doctorate Diplomas) and a licence to practice the medical profession in the Public and Private Sector within European Union.
The philosophy of the programme
The philosophy of the programme puts the human resources upfront and liberates people’s creativity by transforming the School into a structure where students and teachers’ intelligence and talent are expressed, leading our students to specific goals and supporting them to reach unimaginable summits which they might not even have imagined they could reach. In this programme, the educational conditions stimulate the curiosity and creativity of students, while the professors are guiding, provoking, and trying to awaken their consciousness. Each student is linked with an academic advisor from the very first day, guiding them throughout their studies.
ONLINE EXPERIENCE
ONLINE EXPERIENCE
A SMOOTH TRANSITION TO THE NEW NORMAL
The online semesters during the COVID-19 pandemic are a huge learning experience for both professors and students as face to face interactions are replaced by headsets, laptops and phone screens. The elearning.auth.gr platform hosts the digital undergraduate and postgraduate courses of all departments of the Aristotle University, as well as courses of other structures of the Aristotle University (Lifelong Learning, School of Modern Greek Language, etc.).
AUSoM Committee
AUSoM Committee
Head of the School: Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Kyriakos Anastasiadis
Deputy Head: Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Stefanos Triaridis
Coordinator : Professor of Neurosurgery, Nikolaos Foroglou
Professor of General Pathology and Pathologic Anatomy, Prodromos Hitiroglou
Professor of Cardiology, Vasilis Vasilikos
Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology – Cardioanaesthesiology, Eleni Argyriadou
Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Michail Aivaliotis
COURSES
COURSES
Students have to pass the exams in all 83 modules (76 courses and 7 Clinical Traineeships) with a sum of 360 ECTS units. Semester duration: 15 weeks, 1 ECTS unit = 28 hours workload.
FACULTY
FACULTY
We are home to many world-leading educators, physicians, surgeons and medical scientists.
SECTORS
LABORATORIES
& DEPARTMENTS
SECTORS
LABORATORIES
& DEPARTMENTS
Aristotle University School of Medicine consists of 82 medical departments and laboratories. Browse all of them and find out more details on their mission.
