Bachelor in Medicine (MD) - University of Nicosia (UNIC)

• Train students to become highly competent physicians and equip them with the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable them to respond to the challenges of modern medicine.
• Produce competent and caring graduates, safe to practise initially as junior doctors, and with the potential to develop fully their careers in their chosen branch of medicine.
• Provide each student with the evidence-based knowledge and experience necessary to advance both scientifically and humanistically in the care and treatment of those who are ill including immediate care of medical emergencies.
• Foster the development of lifelong commitments to scholarship and service toward individual patients and the community.
• Encourage students to practise medicine holistically including ethical, legal, psychological and social considerations.
• Promote health and wellness through disease prevention and research.
• Contribute toward the establishment of Cyprus as a regional centre of excellence in medical education.

• Demonstrate knowledge of the basic, clinical, behavioural & social sciences, ethics and jurisprudence which are relevant to the study of medicine and be able to apply such knowledge in clinical practice e.g. in health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the principles and practice of public health in both individuals and populations, and acquire the ability to implement appropriate measures, independently and with others in the promotion of health, the prevention of illness and the treatment of disease.
• Demonstrate problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills in basic and clinical sciences, including research and evidence-based medicine needed for decision-making in the practice of medicine.
• Exhibit ability to integrate socio-economic and ethical issues along various phases in learning related to the practice of medicine and management/ treatment modalities.
• Recognise the importance of the therapeutic nature of the patient-doctor relationship and the impact on that relationship of the individual characteristics of both patient and doctor.

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