History:
The medical education program has been established in the fall semester of the 1996-1997 educational term.
Qualification Awarded:
Students who successfully complete the medical education program with defined competencies and proficiencies are entitled to have awarded with the “Doctor of Medicine” (M.D.) diploma and title which corresponds to second Cycle including First Cycle Degree (One Tier Programme).
The medical education program is regulated in compliance with “Regulated Professions” legislation by EU 2005/36/EC Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications.
Medical education program is also in compliance with “Statement on the Bologna Process and Medical Education” (2005, WFME and AMEE; World Federation for Medical Education, Association for Medical Education in Europe) declaration that the two-cycle structure should be implemented as a long, integrated, one-tier program in which completion of the first cycle does not authorize any special use or employability of the bachelor.
The medical education program consists of six full-time years with 360 ECTS in total corresponding to 1800 hours of student workload/ year (6x1800=10800 hours in total), of which at least 51 % (5500 hours) is contact hours.
