18 months
Duration
90
ECTS
English
Language
Overview
The aim of the Programme is to develop eventually into an international Joint Master’s Degree Programme, bringing together a Consortium of Institutions from various countries, with the aspiration to contribute to the advancement of Medical Physics education and research, promoting the accumulated knowledge and practical skills towards the advancement and promotion of innovative diagnostic and therapeutic systems, methods and protocols, based on the utilization of faster and higher precision quality imaging and the exploration of all therapeutic methods and systems, including the usage of proton/ion beams for the treatment of carcinogenic and other diseases.
Adopting a properly accredited master level program of studies in Medical Physics and Diagnostic Imaging, the Programme aspires to share and disseminate the latest developments in the conventional areas of nuclear radiation, radioisotopes, medical dosimetry and scanning devices, together with the state of the art diagnostic and therapeutic systems, combining the various modalities to extract very fast and accurate imaging information serving to follow the fighting of cancer by all possible means (immune therapies, surgery, chemotherapy, irradiation of cancer cells by particles/ions.
The graduate Programme in Medical Physics and Diagnostic Imaging is mainly addressed to:
- (1) Graduates with BSc or MSc degree in physics, awarded by an accredited university of any country.
- (2) Graduates of an accredited university or a higher education institution, who have completed a BSc or an MSc degree in other equivalent subjects, in the areas of pure and applied sciences, engineering, medicine, information technology, or with a secondary degree in physics.
- (3) Of particular importance is the enrolment in the Programme of special groups of students, who are either excelling in their studies (provided with full or partial fellowships) or subsidized by international foundations affiliated with COSMOS University (for example Middle East foundations, municipal and communities’ organizations, diaspora fellowships, etc.).
The programme’s duration is 1.5 years (18 months). To qualify for the «Master’s degree in Medical Physics», each student will be required to complete 90 ECTS units in total. There are nine (9) compulsory courses. The postgraduate Programme, which is considered as «Academic», is provided to students using the distance education methodology (blended learning mode).
The Programme is completed within three (3) semesters and each semester provides a load corresponding to thirty (30) ECTS units. During the first semester of the first year, four (4) compulsory courses are offered, of 7.5 ECTS units each. In the second semester five (5) more compulsory courses are offered, including a course in Research Methodology (all 6.0 ECTS units). During the third semester the students are obliged to write a master’s thesis credited with 30 ECTS units.