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Medical Physics - Radiation Physics

OBLIGATIONS AND RIGHTS OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

1. Postgraduate students have all the rights and benefits provided for students of the 1st cycle of study (meal card, student ticket, reduced costs of participation in certain cultural and recreational events, insurance through the University) except the right to provide free textbooks.
The Institution is obliged to ensure that students with disabilities and/or special needs have access to the proposed texts and teaching. The Accessibility Unit of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens was established and operates with the decision of the University Senate dated February 23, 2006 and the decision of the Rector's Council dated March 22, 2006. Its task is to ensure in practice equal access to academic studies for students with different abilities and requirements, through the provision of adaptations to the environment, Supportive IT Technologies and Access Services.
2. Postgraduate students are invited to participate and attend seminars of research groups, discussions of bibliographic information, visits of laboratories, conferences / workshops with a subject related to that of the IPPS, lectures or other scientific events of the IPPS, etc.
3. For the student of the IPPS MP-RP with the highest average grade in the courses of the first two semesters (in case of a tie with the highest grade in the course of Nuclear Medicine Physics) a scholarship equal to the tuition fees of all three semesters is provided, provided that they do not exceed the total amount of 2,000 euros, within the framework of the Prize in memory of Professor Charalambos Proukakis,  founder of the Laboratory of Medical Physics of the Medical School of National and Kapodistrina University of Athens and of the IPPS "Medical Physics – Radiation Physics" in 1994. 
4. The SPC, following the recommendation of the CC, may decide to delete postgraduate students:
•    if they exceed the maximum number of absences
•    if they have failed a course or courses examination and have not successfully completed the program
•    if they exceed the maximum duration of study at the MSc, as defined in this Regulation,
•    if they have violated the written provisions regarding the treatment of disciplinary offenses by the competent disciplinary bodies,
•    automatically at the request of postgraduate students,
•    if they do not pay the prescribed tuition fee
5. Students of IPPS MP-RP are exempted from tuition fees, whose individual income, if they have the same income, and the equivalent family available income do not independently exceed one hundred percent (100%) of the individual, and the family seventy percent (70%) of the national median disposable equivalent income, according to the most recent data published each time by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.). This exemption is granted for participation in a single IPPS. In any case, the exempted students do not exceed the percentage of thirty percent (30%) of the total number of students admitted to the IPPS MP-RP. If the beneficiaries exceed the percentage of the previous paragraph, they are selected in order of ranking starting from those with the lowest income (article 35, par. 2, Law 4485/17).
6. At the end of each semester, each course and each teacher are evaluated by the postgraduate students. The results of the evaluation of the students regarding the entire Postgraduate Program and its activities will be posted on the website of the program. The results of the evaluation of each teacher will be shared to him/ her.
7. The inauguration takes place in the context of the Assembly of the Medical School in the presence of the President of the Medical School.
8. A Postgraduate Degree is not awarded to a student whose first-cycle degree from a foreign institution has not been recognized by the Hellenic National Academic Recognition Information Center (NARIC), according to Law 3328/2005 (A ́ 80).
9. Postgraduate students can apply for a diploma supplement
10. For their participation in the IPPS MP-RP, postgraduate students pay tuition fees amounting to two thousand euros (€ 2,000) corresponding to seven hundred and fifty euros (€ 750) for each of the first two semesters and five hundred euros (€ 500) for the third semester corresponding to the Master’s thesis. The fee is paid at the beginning of each semester.