The selection of students is made in accordance with the current legislation and the provisions of the Postgraduate Studies Regulation.
Every May, by decision of the Study Program Committee (SPC), an announcement for the admission of postgraduate students to the IPPS MP-RP is published and posted on the website of the IPPS MP-RP and the collaborating Departments and Institutions.
This announcement also states the number of students whose dissertations will be supervised during the third academic semester by each Medical School/ Department of the collaborating Universities (indicatively: 3 postgraduate students each from the Collaborating Departments of Medicine and the rest by the Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens).
Candidates must indicate in their initial application the Medical Schools in which they wish to prepare their thesis in order of preference.
The relevant applications with the necessary supporting documents are submitted to the Secretariat of the IPPS MP-RP, within a deadline specified in the announcement and may be extended by a decision of the SPC.
The necessary supporting documents are:
1. Application form
2. Curriculum vitae (CV)
3. Copy of degree or certificate of completion of studies
4. Certificate of analytical score of undergraduate courses
5. Publications in peer-reviewed journals, if any
6. Evidence of professional or research activity, if any
7. Phototype of two sides of the identity card (ID)
8. Reference Letters
9. Very good command in English, Level B2
Graduates from foreign institutions must submit their recognition or start the process of recognition of the basic degree by the Hellenic National Academic Recognition Information Center (NARIC), in accordance with art. 34, para. 7 of Law 4485/17 and art. 101, par. 5 of Law 4547/18.
The selection of the candidates is carried out by a selection committee – which consists of at least one representative from each institution and is appointed by the CC – based on the following criteria:
- Degree grade at a rate of 10%
- Performance in undergraduate courses and diploma thesis related to the subject of IPPS MP-RP at a rate of 10%
- Research activity – Publications at a rate of 10%
- Reference Letters at a rate of 10%
- Oral Interview at a rate of 30%
- Performance in the entrance exam for the IPPS MP-RP (when held) at a rate of 30%. In case that entrance exams are not held, this percentage is divided among the rest criteria according to their rate.
The selection committee is responsible for the evaluation of postgraduate candidates and ranks them in order of success. Based on the overall criteria, the CC, after a recommendation of the selection committee, compiles the student evaluation table and submits it for approval to SPC.
The candidates selected shall be registered at the Secretariat of the IPPS MP-RP before the beginning of the IPPS courses.
Candidates with the same rank are accepted as supernumerary at a rate not exceeding 10% of the maximum number of entrants.
In the case of non-registration of one or more selected candidates, the runners-up, if any, will be invited to enroll in the Program, based on their order in the approved evaluation table.
