Medicine

Medical studies take six years (ten semesters + 1 year internship). For foreign students the language of instruction is English. However, foreign students are required to learn Hungarian in order to be able to communicate with patients from the third year on. Those students who are fluent in Hungarian may join the Hungarian Program of the Medical School.

 

BLOCKS AND SUBJECTS

During the first two years the curriculum focuses on theoretical aspects of medicine that lay the foundation for subsequent medical subjects.

 

Subjects Credit hours Biophysics 105 Medical Chemistry 151 First Aid and Reanimation 21 Medical Psychology 20 Hungarian Language 120 Anatomy, Histology, Embriology 296 Molecular Biology 71 Cell Biology 75 Biochemistry 176 Physiology 211 Neurobiology 128

 

In the 3rd year, disciplines exploring the theoretical foundations of diseases, as well as the preliminaries of internal medicine and surgery are taught.

 

Subjects Credit hours Patholgy 165 Immunology 60 Clinical Biochemistry 118 Microbiology 110 Prop. Internal Medicine 60 Basic Surgical Techniques 40 Medical Psychology 30 Basic Oncology 13 Medical Hungarian Language 60 Internal Medicine (Immunology, Rheumatology) 45 Prop. Of Surgery 45 Clinical Physiology 47

In the 4th and 5th years training in pharmacology begins and the study of clinical subjects continues.

Subjects Credit hours Pharmacology 119 Internal Medicine (Cardiology) 49 Preventive Medicine 171 Orthopedics 35 Radiology 21 Surgery 63 Obstetrics and Gynecology 63 Traumatology 35 Bioethics 14 Stomatology 33 Clinical Genetics 21 Internal Medicine (Endocrinology, Nephrology) 49 Urology 35 Pulmonology 42 Radiology and Nuclear Medicine 42 Internal Medicine (Gastroenterology, Metabolism) 98 Dermatology 55 Oxyology 42 Pediatrics 91 Neurology 70 Psychiatry 77 Forensic Medicine 56 Family Medicine 10 Otolaryngology 35 Ophthalmology 35 Intensive Anesthesiology 33 Infectology 35 Clinical Oncology 21

FINAL EXAMINATIONS
During the 6th and final year students take their final examinations in internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, neurology, psychiatry and pediatrics.

Internal Medicine 10 weeks Pedicatrics 7 weeks Surgery 5 weeks Obstetrisc and Gynecology 5 weeks Neurology 4 weeks Psychiatry 4 weeks Preparatory Period for the State Examination 1 month

Each final exam is preceded by a two or three month internship period. Students in the final year are required to submit a thesis. The last academic year is concluded with a comprehensive final state examination in which the future medical doctors must demonstrate their competence in the most important practical and theoretical aspects of general medicine. Students having passed all examinations and having successfully defended their theses are granted an M.D. degree.

ELECTIVE COURSES

Required elective courses form a part of the undergraduate training in general medicine. These are, in the Clinical Sciences, based on clinical reality, and practical issues and aspects of direct patient care e.g., patient management, therapeutics and diagnostics. For the Theoretical Sciences these electives are based on aspects of basic research, social sciences, economic and legal sciences.