Call for applications 2024-25
13 May 2024
The Schools of Medicine AUTh and History and Ethnology DUTh announce forty (40) positions for postgraduate students for the academic year 2024-2025 in the Joint Postgraduate Programme
The subject of the Joint Postgraduate Programme “History of Medicine and Biological Anthropology: Health, Disease and Natural Selection” is the study of the evolution of medicine and its inclusion in a wider social and cultural context. Determinants of health and disease are revealed through social and scientific research in both epidemic and chronic diseases. It clarifies how the study of history can aid in a sophisticated understanding of a wide range of questions and dilemmas in modern medicine.
Dear candidates
The School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the School of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace are co-organizing a new Postgraduate Studies Programme entitled History of Medicine and Biological Anthropology: Health, Disease and Natural Selection.
The object of the Programme is the study of the evolution of medicine and its inclusion in a wider social and cultural context through the prism of human evolution and the interaction of diseases with socio-cultural practices and the adaptability of human populations to new environments.
The Programme aims to promote research and produce new knowledge in the science of the History of Medicine and Biological Anthropology through its interdisciplinary approach from related sciences, such as Epidemiology, Pharmacology, Paleopharmacology, the study of Ancient and Modern Greek Medicine, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Human Evolution, Paleopathology, Paleonutrition, Paleogenetics and Paleodemography.
The Postgraduate Programme for the first time unites scientific disciplines that are characterized by strong interdisciplinarity, production of pioneering knowledge and scientific training, at a time when the need for the development of modern study programs that respond to the economic and social changes occurring both in Greece and abroad is extremely intense.
The specialization of graduates of the Programme is carried out by the operation of two directions:
a. History of Medicine
b. Biological Anthropology
Through the two directions, a wide range of knowledge subjects is covered which offers the specialization required to cover a real gap in the Greek academic community, in these subjects, and to promote its graduates with a high level of specialization in the labor market. The convergence of the positive and theoretical sciences in the use of interdisciplinary methods of approaching historical phenomena and how the study of history and anthropology can help in the sophisticated understanding of a wide range of questions and dilemmas of the modern era is the challenge of the Programme.
Alongside,
we provide students with the opportunity to participate in a Postgraduate Studies Programme, the subject of which is offered for the first time in the Greek academic community,
we utilize and teach a range of new techniques and technologies, the learning and certification of which students could only acquire abroad until now,
we offer many opportunities to participate in research programs – an important goal of the coordinators of the Programme – with the aim of acquiring research experience so that they become capable of producing new knowledge either through conducting independent research or through their collaboration with research institutions active in the Greek or the European area.
The information/regulation page presents the operating regulations of the DPMS as well as a section of the expert scientists and colleagues who will teach at the DPMS. In the future, this website will be an information platform for the operation of the Programme as well as for the detailed educational and research work carried out in it.
On behalf of the Study Programme Committee
The Schools of Medicine AUTh and History and Ethnology DUTh announce forty (40) positions for postgraduate students for the academic year 2024-2025 in the Joint Postgraduate Programme
The Schools of Medicine AUTh and History and Ethnology DUTh announce thirty-five (35) positions for postgraduate students for the academic year 2023-2024 in the Joint Postgraduate Programme
The Schools of Medicine AUTh and History and Ethnology DUTh announce thirty-five (35) positions for postgraduate students for the academic year 2022-2023 in the Joint Postgraduate Programme
The number of admissions per year is limited to a maximum of forty (40) postgraduate students. 20 positions are announced for the specialization “History of Medicine”. 20 positions are announced for the specialization “Biological Anthropology”.
The Programme, following a decision of the Study Programme Committee (SPC), announces positions through an open process. In particular, the invitation states the conditions for admission, number of admissions, categories of candidates, method of admission, selection criteria, etc., the deadlines for submitting applications as well as the supporting documents required.
The announcement of the admission of postgraduate students is published on the websites of the cooperating Schools. Applications accompanied by the necessary supporting documents are submitted to the Programme Secretariat, in electronic format.
The admissions selection criteria include…
The subject of the Programme is the study of the evolution of Medicine and its inclusion in a wider social and cultural context. Determinants of health and disease are revealed through social and scientific research in both epidemic and chronic diseases. It clarifies how the study of history can aid in a sophisticated understanding of a wide range of questions and dilemmas in modern medicine. Medical texts from primary sources are studied and their peculiarities are identified. Aspects of biological anthropology are developed that relate to the reconstruction of the history of geography and the evolution of disease through the lens of human evolution while analyzing the impact of disease on human development, the interaction between disease and socio-cultural practices as well as the adaptability of populations to new environments. Human skeletal remains of mainly archaeological origin are studied. Of particular interest are comparisons of disease prevalence between ancient and modern populations. The fields of the history of human health sciences are covered (ancient medicine, medical specialties, epidemiology, pharmacology and paleopharmacology, modern Greek medicine, the practice of medicine in relation to gender and gender equality, etc.) and the fields of biological anthropology (human evolution, osteology, palaeopathology, palaeonutrition, palaeogenetics and palaeodemography) as well as the innovative techniques of their study such as ancient DNA, stable isotopes, microscopy and geometric morphometry.
Objectives of the Postgraduate Programme “History of Medicine and Biological Anthropology: Health, Disease and Natural Selection” are:
The Joint Postgraduate Programme of Studies “History of Medicine and Biological Anthropology: Health, Disease and Natural Selection” is credited with a total of 90 ECTS according to the European Credit System. It includes two semesters of full-time study, while in the third semester the master’s thesis is prepared. The curriculum includes five (5) compulsory core courses in the 1st semester with 6 credits each. In the second semester, students are invited to choose a specialization either in the History of Medicine or in Biological Anthropology and the four (4) corresponding mandatory courses of each direction are taught with 7.5 credits each. In the 3rd semester, a master’s thesis is prepared, which has 30 credits. The total number of credits (ECTS) of the DPMS is 90, with 1 ECTS unit corresponding to 25 hours of workload.
In the Joint Postgraduate Programme of Studies “History of Medicine and Biological Anthropology: Health, Disease and Natural Selection” tuition fees are set at the amount of two thousand four hundred euros (€2,400) for each study cycle. Postgraduate students are obliged to pay them, according to the regulations of the Postgraduate Studies Regulation. Their payment is made in two equal installments: upon initial registration at the Programme (October), and the second before the start of the 2nd semester (March). Tuition fees are paid to the Special Research Funds Account of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki A.U.Th. The delinquent payment of the financial obligations is sufficient due to non-awarding of the Diploma or deletion from the Programme.
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