1. Administrational Guide for Medical Students at the UPMS
Hints for Freshmen
Administrational Guide for Medical Students at the UPMS

2. Technical Background Faculty website (http://aok.pte.hu)
Neptun (native and web-based platforms)
Education admin:
Enrollment/ setting student status,
booking courses, booking exam dates,
checking status, payments, grades
username for Neptun = university ID (Neptun code)
lost password → ask RO for a new one
Neptun Meet Street:
Contacting teachers, fellow students, even consultation
Sharing educational materials (up- and downloading lecture materials, home works, mid- term test results, exam sheets, etc.)
Faculty website (
Downloadable publications (timetable, program booklet, forms, schedule, etc.)
Contact details for departments/clinics and for teachers

3. Neptun

5. General Medicine 2017 or General Medicine 2018?
-all the necessary subjects transferred from Bjorknes College AND
-summer courses successfully completed (Anatomy 1 and Histology 1)
-General Medicine 2017 tuition fee: 1st semester: USD, 2nd semester: 7200 USD
General Medicine 2018:
-if a necessary subject is missing
and/or
-fail to complete both or one of the summer courses
-General Medicine 2018 tuition fee: 1st semester: USD, 2nd semester: 7750 USD

6. Transferred credits from Bjorknes College
Bjorknes course
Accepted courses in Pécs
MB 1100
Chemistry and Biochemistry
OAA-ORK
OAA-BEB
Medical Chemistry
Introduction to Biochemistry
MB 1200
Cell and Molecular Biology
OAA-MB1
OAA-MB2
Molecular Cell Biology 1
Molecular Cell Biology 2
MB 1300
Biophysics
OAA-BI1
OAA-BI2
Biophysics 1
Biophysics 2
MB1400
Society and Medicine I.
OAR-ELS
OAA-OET
First Aid
Behavioral Sciences 2 (Medical Ethics)
MB 1500
Society and Medicine II.
OAA-ANT
OAA-BML
OAA-MET
OAA-AED
Behavior Science 1 (Medical Anthropology)
Public Health 1 (The Basics of disease prevention.)
Biometrics
Public Health 2 (General Epidemiology and Demography)
MB1600
Anatomy and Physiology
OAA-AA1
OAA-SF1
Anatomy 1
Histology and Embriology 1

7. Transferred credits from Bjørknes Hoyskole
Courses in Bjørknes
Accepted courses in Pécs
An Introduction to Molecular Medicine
OAF-TCH
Technical subject
Hungarian Language
OAE-H1A
Medical Hungarian 1/A
OAE-H1B
Medical Hungarian 1/B
OAE-H2A
Medical Hungarian 2/B
OAE-H2B
Introduction to Anatomy and Histology
Technical Subject
Medical Terminology
OAF-N06
Signaling and Cancer
Physical Education
ATT1
ATT2
Physical Education 1 and 2

8. Checking Curriculum
-3rd semester courses if requirements are completed (plus Medical Communication Skills)
-Summer Practice in Hospital Care and Medical Communication Skills in the upcoming summer
-practice accepted only in accredited university teaching hospitals

9. MATRICULATION Collective enrolment August 29 Through Neptun
Check your personal data!
Fill out the matriculation card, and print it out. Submit it to the RO, signed.
If you have a problem → to Eniko (print screen)
If you want to start with a passive semester, you still need to matriculate!

10. MATRICULATION

11. Course registration Course registration in Neptun,
Signing up for the subject, and then for the course (lecture, seminar, practice if available, to a specific group. T0 – technical group: the course directors will put students to a group)
Courses based on each other → see prerequisites (curriculum)
If you have any problem → with a print screen to Eniko

12. Course registration via Neptun

13. Enrollment in the later semesters
Later semesters: enrolling (decision on continuing / suspending studies): in Neptun
Active semester: book subjects, attend classes, take exams, get grades and credit points – pay tuition fee
Passive semester: no classes, no exams, no grades, status suspended – no tuition fee (if you passivate within the registration period)
Once you activated your semester and change your mind – you can ask for late passivation until the given deadline, but you need to pay 40 % + pro rata of the tuition fee (min. 52%).

14. Studies – A general overview

15. Credit System RULES - 1 credit = 14 class hours (generally…)
- „credit points’” for each educational component/subject
RULES
credit = 14 class hours (generally…)
Collect at least the minimum number of credits to get the degree (360 points)
20/40 rule: Complete 20 (15 obligatory) in the first 2 active semesters and 40 (20 obligatory) in the first 4 active ones (credit transfer may confuse this → if you are not sure, contact RO)
only 6 chances (in sum) to pass a subject, and you can sign up for a course maximum 3 times
Get 30 ± 3 credits in each semesters (optimal progression)
Prerequisites: subjects are built on each other (max. 3 prerequisite subjects for each)
Recommended curriculum: contains the obligatory components and criterion requirements for each semester

16. Recommended curriculum
Only obligatory subjects and criterion requirements!
→ English → Administration→ Registrar’s Office → Booklets and Curricula → „Recommended curriculum 2017 or 2018” under your major + „course descriptions”

17. Recommended curriculum

18. Types of courses
Obligatory subjects: a course-unit the completion of which is required from each and every student of the programme (80% of the total number of credits)
Elective and Optional subjects: (15% + 5%= 34+18)
Criterion requirement: a requirement to be fulfilled obligatorily to which no credit is allocated. (summer practices, physical education, language requirement)
Exam courses:
when granted the end of semester signature
can’t attend classes, only exam
pre-scheduled exam (only in fall semester): first three days of the registration period; if it’s successfull student can take up courses, based on that course

19. Course description

20. Lånekassen 6 years of support
As long as you follow the recommended curriculum, you will get the support
UPMS: every student is full time (even with two credit points)

21. Studies – The school year

22. The School Year
School year ( ) 10 months: September – July Exact dates always on the website of the RO (Announcements)
Fall Semester
September – January
Spring Semester
February – July
1. Registration period: 2 weeks
enrolling/matriculation,
booking courses
1. Registration period: last week of previous exam period
enrolling, booking courses
2. Instruction period: 14 weeks
classes, mid-term attendance, papers…
2. Instruction period: 14 weeks
1 week extra: Easter holiday
classes, mid-term attendance, papers…
3. Exam period: 7 weeks
3. Exam period: 7 weeks

23. Timetable

24. Timetable 1. Capital letter  lectures
2. Small letter  practices and seminars
* odd week
**even week
Contains only the obligatory subjects
Groups: appr. 25 people
attending practices and seminars in groups
Group leader / year representative

25. Completing a course
End of semester signature (testifying attendance in course) only electronic signature in Neptun; if denied, you cannot take exam!
Absence
from less than 15% of the classes of the course-unit cannot be condemned for absence (unless the course director informed the students about stricter expectations in the course description or in writing at the beginning of the semester)
between 15 and 25%, course director shall decide on accepting the semester
reaches 25% (for any reason, with or without a certified excuse) you cannot be granted entry to examination.
The course director can refuse to give electronic signature for other reasons announced at the beginning of the semester – e.g. missing a mid-term task or assignment – and can allow the student to make up for it until the end of the second week of the examination period. - See conditions/expectations for acceptance of the semester.

26. Dismissing or Terminating studies
Dismissal
Using 6 chances and not passing the subject
Signing up 3 times for a subject and not completing it
Did not set semester active after 2 passive semesters in Neptun
20 (15 obligatory) / 40 (20 obligatory) credits
Terminating (exmatriculation)
on request (write request)

27. Financials

28. Tuition fee 1
To be paid for active semesters. (Active but no courses → 40% and only by request)
Pay by bank transfer or at the cashier in USD
notification about payment details appr. 2-3 weeks before semester start
Deadline for payment: August 13 (40%) and October 15 (60%)
Proof to be submitted to the RO
Tution fee contract later.

29. Tuition fee 2 Delayed payment
For those, who pay their fee from loan and it’s not received until the enrolment.
Request forms: → English → Administration → Registrar’s Office → Downloads and Forms
Submitting to the RO until 13 August 2018
Delayed payment until 15 October in fall semester, until 15 March in spring semester .

30. Reduction Reduction can be granted from the basic amount
– by application!
Reduction based on social needs: in special circumstances and only with written proof in English
After two completed semesters:
Reduction based on number of credits (twice during the studies)
Reduction based on academic achievement (only for the fall semester)

31. Service fees and penalties
Paid at cashiers in HUF, cash or via Neptun
missing deadlines (pay tuition fee, submit proof about payment, late registration for courses)
Repeated retake exam fee (exam or final exam) – 4900HUF
unjustified exam absences – 4900HUF

32. Repeated retake exam fee

33. QUESTIONS?

34. Thanks for your attention.