POSTGRADUATE STUDIES

For decades the University of Zagreb School of Medicine has been providing a wide range of postgraduate courses in biomedicine and health, organized as postgraduate academic (scientific) studies and postgraduate professional studies (now called postgraduate specialist programmes).

Until 2000 the teaching of postgraduate academic studies for the attainment of the academic degree of Master of Science was organized through mandatory courses and electives for a period of at least two years, preparing the students for the presentation of the master’s thesis. With the new legal provisions for research and higher education passed in July 2003, the former program for the master’s degree was abolished.

In the year 2002/2003 the Doctoral Study in Biomedicine and Health Sciences was established