Informations for new students

Dear students,

welcome to our M.Sc. Medical Photonics programme. By now most of you have already made the trip to Jena. Hopefully, you have found some room to stay and managed to do get around in Jena. If you need help in organizing the new phase of your life in Jena, please refer to the website of the International Office of the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. Here, you will find some useful checklists you should consider before and after your arrival in Jena and some general information about living in Jena. To faciltate a good start of your studies the International Office offers also mentoring programmes.

On this webpage you find information about additional activities the organizers of the M.Sc. Medical Photonics programme are offering to you. This includes an orientation meeting on October 4th and pre-courses in Mathematics and Chemitry. Students, who have little knowledge in mathematics and/or chemistry are strongly advised to attend to the lectures and work on the exercises. The kowledge taught in these courses will be needed throughout the programme. More information on these precourses can be found below.

Map of the Theoretical Institutes of the Medical Faculty (1 = Institute of Anatomy, 2 = Institute of Physiology I, 3 = Institutes of Biochemistry, 4 = Lecture hall \ — Map of the Theoretical Institutes of the Medical Faculty (1 = Institute of Anatomy, 2 = Institute of Physiology I, 3 = Institutes of Biochemistry, 4 = Lecture hall "Eichplatz", 5 = Institute of Physiology II, 6 = Former Institute of Human Genetics + Lecture hall, 7 = Institute of Immunology)

Introduction / Orientation meetings

On October 4th, at 10.00 a.m. we will organize a small kick-off meeting, which will give you the possibility to meet your peer students and get important information about the M.Sc. programme. The meeting will be organized in presence in the lecture hall of the former Institute of Human Genetics (see the map to the right. For a more detailed secription follow this link).

Those of you who are not yet in Jena will have the possibility to participate in the meeting via zoom. Folllow this link:

Link: https://uni-jena-de.zoom.us/j/65423050693

Meeting ID: 654 2305 0693
Passcode: 921668

You can log in 15 minutes before the start time.

Slides shown in the meeting will be available here.

On Friday, October 14th at 15.30 p.m. a meeting with one of the student representative will take place. Meeting point is inside the historic courtyard of the Medical Theoretical Institutes in front of the lecture hall of the former Institute of Human Genetics (see the map to the right). The student representative will try to answer all your questions you might have about our program and about living in Jena. She will give you an account of how wonderful it is to be a student of M.Sc. Medical Photonics, and she will give you a small sightseeing tour showing you the most important places in Jena (out of a student's perspective.). Thus, do not miss this event.

On October 17th (9.30 a.m.) a kick-off meeting will be organized to tackle last minute problems before the semester starts. The meeting takes place in the lecture hall in the former Institute of Human Genetics.

Pre-Course "Mathematical Methods"

To start the M.Sc. programme successfully, basic knowledge in mathematics is important. To provide you with the necessary basics an optional pre-course in mathematics is available online Information about the content of the course can be found in the module catalogue. The link to the course will be here.

Pre-Course "Chemistry"

To have a good start in the M.Sc. programme, also basic knowledge in chemistry is important. To provide you with the necessary basics an optional pre-course in chemistry starts, parallel to the pre-course in mathematics. More details about this module can be found here soon. Please, take also advantage of our self-assessment test to see if you should participate in this course. The test can be found here. The password will be sent to you via e-mail. The course can be found here.