Checklist for the start of your studies
Before the first day of your education, you need to take some important steps.
1.Reply to your offer
If you have been admitted to a course or programme, or been placed on a waiting list, you must reply to your first admissions notification to keep your place. If you don't wish to keep your place, you should decline your offer. In doing so, you free up your place to someone who is on the waiting list. You reply to your offer by logging in to your account at Universityadmissions.se by 20 july 2026.
2.Activate your user account and MFA
As a new student, you need to activate your user account (your UMU-id) approximately two weeks prior to the start of the semester.
With your user account you can:
- register for courses
- access the internet in computer labs and the university's wireless network
- submit assignments and verify your study results
- access your student e-mail
If you are a new student, you will automatically receive a user account when you are admitted, but you will need to activate it for it to function properly. You will not be able to activate it until approximately two weeks prior to the start of the semester.
Exchange student or tuition fee paying student
If you are an exchange student or tuition fee paying student, you will receive an email with instructions on how to activate your account.
Install MFA for a more secure login
To increase security and reduce the risk of unauthorised access to your information or account, students must enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to log in to various systems, such as Canvas and the Student Web.
I want to activate my user account and install MFA
Help! It´s not working
If you are having problems activating your account or logging in, please contact our Servicedesk. You will find answers to common questions, and can submit enquiries.
3.Course registration
You need to be registered for the course in the study documentation system LADOK in order to keep your place (seat) and to have your results recorded during the course.
To be able to sign in to register online, you need to have activated your Umu-id account.
4.Course start
2026-09-04
08:15
The schedule is preliminary until four weeks before the course starts
The course provides an orientation to medical concepts and nomenclature with examples from medical technology in healthcare to provide a familiarity with medical terminology during own literature studies and when communicating with healthcare personnel.
The course covers the structure of the human body and the function of the most important organs as well as the structure and kinetics of the cell. The course also provides an introduction to ethics in medical research.
Finally, tumor diseases, tumor induction and cancer incidence are treated, as well as oncological treatment strategies. The course also provides an introduction to medical physics through a small project work in medical technology at the end of the course period.
Course Manager:
Nina Sundström
Tel.: +46 90785 40 28
E-post: Nina.Sundstrom@regionvasterbotten.se
Study Administrator:
Linda Forsell
linda.forsell@umu.se
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