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MDA4030 - Third Comprehensive Medical Exam Link Ålesund

About

New from the academic year 2023/2024

Examination arrangement

Examination arrangement: Written and oral exam
Grade: Passed / Not Passed

Evaluation Weighting Duration Grade deviation Examination aids
Oral exam 1/2 2 hours
School exam 1/2 6 hours

Course content

In phase 2, the emphasis shifts from basic science to clinical subjects. During the first semester of the third year, students have their first encounter with hospital clinics, although they also continue to have lectures and teaching activities covering basic science and theoretical background. Most internal medicine and surgical subjects are covered in the 2AB course.

During the academic year, students will encounter clinical scenarios from the internal medicine disciplines of endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, cardiology and pulmonary medicine, well as the surgical disciplines of endocrine surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, vascular surgery, orthopedics (including injury/acute), urology and cardiothoracic surgery.

Additionally, the students will also meet clinical issues in oncology, geriatrics and anaesthesiology

Alongside the above-mentioned clinical disciplines, teaching is given in pathology, microbiology, pharmacology, medical biochemistry, epidemiology and clinical decision-making, imaging, immunology and transfusion medicine. Emphasis will be placed on connecting the basic science subjects, paraclinical subjects and scientific competence with the clinical teaching.

In addition, there will be teaching in the longitudinal themes "Scientific competence", "Health promotion and prevention" and "Communication, patient contact and professionalism" which run throughout the entire medical degree programme.

This course is the decentralized version of the course MDT4030. The prerequisites, assessment methods and learning objectives are identical, although the teaching and learning methods vary.

Learning outcome

There are several learning objectives related to the semester subjects. These objectives are available at the "Læringsutbyttedatabasen" at the faculty`s home page.

Learning methods and activities

  • Problem-based learning (PBL)
  • Lectures
  • Courses
  • Seminars
  • Team-based learning (TBL)
  • Clinical rotation in the Hospital

Learning activities takes place at Ålesund Campus and Ålesund Hospital. A very high degree of student activity is planned both in clinical teaching with patients and in theoretical teaching. The students must come prepared to learning activities and are assigned to carry out consultations under supervision or to solve theoretical tasks in small groups before these are reviewed in plenary sessions.

The PBL teaching has the same content as in MDT4030. Students enrolled in MDA4030 do not attend lectures, but students have access to teaching materials from the course MDT4030.

Compulsory assignments

  • Mandatory PBL-meetings
  • Scheduled clinical rotation
  • Mandatory attendance at classes, two full days, with the theme "interdisciplinary interaction"

Further on evaluation

Compulsory activities

Compulsory activity is assessed as approved or not approved and consists of the following three components.

  1. Mandatory PBL meetings
  2. Mandatory attendance at clinical teaching
  3. Compulsory attendance at classes with the theme "interdisciplinary interaction" or equivalent.

A maximum of 15% unauthorized absence from this teaching is permitted.

The exam

The exam consists of two parts

  1. Written exam, 4 hours
  2. Oral exam, OSCE

Both parts 1) and 2) must be passed for the exam to be passed.

The students who do not pass the exam will have to resit only the part of the exam they did not pass, i.e. either the oral or the written exam or both.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Medical studies (CMED)

Required previous knowledge

Admission to CMED and successfully completed 2 year of medical school (MD4020).

Course materials

Course materiel will be available on Blackboard.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From To
MD4031 60.0 AUTUMN 2023
MDT4030 60.0 AUTUMN 2023
MDL4030 60.0 AUTUMN 2023
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Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  60.0 SP
Study level: Third-year courses, level III

Coursework

Term no.: 1
Teaching semester:  AUTUMN 2023

Term no.: 2
Teaching semester:  SPRING 2024

Language of instruction: Norwegian

Location: Ålesund , Trondheim

Subject area(s)
  • Medicine
Contact information
Course coordinator:

Department with academic responsibility
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Timetable

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Examination

Examination arrangement: Written and oral exam

Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
Spring ORD School exam 1/2 2024-05-22 09:00 INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
C218 Ankeret/Hovedbygget 20
Spring ORD Oral exam 1/2 2024-05-28
Room Building Number of candidates
Summer UTS School exam 1/2 INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
Summer UTS Oral exam 1/2
Room Building Number of candidates
  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
Examination

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