5th year did not present with any form of assessment. The below refers to 6th year.

Class Presentation

At the end of the classes in 6th year, students are split into small groups to do a presentation on a selected topic in front of their peers. The Head of the Department will be listening to your presentation. He varies between interjecting during the presentation and waiting until the end to ask questions or correct on particularities. Doing well on the presentation is a requirement to pass the course.

If your presentation is unsatisfactory, the Head will have you do another one on a a different subject.

Final Exam (11th Semester)

The 6th year Family Medicine blocks take place in the Winter semester, and last 2 weeks in total, making it possible to take this exam as your first final during the winter semester, as long as all students have completed the course and presentations. Many preferred this because the exam schedule then is less crowded towards the end of the year.

Requirements: 

• Have all (but one) classes accredited (incl. absences!)

• Passing the presentation

• Completing all homework

Preparation: We were informed beforehand that we will get exam questions from lectures and seminars. About a month before the final, the department provided our class representative with PDF's of all lectures and seminars. Studying these properly as well as the materials on Blackboard was sufficient. The relevant topics were listed on the department website.

2 types of questions: The exam at the end of the course consists of two types of questions: Multiple choice questions (50) and open questions (5). In previous years, the MCQ's have also contained the addition of fill-ins (i.e. charts).

Outline: The MCQ questions were challenging and mostly medium to long length. They were made up of mainly cases, some of which included laboratory results to interpret, while a few questions were rather straight-forward. The open questions were short and simple, asking us to describe, list, highlight/underline mistakes, or break down abbreviations and parameters. The exam lasted for 100 minutes, which we felt was just about enough.

Writing: Each student was given a question booklet and an answer sheet. The open questions were answered directly in the booklet, while answers in the MCQ-part were registered on a separate answer sheet. There were two different sets of the exam. To guarantee objectivity, the questions in both versions were the same, but in different order.

Passing: The requirement to pass the exam is 60% out of 60 points. The total is calculated by adding the scores from both the MCQ part (50 points) and the open part (10 points) together. Results were published 3 days after the exam. The fail grade in our year was around 25%. Additionally, 3 days after the results were announced, insight was granted at the department. We found was that they did not want long explanations in the open part, as simple, single-line answers were often enough.