Evaluation System

The subject of Public Health I is divided into two collateral courses; aVLOZ0141p (for theoretical lectures) and aVLOZ0141c (for practical seminars) that took place simultaneously during the 1st semester (1st year) of the General Medicine study program. The student is entitled to acquire 2 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) credits upon the successful completion of the course evaluation requirements.

The two courses of Public Health I are mutually dependent which means that the student has to acquire the 1 ECTS credit of the seminars (aVLOZ0141c ) in order to be qualified for the final (written) exam of the entire subject which will award them the second 1 ECTS credit.

The evaluation system of the seminars (aVLOZ0141c ) consists of 12 points that are claimable through attending (and active participation in) the seminars and successful fulfilment of the seminars assignments. Attendance (and active participation) of each seminar will award the student 1 point and the successful fulfilment of each assignment will award the student 1 point. The student is entitled to set for the final exam if they achieve 9 out of 12 points.

Attendance

You are expected to attend all the seminars on time.

Late coming is defined as the arrival to the seminar room 5 minutes later than the scheduled time of the seminar. Latecomers are not entitled to enter the seminar room without a prospective excuse. On extraordinary occasions, latecomers without prospective apologies may enter the seminar room, and such permission is up to the discretion of the seminar tutor on a case-by-case basis.

The location of your seminar room is precisely mentioned in your academic timetable.

Assignments

The assignments aim to provide a self-assessment tool for the students to evaluate their own performance in studying the respective module's content. Therefore, the students are highly encouraged to resolve the assignments trustworthily and after preparing sufficiently for them.

Each assignment contains 20 multiple choice questions (MCQ) with a single correct answer. The questions cover the part that had been discussed during the seminar with the tutor and the part that had been assigned to self-study.

The students will have one week after the seminar's week to submit their assignments. If the student did not achieve the passing score of the assignment (70%), they will be entitled to repeat it in December. If the students did not submit their assignment on time, they will still be able to submit one week after the original deadline, but they will not have an opportunity to re-take the assignment in case of failure.

Please note that the assignment application (ROPOT) is a single log-in application; therefore, you will be required to finish your assignment once you open the application.

Assignments

Study Materials

The resources of this course (aVLOZ0141c ) include required resources which are compulsory reading for the final (written) examination preparation as well as for the assignments and recommended resources which are suggested to aid the students in understanding the course content.

The required resources include:

• FLETCHER, Grant. Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials. 6th ed. Wolters Kluwer Health, 2020. 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-9751-0955-4. info
• Multiple scholarly articles which are specified in each module's syllabus.

The recommended resources include:

• Bonita R, Beaglehole R, Kjellström: Basic epidemiology. 2nd edition. Geneva - Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2006. 212 pages. ISBN 978-92-4-154707-9.
• U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice: Third Edition. An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics. October 2006 - Updated May 2012. SELF-STUDY Course SS1978

Practice Results

The results of the seminars evaluation will be displayed here in December 2021.