Clinical practice 6th year (clerkship)

The exam will be organized at the end of the 1st semester of the 6th year, when the course will be completed, and will cover all the topics of Clinical Practice 5th year and Clinical Practice 6th year courses. Students' fulfillment of competencies will be assessed by 2 written tests and an oral session. It is mandatory to pass both the written test to be admitted to the oral examination.
WRITTEN EXAMINATION
1) Written test of General Surgery
A written test using multiple choices Q&A questionnaire. 40 questions, each question has 4 answers, and each answer can be true or false. The questionnaire will be prepared on the slides presented at the frontal lessons (uploaded in the University website for student access) and on the official Textbook. The written test will be considered valid when at least 75% of responses will be answered correctly.
2) Written test of the following disciplines:
Plastic Surgery; Thoracic Surgery; Urology; Clinical Pathology; General psychology; Pharmacology; MED-EF/01
10 questions with 4 answers for each discipline, with only one correct answer. To pass this test students must answer correctly to 6/10 questions in each module.
3) Oral examination of Internal Medicine and General Surgery
ORAL EXAMINATION
For each exam session, the oral examinations of Internal Medicine and General Surgery are scheduled in two separate dates.
An oral discussion with the Course Director and/or Collaborators focused on clinical cases, multi-disciplinary analysis, risk-benefit of various therapeutic alternatives and clinical/research speculations on surgical patients presenting with clinical conditions described in the synchronous and asynchronous learning material as well as in the suggested Textbook. Contents of the asynchronous activities (e.g. Surgery Blog) will be valued, as part of the general assessment of student's participation and acquired knowledge.

The final mark is the weighted average of the two marks obtained in the oral examinations of Internal Medicine and General Surgery.
Written tests and Oral examinations can be taken in different exam sessions. Once passed, the written tests and the oral examinations remain valid. For general information about Exams required skills see also the section "Expected Outcome" below.

BIOSTATISTICS ASSESSMENT
Student assessment is based on the evaluation of a presentation of the work conducted during the practical activities. Students are required to present a draft research protocol for a clinical trial or an observational study. The presentation will be made in the presence of selected components of the exam commission and other students. The presentations will be prepared by small groups of students (maximum 3) and will be divided equally among the group members.

Attendance is required to be allowed to take the exam. Unexcused absence is tolerated up to 34% of the course activities. University policy regarding excused illness is followed.
Registration to the exam through SIFA is mandatory.