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Class Attendance

Attendance is mandatory. Students may only have 2 UNJUSTIFIED absences during the entire course. Starting with the 3rd absence, each one will deduct 0.5 points from the continuous assessment grade.

The group of repeating students, may miss up to 2 classes throughout the course. The penalty will be the same as for the other groups.

Each student must attend classes with the group they have been assigned to, and group changes will not be allowed. Missed classes cannot be made up.

If there is a justified cause (death of a family member up to the 2nd degree of consanguinity, hospitalization of a family member up to the 2nd degree of consanguinity, and/or hospitalization of the student), the student must contact the professor to inform them. Only in these cases will the course professors consider the possibility of making up the class, and it will not be counted as an unjustified absence.

Class Attendance Rules

• Students must wear a white coat, have their hair tied back, wear no watch or jewelry on hands/wrists, keep nails short, and wear comfortable shoes. If they fail to comply, the professor may expel the student from class and it will be recorded as an unjustified absence.

• If a student arrives late (after 8:15 a.m. or 4:30 p.m. in the afternoon session), the professor may refuse entry, and it will be recorded as an unjustified absence.

• Classes end at 9:45 a.m.. If a student leaves 30 minutes early (or earlier) for personal reasons, it will be counted as an unjustified absence, with each case representing ¼ of an absence.

• Attendance at the interdisciplinary practice is mandatory, and non-attendance will result in a -2 point penalty in the continuous assessment grade.

Course Assessment

The assessment consists of two parts:

• Continuous assessment (40%): Various activities carried out throughout the course, intermediate assessments, and class attendance.

• Final exam (60%): This will be in the format of a general OSCE (with two parts: a theoretical and a practical parts, usually held on different days). Students must demonstrate the acquisition of competencies (skills, knowledge, and attitudes) worked on during the course. The exam includes real situations that students must resolve individually in a healthcare context.Although the two parts are held on different days, the OSCE constitutes a single examination with a single overall grade. For this reason, it is not possible to sit only one of the parts or to retake one part separately; any resit or second sitting requires repeating the entire OSCE (theory and practical parts

Conditional Items

Key aspects of procedures related to patient safety and/or affecting morbidity. Predefined criteria must be met in a minimum number of exam scenarios.
Examples: medication preparation and administration, allergies, dose calculation, management of central lines.

Critical Items

Aspects that may affect patient morbidity and mortality or that are very important in the course. Students must pass 70% of these items.

Minor Items

Aspects that affect patient safety but not morbidity or mortality. Students must pass 65% of these items.

Conditions for Passing the Final Exam (OSCE)

• Obtain a minimum score of 5/10 in the general OSCE.

• Pass all conditional items (patient identification, allergies, hand hygiene, safe medication management, administration routes, sterility in suctioning secretions and wound care).

• Pass 70% of the critical items (e.g., cleaning the anti-reflux cap with antiseptic, proper use of the needle, checking drug expiration).

• Pass 65% of the minor items (e.g., professional presentation, choosing the appropriate material, correct purging of IV sets and syringes, wearing gloves before patient contact when necessary).

Conduct during the OSCE
Any communication between students during the OSCE, as well as any attempt at cheating or the possession and/or use of a mobile phone or other digital devices, will result in immediate removal from the exam and a fail in the entire OSCE. These behaviours may also entail disciplinary action as set out in the current academic regulations.

Exam review will take place on a date set by the professor, announced in advance. Students must request to attend by email. Failure to attend means forfeiting the right to review.

Final Grade – First Sitting

To calculate the average between continuous assessment and the final exam, students must achieve at least 5 in each part.

Any failed part (continuous assessment or OSCE) must be retaken in the second sitting.

2nd, 4th, and 6th Sittings

• If the OSCE in the 1st sitting is higher than 5 but some conditions were not met, the student may retake those conditions in a partial exam (max. 3 stations, all must be passed). The maximum grade awarded will be 5.

• If continuous assessment is failed, a written exam will be taken in the 2nd sitting (maximum grade: 5).

• To aim for a higher grade, the student must retake the full OSCE, with prior request by email within the established deadline. Late requests will not be accepted.

• Honors distinctions (MH) will not be awarded in the 2nd sitting.

• In subsequent sittings, the same alternation applies (3rd and 5th = like 1st; 4th and 6th = like 2nd).

Procedure for Awarding Honors Distinction (MH)

• The threshold for consideration is from 9.0 upwards.

• Awarding is solely at the professor’s discretion and is not mandatory, even if a student has a grade above 9.0.

• The MH is not necessarily awarded to the highest numerical grade; other factors are also considered.

Procedure for Awarding “Not Presented” (NP)

• For an NP to appear in the student’s record, they must not have attended any assessment activity of the course.

• If a student attended any assessment, the percentages from the course syllabus will apply, with a 0 in the parts not attempted.

Procedure in Case of Plagiarism or Academic Fraud

Any task or activity (including exams) in which plagiarism, falsification, or academic fraud is detected will result in failure of the activity and an academic sanction, which may range from the loss of enrollment rights in the course to the opening of a disciplinary process.