BIOB3100 Transfusion Medicine and Medical Immunology Course description

The occupational therapy programme emphasises a global and international perspective. Development of the teaching and research takes place through international cooperation.

The programme has exchange agreements with partner institutions abroad. The students can go on an exchange stay in the sixth semester. The duration of the stay will be from twelve weeks to six months. The exchange is linked to theoretical studies, practical training and the bachelor's thesis. Reference is made to the criteria that apply to student exchanges and stays abroad.

The course IPH3000 International Public Health is taught exclusively in English, and all the course literature is in English, while the students can choose whether to take the exam in English or in Norwegian.

Students with a particular interest in internationalisation can undertake different activities during the programme with an international and multicultural angle, leading to the qualification "Certificate of International Learning" (CIL).

• Passed first and second year or equivalent of the Bachelor’s Programme in Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, or
• Admitted to the Complementary Education in Biomedical Laboratory Science

Required coursework is all types of work, tests and compulsory attendance that are requirements for a student to be assessed/permitted to take the exam. If coursework requirements have not been met during the practical training, it may be registered as failed and count as one attempt at passing the course. Required coursework is assessed as approved/not approved. The coursework requirements for each course are described in the relevant course description. The programme has coursework requirements in the form of compulsory attendance and written assignments.

Compulsory attendance

A minimum attendance requirement of 80% applies to all parts of the programme where the students cannot achieve the learning outcomes on their own. Therefore, compulsory attendance requirements may apply to lectures, introductions to courses and topics, group work, supervision, skills training, seminars and presentations of different types of work. Other activities may also be subject to compulsory attendance requirements. Please see the course descriptions for more information on compulsory course activities.

The minimum attendance requirement for practical training courses is 90%. Students are themselves responsible for ensuring that they meet the attendance requirements.

A student who does not meet the requirements for attendance in a course must usually re-take the course and take the exam the following year. This will mean a delay in study progress. In special cases, the student can be granted dispensation by undertaking compensatory work. An application for dispensation must then be presented to the programme.

Written assignments

The coursework requirements for the course ERGOPRA2 Placement - Mental Health: Treatment and Re-/habilitation are written assignments. Written work that is not approved must be improved before re-submission. If the coursework requirements are not met during the placement, it will be registered as failed and count as one (1) attempt at passing the course. Failure to submit compulsory written work by the deadline counts as one attempt at having the required coursework approved.

More detailed requirements for written work, deadlines etc. are set out in the course description and teaching plan

The assessment arrangements are intended to assess the students regularly throughout the programme in order to promote learning, while also providing information to the programme and the student about study progress and the results achieved.

The assessments are carried out in accordance with the applicable rules set out in the Act relating to Universities and University Colleges, the Regulations Relating to Studies and Examinations at OsloMet, and the Guidelines for Appointment and Use of Examiners at OsloMet.

The programme has an external programme supervisor who contributes to quality assurance. The external programme supervisor is charged with evaluating the programme's structure and coherence, including the relationship between the learning outcomes as described in the programme description, the work and teaching methods and assessment arrangements. The external programme supervisor should normally supervise all the courses in the programme over the course of a three-year period and provide feedback and advice that the academic environment can use in its further work on the quality of education.

Assessment of practical training

The student´s presentation in the practical training courses ERGOPRA1, ERGOPRA2 and ERGOPRA3 will be assessed as pass/fail. Detailed provisions on the criteria for passing are specified under each course in the programme description and in the teaching plan for the course.

Examination

All courses conclude in an exam or a final assessment. All courses have required coursework that must be approved before the student can take the exam/undergo final assessment. See the course descriptions for more detailed provisions.

Resit and rescheduled exams are carried out in the same manner as the ordinary exam unless otherwise specified in the course description.

All detailed information about the exam will be provided in the guidelines for the individual exams well before the exam date.

For courses where a percentage of the exam papers are randomly selected for assessment by an external examiner, the external examiner's assessment shall benefit all the students. In such cases, one external and one internal examiner will first grade the selected papers. The internal examiner then continues grading the rest of the papers individually or together with another internal examiner. The assessments from the first part are summarised to serve as guidelines for the internal examiners.

The grade given for a written exam can be appealed, cf. Section 5-3 of the Act relating to Universities and University Colleges and Section 7-3 (2) of the Regulations relating to Studies and Examinations at OsloMet. It is not possible to appeal the grades awarded for oral and practical exams. For a group exam, the result of an appeal will only have consequences for the candidates who submitted the appeal. This means that all members of the group do not have to participate in the appeal.

Suitability

Diplomas for the completed programme will only be awarded to graduates who are suited to practise the profession. A student who represents a potential threat to the life, physical or mental health, rights and security of his/her patients, clients and users is not suited for the profession.

Suitability assessments are made on a continuous basis throughout the study programme, and will be included in the overall assessment of the students' professional and personal suitability for work as health personnel. Students who demonstrate little ability to master the occupational therapy profession must be informed of this at the earliest possible stage of the programme. They will be given supervision and advice on how to improve, or be advised to leave the programme. Special suitability assessments are used in special cases, cf. the Regulations concerning Suitability Assessment in Higher Education.

Information regarding the programme description

Adopted by the Board of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences on 10 May 2011.

Most recent amendments adopted by the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences on 7 February 2018.

Applies for the 2018 year group.

Supervised individual written exam, 4 hours

Handed out antigram and pen/pencil.

A-F.

All exam papers are assessed by two examiners. A minimum of twenty per cent of the exam papers will be assessed by an external examiner. The external examiner’s assessment shall benefit all students.

8.5 credits overlap with the course BIO3100 Transfusion and Transplantation