The uniform master's degree study programme General Medicine was approved by the Senate of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Maribor at its 33th correspondence meeting on November 26, 2007 and by the Senate of the University of Maribor at its 8th regular meeting on February 4, 2008. The Council for Higher Education of the Republic of Slovenia gave a positive opinion on the introduction of the new uniform master's degree study programme General Medicine at its 7th meeting on May 5, 2008.

To advance to a higher level the students must complete obligations in these subjects: • for enrolment in the 2nd study year: - all completed study obligations in these subjects from the 1st year: Anatomy with Histology, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Cell Biology, Introduction to Medicine, PBL - preclinic I, PBL - preclinic II, selective subject 1, selective subject 2 = total 51 ECTS. • for enrolment in the 3rd study year: - all completed study obligations in these subjects from the 2nd year: Physiology, Microbiology with Immunology, Pharmacology with Toxicology, Health Psychology and Communication, PBL - preclinic III, Pathology I (general pathology) and PBL - preclinic IV, selective subject III = total 53 ECTS, and a subjects from the 1st year - Molecular Biology with Genetics and Methods of research work in medicine with medical statistics. • for enrolment in the 4th study year: - all completed study obligations in these subject from the 3rd year: Internal Medicine with Propedeutics, Surgery, Radiology, Clinical Biochemistry, Pathology - special pathology, PBL - Clinics V, PBL - Clinics VI, = total 51 ECTS, and study obligations from the 2nd year: Evidence-based medicine and Medical informatics, e-Health and medical statistics. • for enrolment in the 5th year: - all completed study obligations from the 4th year in the minimum amount of 50 ECTS and all completed study obligations from 1st till 4th year. • for enrolment in the 6th year: - all completed study obligations from the 5th year in the minimum amount of 50 ECTS, all completed study obligations from 1st till 4th year and completed study obligations from the 5th year in the minimum amount of 50 ECTS.

Uniform master study General Medicine does not have separate parts.

Doctoral study.

Graduates are directed to internship; when it is concluded they can apply to call for specializations. Graduates after finished programmes of training can find employment in numerous fields: - At public institutions as specialists; - In companies and establishments where knowledge of general medicine is required; - At research centers or institutes; - At higher education institutions; - As private practitioners.

Univerza v Mariboru Medicinska fakulteta Taborska 8 2000 Maribor Tel: +386 (2) 23 45 821 Fax: +386 (2) 23 45 820 e-mail: mf@um.si Internet: www.mf.um.si

None.

The methods and forms of grading and examining the knowledge of students for each individual subject are prescribed in the subject curriculum. By rule, every subject is completed with an exam, the teachers are encouraging students to use various forms of active study and already during the study process examine their knowledge in different forms, e.g. tests, assignments and projects (and their argumentation) with including students in research projects etc. The acquired grades keep a record of students’ knowledge according to the study program. At grading, the teachers take in account the rules of grading which are determined by the University of Maribor. The examining and grading students’ knowledge will be done in these forms: • written exam • oral exam • practical exam • short examination • seminar • active participation in practice • assessment of practice • short examination or part written exams • electronic tests • report about practical training.

The basic objective of the proposed uniform master’s degree study program General Medicine is to prepare students for autonomous work as doctors. • In this sense they will acquire knowledge of health, keeping healthy, diseases and preventive steps in the context of an individual and his/her position in the family and society. • They will acquire the knowledge and abilities of basic clinical skills like assessing the course of a disease, carrying out physical tests and interpretation of test results. They will also have competences for the adequate carrying out of basic technical procedures and skills in communicating with the patients. • Students will acquire the knowledge necessary for achieving the high standards of medical practice and ethics while caring for individuals and the population the same as for their personal professional development. Next to restricted objectives that come from medical sciences, with carrying out of the stated uniform master’s degree study program General Medicine, also broader social objectives will be realized: • improvement of health services and with that the health of the population of the north-eastern part of Slovenia. • ensuring enough doctors in the Republic of Slovenia in accordance with the assessment of the Ministry of Health, made on the basis of the analysis of the demographic characteristics of doctor population (see Argumentation for application). • ensuring faster development of medical sciences on the regional level and with the cooperation with the Faculty of Medicine of University of Ljubljana on the national level. The University of Maribor represents infrastructural and contents potential also for interdisciplinary cooperation in the scientific and research and educational area, and the basis for further international cooperation.

The uniform master’s degree study program General Medicine enables students to acquire expert knowledge of theoretical and methodological concepts, the ability to transfer and use the theoretical knowledge in practice and solve expert and work problems, especially in searching new sources of knowledge and use of scientific methods, developing the capabilities for communication within the science and between sciences, cooperation and working in groups, expert criticism and responsibility, initiative and independence at decision making and managing of the most exacting work. A part of the program is also practical education in the doctors’ working environment. The emphasis of the study program is acquiring general knowledge, analysis of knowledge and synthesis, developing communication skills, working in the international environment; an important element is ethical obligation to the profession and professional ethics, and acquiring knowledge of ethics in medicine and in the area of deontology. After completing studies, graduates will be competent to work independently in an outpatient’s department of general medicine, in the sense of recognizing illnesses and also in the sense of treating them. For their further education specialization is required in the directions that the Medical Chamber requires on the national and European level.

Students will acquire knowledge in the area of preclinical subjects (e.g. anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, etc.) and clinical subjects (internal medicine, surgery, paediatrics, family medicine, etc.). After completing the program they will master: • they will know and understand the argumentation and the history of medicine development; • they will be able to solve concrete medical and health problems using scientific methods and procedures; • they will master basic knowledge in the area of medicine, they will be able to link knowledge from different areas of medicine and apply them; • they will be able to place new information in the context of medicine; • they will understand basic structures of medicine and the connection between its sub-disciplines, like individual specializations; • they will develop skills and abilities in the use of knowledge in the expert area of medicine; • they will use information-communication technology in the expert area of medicine.

For the uniform master’s degree study program General Medicine can apply: a) who passes the Matura examination, b) who has before June 1, 1995 finished any 4-year secondary school program. All candidates must have a level of knowledge of the Slovenian language at the C2 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). As a fulfilment of this admission requirement a completed course of the subject of the Slovenian language at the baccalaureate or in the last year of a secondary school is taken into account when the lectures have been given, a certificate of a passed exam in the Slovenian language at the level C2 is taken into account or any other equivalent document as well.

If the resolution about the enrolment limitation will be accepted, a) the candidates who passed the Matura examination, will be chosen according to: • overall success at Matura 35 % of points, • overall success in the 3rd and 4th year of secondary school 20 % of points, • success at individual subjects from Matura: mathematics, foreign language and one subject of natural science (biology, physics or chemistry) 45 % of points; b) the candidates who have before June 1, 1995 finished any 4-year secondary school program will be chosen according to: • overall success at final exams 35 % of points, • overall success in the 3rd and 4th year of secondary school 20 % of points, • success in mathematics or foreign language at final exams, and success in one of the subjects from natural science (biology, physics or chemistry) at final exams or in the last year of secondary school when the subject was carried out 45 % of points;

Candidates are, according to the criteria for transitions among study programmes, enroled: - in the second or higher year of the uniform master's study programme General Medicine when there is a case of termination of education of the first study programme in the field of general medicine or continuation of studies according to this study programme of the same level, - the transition of a higher education graduate is not possible. The transition is possible if the candidate meets the following conditions: - meets the conditions for enrolment in the first year of the uniform master's study programme General Medicine, - transits from the study programme which upon the completion of studies ensures the acquisition of comparable competencies or learning outcomes, - during the transition the candidate gets acknowledgement of at least half of the obligations under the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (hereinafter: ECTS) from the first study programme which refer to compulsory subjects of another study programme.

Students, during the process of education, can get acknowledgment of acquired knowledge, qualification or abilities which have been acquired prior to enrolment: • formally acquired are those knowledge and skills which are acquired by candidates within educational and higher education institutions and are demonstrated by candidates with various publicly valid certificates and degrees and provide publicly valid level of education or qualification for candidates. • Informally acquired are those knowledge and skills which are acquired by candidates in educational and higher education institutions or apart from them and are demonstrated by certificates of acquired knowledge or skills (courses, workshops, seminars, etc.) Upon acknowledgment or non-acknowledgment the basic criterion is comparability of elsewhere acquired knowledge with learning units, skills and qualification in the uniform master's study programme Generall Medicine. The procedure of acknowledgment takes place in accordance with the List of rules on acknowledgment of knowledge and skills in the study programmes of the University of Maribor https://www.um.si/univerza/dokumentni-center/akti/GlavniDokumenti2013/Pravilnik%20o%20priznavanju%20znanj%20in%20spretnosti%20v%20študijskih%20programih%20UM%20št.%20012-2019-2.pdf . Applications for acknowledgment of knowledge and skills in various

The requirement for completing studies is successfully completed all prescribed obligations in the study program, including selective subjects and practical work in the 6th study year - students gather minimally 360 ECTS.