Name of qualification Name of qualification: Doktor medicine/doktorica medicineAdd to comparison
Translated title (no legal status) Translated title: Doctor of Medicine
Type of qualification Type of qualification: Master’s degree
Category of qualification Category of qualification: Educational Qualification
Type of education Type of education: Master's education
Duration Duration of education:
6 years
Credits Credits: 360 credits
Admission requirements Entry conditions:
  • Matura or
  • final examination (before 1 June 1995) for any four-year secondary school programme.
ISCED field Field:
Health and welfare
ISCED subfield subfield: medicine
Qualification level

SQF Level: SQF 8
EQF Level: EQF 7
EOVK Level: Second level

Learning outcomes:

The qualification holder will be able to:
(general competences)

  • transfer and apply theoretical knowledge into practice,
  • resolve technical and work problems, in particular by searching for new sources of knowledge and applying scientific methods,
  • develop the ability to communicate within the profession and between professions,
  • demonstrate cooperativeness and the ability to work in a group,
  • demonstrate professional critical faculties and responsibility,
  • demonstrate initiative and independence in decision-making and leadership of the most complex work,
  • demonstrate general knowledge and a capacity to analyse and synthesise knowledge,
  • develop communication abilities,
  • work in an international environment,
  • demonstrate an ethical commitment to the profession and professional ethics and acquire knowledge in the field of medical ethics and deontology,
  • work autonomously in a general medical practice, both in the sense of identifying all conditions and in the sense of their treatment,

(subject-specific competences)

  • demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the foundations and history of the development of medicine,
  • resolve specific medical and healthcare problems through the application of scientific methods and procedures,
  • demonstrate mastery of basic knowledge in the field of medicine and integrate and apply knowledge from various fields of medicine,
  • integrate new information into the context of medicine,
  • understand the general structures of medicine and the links between its sub-disciplines, such as individual specialisations,
  • develop skills in the application of knowledge in the professional field of medicine,
  • use information and communication technologies in the professional field of medicine.

Assesment and completion:

Examination performance is scored as follows: 10 (excellent); 9 (very good: above-average knowledge but with some mistakes); 8 (very good: solid results); 7 (good); 6 (adequate: knowledge satisfies minimum criteria); 5–1 (inadequate). In order to pass an examination, the candidate must achieve a grade between adequate (6) and excellent (10).

Progress:

In order to enrol in the second year the student must have completed all study requirements in the following first-year subjects: Anatomy with histology, Biophysics, Chemistry, Cell biology, Biochemistry, Medical terminology, the PBL module Anatomy and Basics of preclinical subjects I, and the PBL module Anatomy and Basics of preclinical subjects II. In order to enrol in the third year the student must have completed all study requirements in the following second-year subjects: Physiology, Biostatistics, Microbiology I, Medicine and information technology, the PBL module Foundations of physiology/pathophysiology I, the PBL module Foundations of physiology/pathophysiology II; and the following first-year subjects: First aid and Molecular biology. In order to enrol in the fourth year the student must have completed all study requirements in the following third-year subjects: Internal medicine with propedeutics, Surgery, the PBL module Internal medicine/surgery I, the PBL module Internal medicine/surgery II, elective subject 1; and the following second-year requirements: Pharmacology with toxicology, Pathology I, Basics of epidemiology (for intakes from 2006/07 this subject is renamed Public health 1), Sociology of medicine, English. In order to enrol in the fifth year the student must have completed all study requirements in the following third-year subjects: Radiology, Anaesthesiology, Psychology; and from the fourth year, study requirements in the subjects Paediatrics and Pathology II and the PBL module Family medicine. In order to enrol in the sixth year the student must have completed all study requirements up to the sixth year with the exception of: Medicine in emergency conditions, Geriatrics, History of medicine, Public health 2.

Progression:

Third-cycle doctoral study programmes (SQF level 10)

Conditions for obtaining a public document:

Students complete their studies when they have passed all examinations and completed practical work (family medicine, hospital).

Awarding body:

University of Maribor, Faculty of Medicine

URL

Awarding body URL:
http://www.mf.um.si/en/study
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