University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf

In 2007, the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg joined the Assessment Network as the fourth member after Berlin, Munich and Heidelberg. There was a desire to evaluate the many MC exams centrally and electronically in an assessment centre and to create uniform quality standards for the exam questions. The ItemManagementSystem (IMS) was optimal as a central element.

At the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), 500 first-year students per year begin their studies in medicine, dentistry and midwifery. With a total number of more than 3,600 students, the number of examinations is very high. The module final examinations in the model study programmes medicine iMED and dentistry iMED DENT are interdisciplinary and include different exam formats. In the field of medicine, the main parts are MC examinations and practical parts, which are conducted as structured oral or OSCE examinations. The most comprehensive examinations are the scientific selection test HAM-Nat and the so-called “Prüfung Normalfunktion”, an intermediate examination after the 3rd semester (oral and OSCE examination), which is required as an equivalence to the oral part of the first section of the medical examination.

Hamburg uses the IMS for about 140 exams per year, which are evaluated with the EXAMINATOR. Since 2014, tOSCE has been used for the structured oral exams, and since 2018, tEXAM has been used increasingly for the implementation of selected exams on tablets.

UCAN Partner since 2007