To access digital resources at the University of Oldenburg, you will need a personal user account. For university staff and lecturers, this is set up automatically by the IT Services. 

This gives you access to 

the Stud.IP campus management system

the BigBlueButton web conferencing system

the BIS – Library and Information System

the administration portal

Many modules on the Medical Studies programme take place at the Haarentor campus. There, teaching rooms are mainly available in buildings V02, V03 and V04.

V02 (site plan): Skills labs in the Clinical Training Centre

V03 (map): Small-group rooms, seminar rooms, lecture theatres

V04 (map): seminar rooms

Room bookings for your sessions are generally made via the Dean’s Office of Faculty VI at the Room Booking Office.

Most rooms are equipped with audiovisual technology (projectors, speakers, etc.). Details of the equipment in each room can be viewed on Stud.IP.
If you have any questions regarding the audiovisual equipment in buildings V03 and V04, please contact the University’s Audiovisual Services. You can reserve keys for the equipment lockers via the relevant contact persons if required. Further information is summarised on the Audiovisual Services website.

If required, you can borrow equipment from the Dean’s Office (V03 M-3-332):

• Appointment: by arrangement
• Contact: Miriam Ewert, 0441 798-3114,

Here you will find detailed instructions on how to use the audiovisual equipment in the event rooms in Building V03:

Lecture theatre technology with your own laptop

Lecture theatre technology with an integrated PC

Seminar room technology

In each cohort, there are students who can assist lecturers as technical teaching assistants with the use of the media technology. If you require assistance, please contact lehre.medizin@uol.de well in advance of your lecture. 

As a teacher, you will need

• a laptop
• your university ID to access the campus network
• An HDMI or VGA cable to connect your laptop to the projector

• A key to the media cupboard if you wish to use additional equipment in the lecture theatre

  Booking request for keys to media cupboards/projectors

The awarding of teaching contracts is an exception within the Faculty. Teaching is generally carried out by academic staff as part of their existing teaching commitments arising from their employment at the University (teaching loads). The circumstances under which teaching contracts may be awarded are set out in the information sheet below (accessible only via the University network).

Information sheet on the awarding of teaching contracts

According to the Regulations Governing the Licensing of Doctors, medical students must complete an elective module by the time they sit the first part of the medical examination. For the Oldenburg model degree programme, this means that our students must have completed their pre-clinical elective by the end of the third year of study in order to be awarded the equivalent of the ‘Physikum’. The following points must be noted here:

• In principle, all university departments and their non-university partners are warmly invited to offer a project that is thematically relevant to medical training. This enables us to create a wide and diverse range of options for our students.
• The pre-clinical elective is offered at the start of the winter semester in the second year of study (before Module 2.1). It comprises one full-time week, which should include 10 academic hours of seminar work. It is expressly recommended that the remaining 30 hours be used for practical work in the form of a project, which – even in the case of projects within specialist departments of hospitals – must go beyond mere observation of medical teams.
• The Licensing Regulations require a graded assessment for the pre-clinical elective. The form of the assessment may be freely chosen from the types of examination specified in the Examination Regulations.
• A project proposal should, as a rule, be designed for at least five students. A flat rate of 1.5 LVS is credited towards the teaching load for each project. Alternatively, a teaching assignment may be awarded.
• If the topic is suitable, you also have the option of opening up your project to the LFC research placement for years 2 and 3. Please tick the appropriate box on the registration form. Please note that a project is only suitable for the LFC Year 2/3 if your proposal focuses on research and thus provides an insight into this field.

We would be delighted if we have sparked your interest and you would like to offer a pre-clinical elective. You can find the application form here. Please submit the form by 15 May or 15 November, respectively, for the following semester.

Planned project week for Year 2:

Winter term 2026/27:

 12–16 October 2026

What is POL and how does it work?
POL stands for ‘problem-based learning’. In groups of 8–10 students, case vignettes are worked through interactively; students receive these on the Tuesday of the previous week. The group develops learning objectives, which they then send to us by email. In the first year of study, the cases focus primarily on issues with a scientific background. In the later years of study, the focus shifts to clinical issues, conducting patient consultations and differential diagnosis.

Who can teach POL?
In Year 1, a POL group may also be taught by scientific staff. Years 2 and 3 are reserved for lecturers with a medical licence to practise.

How much time is involved?
POL is taught in pairs. The tandem partners can divide the sessions between themselves and cover for one another in the event of holiday or illness. In Year 1, POL sessions take place weekly. In Years 2 and 3, they take place every two weeks.

How long is the commitment?
A POL tutorship lasts for at least one academic year (i.e. the winter and summer semesters).

How does the induction work?
Before you become a POL tutor, you will receive compulsory training from our Medical Education Department and the Teaching Coordination team. It is also possible to shadow experienced POL tutors by arrangement.

How is POL remunerated or credited?
A POL tutorship can be credited towards your teaching load (factor 0.67) or remunerated via a teaching contract.

If you are interested in getting involved in Problem-Based Learning, please get in touch by 15 May at the latest via studekems@uni-oldenburg.de.

The ‘Professional Development’ longitudinal pathway, which runs throughout all years of study, provides support for students’ professional development. Practical and clinical experiences are processed and reflected upon, whilst a range of interdisciplinary topics overlapping with the fields of linguistics, the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies are also discussed. In years 1 to 5, students meet regularly in small groups with a medical tutor. These consistent small groups provide a setting in which students can raise and discuss confidential matters. The content and objectives of professional development are based on the topics students are studying in the respective academic year.

In the first three years of study, the focus is on ‘professional conduct’. Students learn the fundamentals of professional conduct in the medical profession and are able to discuss these using case studies. They also learn to analyse their personal experiences through critical questioning and discussion. Each academic year also has a specific thematic focus which students explore in greater depth.

In the fourth year of study, these skills are expanded to include the ‘assessment of (inter-)professional conduct’. During the sessions, students reflect on their personal strengths and weaknesses. They develop strategies to progress towards the goals they have set for themselves. This also involves addressing and analysing their own problems as well as those of colleagues, and developing strategies to resolve them.

The fifth year focuses on consolidating professional (medical) practice. Students will then be able to describe and critically examine their experiences. Based on this analysis, they can formulate further personal goals that support their professional development.

We are seeking general practitioners and clinically practising doctors to supervise the small groups in the ‘Professional Development’ course series. If you are interested in supporting our students as part of the Professional Development programme, please get in touch by 15 May at the latest via .
 

As part of the block placements, you can supervise students at your clinic. These supervision hours count towards your personal teaching workload and your teaching qualification.

Which modules are recognised for the supervision of students?
Medical students from Oldenburg come to the University of Oldenburg’s partner institutions for block placements in the following modules:

• med413/med475 Block placement in Internal Medicine 
• med423/med474 Block Placement in Surgery 
• med435 Block placement in neurology
• med436 Block placement in psychiatry
• med445/med371 Block placement in gynaecology
• med446/med372 Paediatrics Block Placement
• med531 Clinical Block Placement: Compulsory Clinical Elective 
• med541/med491 Clinical Elective  

You are required to confirm the students’ successful participation in the block placement in your department via the module certificate. The name of the module can be found on the module certificate.

Partner institutions include university hospitals and academic teaching hospitals.

To what extent is teaching workload taken into account?
0.2381 teaching hours (LVS) are credited per student per week. Supervision time during the block placement is not remunerated in the form of paid teaching assignments.

What is the procedure?
Teaching undertaken by staff at university hospitals is recorded as part of the termly teaching load monitoring process.

Teachers from non-university departments must report their supervision work to the Dean’s Office for Academic Affairs by following these steps:

• The deadlines for reporting are 31 March for the winter semester and 30 September for the summer semester.
• Send an email to with the subject line: UaK in block placement + [reference semester, e.g. Winter Semester 2025/26]
• In the body of the email, please specify the hospital and department

The Dean’s Office will issue a certificate confirming the supervision provided.