As a teacher you will need

• a laptop
• Your university ID for access to the campus network
• HDMI or VGA cable to connect the laptop to the projector
• Key to the media box if you would like to use additional technology in the event room

Many courses in the Human Medicine degree programme take place on the Haarentor campus. Event rooms are mainly available in buildings V02, V03 and V04.

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

V03(site plan): Small group rooms, seminar rooms, lecture theatres

V04(site plan): Seminar rooms

Room bookings for your events are usually made via the Dean of Studies Office of School VI at the Room Office.

Most rooms are equipped with media technology (projector, loudspeakers etc.). The equipment in the individual rooms can be viewed in Stud.IP.
If you have any questions about media technology in buildings V03 and V04, please contact the university's media technology services. If required, you can reserve keys for the media cabinets via the relevant contact persons. Further information is summarised on the media technology web pages.

Here you will find detailed instructions on how to use the media technology in the event rooms in building V03

• Lecture theatre technology with your own laptop
• Lecture theatre technology with integrated PC
• Seminar room technology

If required, you can borrow equipment from the Dean of Studies office (V03 M-3-332):

• Date: by arrangement
• Contact: Miriam Ewert, 0441 798-2510,

According to the licensing regulations for doctors, students of human medicine must complete an elective subject by the first section of the final medical examination. For the Oldenburg model degree programme, this means that our students must have completed their pre-clinical elective subject by the end of the third year of study in order to be awarded the equivalent of the Physician's Certificate. The following must be noted here:

• In principle, all university departments and their non-university cooperation partners* are welcome to offer a project that is thematically related to medical training in a meaningful way. This enables us to create a wide and diverse range of electives for our students.
• The pre-clinical elective is offered twice a year at the beginning of the winter semester in the second year of study and at the beginning of the summer semester in the third year of study (before module 2.1 and before module 3.3). It has the scope of a full-time week, which should include a seminar component of 10 academic hours. It is expressly desired that the remaining 30 hours are used for practical work in the form of projects, which must also go beyond pure observation in medical teams at the end of projects in specialised departments of clinics.
• The licensing regulations require a marking course certificate for the pre-clinical elective subject. The form of the examination can be freely chosen from the examination types specified in the examination regulations.
• A project programme should always be designed for at least five students. A flat rate of 1.5 LVS is credited to the teaching load for a project. Alternatively, a teaching assignment can be issued.
• If the topic is suitable, you also have the option of opening your project for the LFC research internship year 2/3. Please tick the appropriate box on the registration form. Please note that suitability for the LFC 2/3 is only given if your project focuses on research and thus also provides an insight into it.

We would be delighted if we have aroused 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 for the following semester.

Planned project weeks:

WiSe 2025/26:

13.-17.10.2025

What is POL and how does POL work?
POL stands for "problem-orientated learning". Groups of 8-10 students work interactively on case vignettes, which the students receive on the Tuesday of the previous week. The group works on learning objectives, which you then send to us by email. In academic year 1, the cases increasingly address issues with a scientific background. In the higher years of study, the focus is on clinical issues, conducting patient consultations and differential diagnostic thinking.

Who can teach POL?
A POL group can also be taught by science staff in year 1. Years 2 and 3 are reserved for teachers with a medical licence to practise.

How much time is required?
POL is taught in tandem. The tandem partners can divide up the dates between them and cover for each other in the event of holiday or illness. In academic year 1, the POL sessions take place weekly. In academic years 2 and 3, they take place every two weeks.

How long do I commit to?
A POL tutorship lasts at least one academic year (i.e. winter and summer semesters).

How does the induction take place?
Before you become a POL tutor, you will receive mandatory training from our medical didactics department and the teaching coordinator. It is also possible to shadow experienced POL tutors by arrangement.

How is POL remunerated or credited?
A POL tutorship can be credited to the teaching load (factor 0.67) or remunerated by teaching assignment.

If you are interested in participating in problem-based learning, please contact by 15 May at the latest

The longitudinal "Professional Development" pathway, which runs through all years of the programme, supports students' professional development. Practical and clinical experiences are processed and reflected upon, and a range of interdisciplinary topics with overlaps to linguistics, humanities, social sciences or cultural studies are also discussed. In academic years 1 to 5, students meet regularly in small groups with a medical tutor. The constant small groups create a framework in which students can address and discuss confidential issues. The content and objectives of professional development are based on the topics that the students deal with in the respective academic year.

In the first three years of study, the focus is on "professional behaviour". Students learn the basics of professional behaviour in the medical profession and are able to discuss this on the basis of case studies. They also learn to analyse personal experiences through critical questions and answers. Each year of study also has a focus topic that students deal with in more detail.

In the fourth year of study, these skills are expanded to include "assessing (inter-)professional behaviour". Students reflect on their personal strengths and weaknesses in the meetings. They develop strategies to develop towards the goals they have set themselves. This also includes addressing and analysing their own problems and those of colleagues and developing strategies to solve them.

The fifth year of study is about consolidating professional (medical) behaviour. Students are then able to describe and scrutinise their experiences. On the basis of this analysis, you can formulate further personal goals that serve professional development.

We are looking for general practitioners and clinically active doctors to supervise the small groups in the "Professional Development" series of events. If you are interested in accompanying our students as part of the Professional Development programme, please contact us by 15 May at the latest at

As part of the clinical block placements, you can supervise students in your clinic. This supervision time can be counted towards your personal teaching performance and towards your degree programme.

Which modules are taken into account for the supervision of students?
For the following modules, medical students from Oldenburg come to the cooperating institutions of the University of Oldenburg for their block internship:

• med413 Clinical block internship in internal medicine
• med423 Clinical block placement in surgery
• med435 Clinical block placement in neurology
• med436 Clinical block placement in psychiatry
• med445 Clinical block placement in gynaecology
• med446 Clinical block internship in paediatrics
• med531 Clinical block internship: Clinical elective internship
• med541 Clinical block internship: clinical elective

You confirm successful participation in the block placement to the students in your department via the module result sheet. You can read the name of the module on the module result sheet.

Co-operating institutions include university hospitals and academic teaching hospitals.

To what extent is the teaching work taken into account?
0.2071 teaching hours (LVS) are recognised per student per week. The supervision time in the block internship is not remunerated in the form of paid teaching assignments.

What is the procedure?
The teaching of persons in the university hospitals is recorded as part of the semesterly teaching load controlling.

Lecturers from non-university departments report their supervision work to the Dean of Studies Office in accordance with the following steps:

• Deadlines for reporting are 31 March for the winter semester and 30 September for the summer semester.
• Email to with the subject: UaK in block internship + [reference semester, e.g. winter semester 2023/24]
• Indicate hospital and department in the email text

The Office of the Dean of Studies will issue a certificate of supervision.