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Hints for Freshmen 2014. Administrational Guide for Medical Students at the UPMS. Technical Background. ETR http s ://www.tr.pte.hu (native and web-based platforms) setting student status, booking courses, booking exam dates, checking status, payments, grades - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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UNIVERSITY OF PÉCSMEDICAL SCHOOL
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Hints for Freshmen 2014
Administrational Guide for Medical Students at the
UPMS
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Technical Background
ETR https://www.tr.pte.hu(native and web-based platforms)- setting student status, - booking courses, booking exam dates, - checking status, payments, grades- contacting fellow students and teachers
CooSpace (Modulo) https://coospace.tr.pte.hu/(„Cooperation in virtual space” web-based community site with scenes)- Contacting teachers, fellow students, even consultation- Sharing educational materials (up- and downloading lecture materials, home works, mid-
term test results, exam sheets, etc.)
Faculty website http://aok.pte.hu- Downloadable publications (timetable, program booklet, forms, schedule, etc.)- Contact details for departments/clinics and for teachers
username for ETR = university IDlost password → ask RO for a new one
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ETR
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COOSPACE
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www.aok.pte.hu
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Checking Curriculum
-all semester courses if requirements are completed
-Summer Practice in Hospital Care and Medical Communication Skills in the upcoming summer
-practice accepted only in accredited university teaching hospitals
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MATRICULATION
Between 18 August, 8 am and 30 August
Username and password is the same as to ETR
Collective enrolment August 28th
Through Modulo
Guide to matriculation on the first page
Check your personal data!
If you have a problem → e-mail to Korinna (print screen)
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Step by step matriculation Log in with username and password (English)
Choose „PTE”
Choose matriculation card (allow pop-up-windows)
Click on „filling in”
Correct data in grey fields (pinks can be corrected by RO)
„Save and Finalize” and print out (sign the pages 1-4 and bring it to RO)
Log out (now your semester is active if you chose active status)
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Course registration
Obligatory courses between 22 August and 28
August
Elective/optional courses between 22 August
and 5 September
Courses based on each other → see prerequisites
criterion requirements must be booked via ETR too
Don’t forget to close your registration
If you have any problem → e-mail with a print
screen to Korinna ([email protected])
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Course registration via ETR
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Enrollment in the later semesters
Later semesters: enrolling (decision on continuing / suspending studies): in ETR
Active semester: book subjects, attend classes, take exams, get grades and credit points – pay tuition fee
Passive semester: no classes, no exams, no grades, status suspended – no tuition fee
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Studies – A general overview
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Credit System- „credit points’” for each educational component/subject
RULES
- 1 credit = 14 class hours (generally…)
- Collect at least the minimum number of credits to get the degree (360/300 points)
- 20/40 rule: Complete 20 (15 obligatory) in the first 2 active semesters and 40 (20
obligatory) in the first 4 active ones (credit transfer may confuse this → if you are not
sure, contact RO)
- only 6 chances (in sum) to pass a subject
- Get 30 ± 3 credits in each semesters – requested by Lånekassen, CSN and loan
institutes
- No years (first year, etc.). The total number of credit points shows your progression
- Prerequisites: subjects are built on each other (max. 3 prerequisite subjects for
each)
- Recommended curriculum: contains the obligatory components and criterion
requirements for each semester
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Recommended curriculum Only obligatory subjects and criterion
requirements!
Print it out for yourself, it is very useful
http://aok.pte.hu → English → Students → Registrar’s Office → Booklets and Curricula → „Recommended curriculum 2014” under your major + „course descriptions”
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Recommended curriculum
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Types of courses
Obligatory subjects: a course-unit the completion of which is
required from each and every student of the programme (80% of
the total number of credits)
Elective and Optional subjects: (15% + 5%= 34+18 for General Medicine and 25+15 for Dentistry and Pharmaceutist)
Criterion requirement: a requirement to be fulfilled obligatorily to which no credit is allocated. (summer practices, physical education, language requirement)
Exam courses: when granted the end of semester signature
can’t attend classes, only exam
pre-scheduled exam (only in fall semester): first three days of
the registration period; if it”s successfull student can take up
courses, based on that course
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Course description
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Studies – The school year
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The School Year
School year (2014-2015)10 months: September – July
Exact dates always on the website of the RO (Announcements)
Fall Semester14 weeks: September – January
Spring Semester14 weeks: February – July
1. Registration period: 2 weeksenrolling/matriculation,
booking courses
2. Instruction period: 14 weeksclasses, mid-term attendance, papers…
3. Exam period: 7 weeksexams, exams, exams
1. Registration period: last week of previous exam period
enrolling, booking courses
2. Instruction period: 14 weeks1 week extra: Easter holiday
classes, mid-term attendance, papers…
3. Exam period: 7 weeksexams, exams, exams
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Timetable
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Timetable
• 1. Capital letter lectures
• 2. Small letter practices and seminars
• * odd week
• **even week
• Contains only the obligatory subjects
• Hungarian language (final exam at the end of the second year)
• Groups set by the RO, appr. 25 people
- attending practices and seminars in groups
- for changing group the departments’ permission is needed (every single subject’s course director)
- Group leader / year representative
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Completing a course
End of semester signature (testifying attendance in course) only electronic
signature in ETR; if denied, you cannot take exam!
Absent
from less than 15% of the classes of the course-unit cannot be condemned
for absence (unless the course director informed the students about stricter
expectations in the course description or in writing at the beginning of the
semester)
between 15 and 25%, course director shall decide on accepting the semester
reaches 25% (for any reason, with or without a certified excuse) you cannot
be granted entry to examination.
The course director can refuse to give electronic signature for
other reasons announced at the beginning of the semester – e.g.
missing a mid-term task or assignment – and can allow the student to make up for
it until the end of the second week of the examination period. - See
conditions/expectations for acceptance of the semester.
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Dismissing or Terminating studiesDismissal- Using 6 chances and not passing the subject- did not set semester active after 2 passive
semesters in ETR- 20 (15 obligatory) / 40 (20 obligatory) credits
(be careful with active no-course semesters)
Terminating (exmatriculation)- on request (write request)
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Financials
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Tuition fee 1
- To be paid for active semesters. (Active but no courses
→ 30%)
- Pay by bank transfer (additional costs)
- E-mail notification about payment details appr. 2-3 weeks
before semester start by the Finance Department (not the
RO)
- Deadline for payment: 08 September, 2014
- Proof to be submitted to the RO until 15 September,
2014
- Tution fee contract later.
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Tuition fee 2
Delayed payment
- ONLY for those, who pay their fee from loan and it’s not
received until the enrolment.
- Request forms: http://aok.pte.hu → English → Administration →
Registrar’s Office → Downloads and Forms
- Submitting to the RO until 5 September 2014
- Delayed payment until 31 October in fall semester, until 31
March in spring semester .
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Reductions
Reduction can be granted from the basic amount
– by application!
Reduction based on social needs: in special circumstances and only with written proof in English
After two completed semesters:
Reduction based on number of credits (twice during the studies)
Reduction based on academic achievement (only for the fall semester)
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Service fees and penalties
Paid at cashiers in HUF, cash
- missing deadlines (pay tuition fee, submit proof about
payment)
- C chances (exam or final exam) – 4900HUF
- unjustified exam absences – 4900HUF
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Don’t forget
Tomorrow (28 August) bring your username and password with you
Be at the meeting point on time Bring every missing paper to
Student Service Center this week [email protected] Print out schedule and curriculum
for yourselves (it is a huge help)
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QUESTIONS?
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Thanks for your attention.