Rigorous State Examination Requirements

The student will draw questions at random, one from each of the three topic areas (paediatric propaedeutics, special paediatrics, differential diagnosis in paediatrics) and another question from imagine methods to be described. An image will be one of the following anatomic systems: head, thorax, abdomen, and skeleton. Each question will be graded as 1, 2 or 3 (= passed), or 4 (= failed). 

The examination in paediatrics is a complex one and the questions are mere guidelines for the course of the part of the Rigorous State Examination, and in testing the student’s knowledge it may overlap with some other subjects as well. The Examining Board can interrupt the examination at any moment in order to ballot about the grading. If the student is graded as “failed” for any question (theoretical from any topic area or the imaging method), the examination will not be continued and the total grade for the part of the Rigorous State Examination is “failed”. Grading of the particular questions as well as the total outcome – grading of the part of the Rigorous State Examination – is decided on by ballot in the Examining Board.