Marit Granhaug

Molecular Medicine (Master's Programme)

Frank Skorpen

NOTE: a full report has been attached. The total portfolio of courses offered within the program was evaluated in 2019. The portfolio was found to be appropriate for achieving the learning outcomes of the program, and the courses offered were found to hold a standard of correct level for a master’s degree. In that process all learning outcomes were evaluated and revised to conform with the wording of Bloom’s taxonomy for a master’s degree level.For all elective courses offered, students from the MolMed program are attending, suggesting they are all relevant for the individual professional qualifications of the students.

The program is popular with a total of 399 applicants in the autumn 2020 (163 Norwegian/Nordic and 236 international). 239 applicants (84 Norwegian/Nordic and 155 international) had MSc in Molecular Medicine as their 1st choice. The teaching activities of the program include lectures, problem-based learning (PBL), team-based learning (TBL), colloquiums, student presentations, laboratory exercises and project work. All compulsory and elective courses offered are given in in English and include one or more student interactive activities, in line with the recommendations from the student reference groups reports. In the 2020/2021 semesters all lectures were given digitally. In several courses, lectures were recorded and made available on Blackboard. The opportunity to view recordings of lectures were appreciated by the students. For some students this may have improved the learning outcome. However, based on the reports from the reference groups and statements in the Student Survey, there is a unisonous wish to get back to physical teaching. At present, the study program has no overall plan of making recordings of all lectures given on campus - whether recordings should be made has to be decided by the responsible for the individual courses. Overall, the program holds high quality, the students express a relatively high overall satisfaction with the study program and achieve good grades compared to students on similar programs. The overall quality of the master theses (60 ECTS) is high (GPA: B). NOTE: the course coordinator's evaluation of the Student Survey 2020, average grades, aspects of internationalization, new elective courses and a plan of action with specific measures and responsibility for implementation can be found in the attached Full report.

Molecular Medicine (Master's Programme) - MSMOLMED