The Department management allocates resources in the form of staff and finances for the operation of teams.

Teams are allocated resources in the form of instructors and funds for minor hirings according to agreements with the Department management.

The team coordinator takes the initiative and coordinates the appropriate distribution of course responsibility for the team's courses among the instructors on the team.

The team coordinator takes the initiative and coordinates the appropriate distribution of resources to the course coordinator.

The course coordinator, in collaboration with the team coordinator, is responsible for selecting instructors for the course, including ensuring the proportion of teaching by researchers and the knowledge base.

The course coordinator makes agreements on hours with instructors. The course coordinator is responsible for making written agreements with external lecturers in collaboration with the team coordinator.

The team coordinator coordinates and ensures that regular teaching meetings are held with the teaching team, PhD students and other scientific staff.

A course coordinator is appointed for theses, master's projects, and seminars.

Each team is assigned a number of theses and master's projects as well as seminars, which are distributed among the team members.

A course coordinator is appointed for bachelor's projects.

Each team is assigned a number of bachelor's projects, which are distributed among the team members.

A course coordinator is appointed for business-oriented project processes.

Each team is assigned a number of projects, which are distributed among the team members.

The course coordinator is responsible for preparing the course description in accordance with the curriculum, including ensuring alignment between learning objectives, teaching methods, and examinations.  

Related to General Medicine specifically:

(The course coordinator is responsible for initiating and coordinating efforts to recruit tutor doctors as well as ensuring that these are both professionally and pedagogically able to fulfill their role.)

The course coordinator is responsible for designing the exam in accordance with the curriculum and for selecting examiners, etc., in collaboration with the team coordinator.

For the oral exam in General Medicine during the acute- chronic semester, the course coordinator is responsible for designing the exam and recruiting examiners, internal censors, etc., for the execution of the exam.

It is the responsibility of the team coordinator, in collaboration with the study management, to ensure that the available examiners are professionally and pedagogically qualified for the respective examination activities.

The course coordinator continuously answers questions from the students regarding the exam.

An overview of exams can be found on the Study Portal for the respective programme.

Course evaluation

The course coordinator is responsible for ensuring that each course is evaluated in accordance with the AU quality model and for ensuring follow-up/feedback on the evaluations to the study board, teachers, and students. The head of studies involves the head and deputy head of the Department by sending the minutes from the study board meeting where the evaluations are discussed, indicating how those specific evaluations where problems have been identified are being addressed. The head of studies, the head and the deputy head of the Department subsequently meet for a discussion.

Any issues are raised within the relevant team, and solutions to the problems are agreed upon.

The head of studies, in collaboration with the department management and the deputy Department head for education, ensures the continuous development, both academically and pedagogically, of courses and exams in a given programme. Additionally, they ensure that teachers and examiners are involved in the process to the extent that it is relevant.