Current Students

Welcome to the webpages for current Medical Engineering students!

In this virtual space, we have collected the most important information about your studies for you. If something is unclear and your question has not been answered in the FAQs , please contact your Study Advisor.

 

On the website below, the preliminary exam schedule of the current semester is provided. Please note that those data still might change on short notice. The data you can see in your exam registrations in Campo is the definitive and binding information. Date and time of exams are made available in Campo rather shortly before the exams. This is necessary due to the optimization of the use of room capacities. Website of the Examinations Office

  • VHB: Virtual University Bavaria (introduction)
  • Please register at  VHB with the study program “Gesundheitstechnik/Healthcare Technology”.
  • All courses that are offered by our lecturers of the FAU Medical Engineering program via VHB and are listed in your module catalog can be used for your studies without any problem. Please note, however, that other courses from VHB can only be accredited for your module group “Free Choice Uni”/M8 if they are graded and  if the grade is received via an on-site exam or an online exam with identity control (= ID check and video transmission during the exam) or written work such as essay etc. Online exams without identity control and supervision will not be accepted! VHB courses which are not offered by FAU lecturers from our Faculty of Engineering can generally not be used for “Flexible Budget Faculty of Engineering”. When you are in doubt if a VHB course can be used for your Medical Engineering degree, please contact your study advisor before taking the course.

Special information for international students can be found on our First Steps website.

  • From the start of the WS 24/25 examination periods, you have a maximum of 4 attempts for each module examination (mandatory course, compulsory elective or elective). This also applies to modules for which you have had a first or second failed attempt before WS 24/25 (those failed attempts will be deducted from the maximum of 4). The only exception from this new examination rule is the follwing: For the master’s thesis, you only have a maximum of 2 attempts. If you fail any of the mentioned examinations at the last attempt, your degree program is deemed to have been definitively failed and you will be de-registered from your study program. If you are in Germany on a study visa, this also results in you losing your visa.
  • You can withdraw from any examination (regardless of whether it is a first attempt or a repeat examination) up to the end of the third working day (Monday-Friday, public holidays do not count as working days) before the day of the examination. Example: If your exam takes place on a Monday, you can withdraw from it until 11.59 p.m. on the previous Wednesday. You can withdraw via the Campo portal during this period without giving a reason. Your registration for the exam will be deleted upon withdrawal and you will have to re-register for the exam the following semester if you wish to take it then.
  • You can still withdraw from any examination after the above-mentioned withdrawal period has expired as long as you can provide a valid reason. Permissible reasons include illness. In this case, you must immediately obtain a medical certificate for the examination day (a sample can be found here, but your doctor can also use any other format indicating the symptoms and diagnosis). Please note that your inability to take the exam cannot be confirmed retroactively. This means that you must always consult a doctor shortly before the day of the exam or on the day of the exam itself and obtain confirmation of how long you will be unable to take the exam. You must submit the certificate by e-mail together with this form (“Notification of illness”) to Ms. Jahreis (helga.jahreis[at]fau.de) at the Examinations Office as soon as possible, otherwise the examination will be graded with 5.0. You must then also send the original documents to Ms. Jahreis by post, but you have up to 7 days after the examination date to do so.
  • In exceptional cases, you can also withdraw from an examination very shortly before the examination date if you present other serious reasons. If you are unable to take the exam on the day of the exam for reasons beyond your control (e.g. unexpected traffic jam, accident or public transport strike), you must notify Ms. Jahreis (helga.jahreis[at]fau.de) from the Examinations Office immediately. Otherwise the examination will be graded with 5.0. The reasons for the withdrawal must be credibly explained to the Examinations Office in writing (with evidence, photos, etc.). You must then also send the original documents by post to Ms. Jahreis, but you have up to 7 days after the examination date to do so.
  • If you feel sick during an exmination and wish to withdraw from it after the exam sheets have already been handed out, you are obliged to consult an officially authorized medical doctor immediately. A list of the medical doctors who are officially authorized by FAU and further information on the required medical certificate can be found here. You must submit the medical certificate to Ms. Jahreis at the Examinations Office immediately after the examination.
  • If it is not possible for you to submit your medical certificate or other evidence by email before the examination or on the day of the examination, the Examination Office may grant you a grace period of a maximum of 7 days after the examination date to submit the missing documents. However, students are not entitled to this grace period.
  • If you complete the examination as normal, you confirm that you were healthy and fit to take the examination – a retroactive hardship application (also by means of a medical certificate etc.) is no longer possible.
  • If you do not appear for an examination for which you have registered and do not submit a certificate or other proof to the Examinations Office in good time, this examination will be counted as a failed attempt.
    This also applies if you only inform your lecturer (which is the polite thing to do, especially for smaller courses and oral examinations), but not the Examinations Office (you must always inform the latter!).
  • Students who are on maternity leave enjoy special protection and therefore benefit from special regulations regarding withdrawal from examinations. In this case, please contact our Examinations Office as early as possible.
  • If you have failed an examination in a determined semester, you will no longer be automatically registered by Campo-System for the repeat examination in the following semester as was previously the case. Instead, you can decide for yourself whether and when to register for the repeat examination(s). If it is a compulsory module (see your module catalogs), you must pass the exam in the fourth attempt at the latest, but you are free to decide in which semesters you would like to take the individual repeat exams. If it is a non-compulsory elective subject, you do not have to take a repeat examination of the same module after one or more failed attempts, but can choose other module examinations from the same module group instead. It is not necessary to deactivate the examinations you no longer wish to take, as you will not be automatically registered to retake them.
  • If you use unauthorized aids in an examination, copy from fellow students or communicate with them, the examination will be graded with a 5.0 and the case of cheating will be reported to our Examinations Office. The same applies to plagiarism and missing or incorrect citations in seminar papers and the master’s thesis. If several attempts at cheating are reported to our Examinations Office, you will be de-registered from the study program.
  • Passed exams cannot be repeated, even if you are unhappy with your grade.
  • Important! There is no guarantee that a certain course and its respective exam will be offered for a prolonged period of time. The responsible lecturer might leave FAU or not offer the respective course anymore at some point, which may result in a situation in which you technically have one or more exam attempts left but cannot take the repeat exam because it is not offered anymore. In those cases, you are not entitled to take your desired repeat exam. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you take your repeat exams at the earliest possible date.
  • Important! Your remaining exam attempts may conflict with your remaining period of studies! You can only make use of all of your 4 exam attempts if you still have 4 semesters of your study period left. As only 6 semesters are granted in the master’s program, you can only make full use of all of the potential attempts if you take the first exam attempt in your first, second or third semester and the repeat exams in the consecutive semesters. Please note that all exams only take place once per semester. If you reach the end of your study period and do not qualify for an extension of studies, you will be deregistered from the study program, even if you theoretically would have some exam attempts left.

Students with a disability or chronic illness can ask for disadvantage compensation for examinations (for example longer time for the exam or authorization of support). This applies to all physical and mental impairments lasting at least 6 months, as well as to illnesses that require at least one medical treatment per quarter over the course of one year. Disadvantage compensation does not require a disability card. Furthermore, it does not appear in the certificate documents. Please file  your petition for disadvantage compensation with our officer for students with disabilities. For further information, please click here.