This document provides important information about the exam for the ELMED219 course (last updated: 2024-12-28)
The digital home exam (expected workload
The digital home exam will take place in Inspera. Please make sure you are able to login to UiB/Inspera at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start time (more details at https://www.uib.no/en/student/125772/preparing-exams). Note: In addition to preparing yourself academically, you must also remember to check that your computer and login are ready to use at the examination. This is your responsibility as a student.
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The two hours digital home exam in ELMED219-2025 on Inspera consists of eight multiple-choice questions, each with five answer options, where there are two answers being "the most correct".
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This is followed by two free-text essay questions.
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The eight MCQ questions and the two essay questions are given in both English, Norsk bokmål, and Norsk nynorsk.
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All aids are allowed but specify precisely which aids you have had access to and how you used these sources (look-up, search, prompt) in your submitted answers. The exam allows the use of AI to understand and explain medical AI.
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The topics covered in the MCQ and the two essay questions are among the following (no coding is expected):
- Multimodal data
- Basics of Machine Learning
- “Open science”
- MRI technology
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- “Biomarker”
- Deep learning and overfitting
- PSN (“patient similarity networks”)
- The equation
$y \approx f(\mathbf{X}, \theta)$ - Machine learning in the diagnosis of diseases
- AI ethics, regulations, and thrustworthy AI
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For the 8 MCQ questions with 5 answer options each, you will get 3 points for exactly 1 correct answer, 5 points for 2 correct answers, 0 points otherwise.
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For each of the two essay questions, a particularly good answer is given 10 points; a particularly bad answer, or no answer, is given 0 points; each essay questions counts for 1/6 of the exam.
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The highest possible score on the complete exam is 60 points, the lowest possible score is 0 points.
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We will use the binary grading system with a tentative threshold of 20 points for passing the exam: 0-19 points is a fail, 20-60 is a pass (e.g. you will pass if you score at least 5 points on each of the essay questions and has at least one correct answer on at least 4 of the 8 MCQ questions; note that this is just an example, the actual grading and threshold will be set by the course responsible).
Side note: The probability of getting at least 10 points on the MCQ questions by chance is non-negligible, i.e. try to solve:
For each of 8 MCQ questions with 5 answer options each, 2 of the 5 options are correct. For each question, you will get 3 points for exactly 1 correct answer, 5 points for the maximum of 2 correct answers, and 0 points otherwise. What is the probability of getting 10 points or more by chance across the 8 MCQ questions?
Please refer to the course syllabus for more detailed information about the curriculum.
and remember ....
All aids are permitted during this home exam. However, please specify precisely which aids you have utilized, and how you used these sources (look-up, search, prompt) in your submitted answers. The exam allows the use of AI to understand and explain medical AI. Be sure to get time to answer the essay questions, as points here will help you to pass the exam.
Good luck with your preparation!