Final Thesis / final exam

Dates And Time Of Final Thesis Defense 2022

Clinic / Department / Center	Date and time of defense
Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynaecology	2022-06-03, 11:00 (MS Teams)
Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care	2022-06-01, 13:00 (MS Teams)
Clinic of Gastroenterology, Nephro-Urology, and Surgery	Abdominal, General, and Pediatric Surgery: 2022-06-03, 12:00 (MS Teams) Nephrology and Urology: 2022-06-03, 10:00 (MS Teams)
Clinic of Chest Diseases, Immunology, and Allergology	2022-06-02, 12:00 (MS Teams)
Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Dermatovenerology	2022-06-01, 13:45 (MS Teams)
Clinic of Neurology and Neurosurgery	2022-06-01, 10:00 (MS Teams) 2022-06-02, 10:00 (MS Teams)
Clinic of Rheumatology, Orthopaedics Traumatology, and Reconstructive Surgery	2022-06-02, 08:00 (MS Teams)
Clinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases	2022-06-02, 09:00 (MS Teams)
Clinic of Children's Diseases	2022-06-03, 10:00 (MS Teams)
Clinic of Emergency Medicine	2022-06-01, 12:00 (MS Teams)
Clinic of Psychiatry	2022-06-02, 14:00 (MS Teams)
Clinic of Ear, Nose, Throat, and Eye Diseases	Otorhinolaryngology 2022-06-03 11:00 (MS Teams) Ophthalmology 2022-06-03 11:00 ((MS Teams)
Department of Public Health	2022 -05-27, 8:30 (MS Teams)
Department of Nursing	2022-06-01, 10:30 (MS Teams)
Center of Medicine Ethics, Law and History	2022-06-02, 11:00 (MS Teams)
Department of Anatomy, Histology, and Anthropology	2022-06-03, 12:00 (MS Teams)

Final Thesis for Graduates

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Topics for the Final thesis can be accessed online via Vilnius University Information system (VU IS) after 1st of May until 1st of June. During this period, students should choose their topics following instructions below:

VU IS--E.student--My theses (selection of thesis title and thesis supervisor) and click that topic, which like you most.

If a student initiates and suggests own title for the Final thesis (discussed and agreed with the Supervisor beforehand), then it is obligatory to fill in an Application form, signed both by Student and the Supervisor which then has to be sent by email to the administrator of the relevant Clinic / Department not later than June 1st of the current year. The application must be written clearly (preferably printed) and error-free.

Approved final list of selected topics will be announced on the 15th of June on the VU IS.

Already published topics may be changed in case of the topic or supervisor change not later than begining of 12th semester. To do so the student must fill in the new Application form signed by both, the student and the Supervisor, and send it by email to the administrator of the relevant Department / Clinic.

The Final thesis are supervised by the academic or scientific staff of the Faculty of Medicine only. A non-faculty member may be a thesis consultant. The thesis are prepared and defended in the Department / Clinic where the supervisor is employed.

Submission of the final thesis: in accordance with the current Recommendations How to Prepare and Defend the Final Thesis for Medical Programme Students, the final thesis approved by the Supervisor must be sent in PDF format to the administrator of the relevant Department or Clinic by e-mail no later than May 20th and then loaded to VU IS.

Loading Final Theses to the Information System for Final-Year Students

Submission of final theses and metadata onto VUSIS is carried out in accordance with the Procedure for Administration of Written Works in the Information System of Vilnius University Studies.

It is important to note, that the procedure for final thesis submission is comprised of two parts: I - the uploading of the final thesis onto the VUSIS system and II - the submission of the final thesis to the administrator of the clinic/department by email:

Students should upload their final theses and their metadata (abstract and keywords) onto the information system of Vilnius University studies (VUSIS).
In cases where final theses have annexes, they must be integrated into the main body of the paper, i.e., only one document in pdf format should be uploaded onto the VUSIS.
Only after a paper is uploaded onto the VUSIS, does it become possible to complete a declaration. By completing the declaration, students confirm that their paper is prepared independently and honestly. If the student requires an embargo period to be attached to their thesis submission, this should be defined as part of the declaration. Whether the student needs an embargo and how long it should be, (up to a maximum of 60 months), should be discussed with the student’s supervisor.

Students should send a digital version of their final paper (pdf format) using their VU email, to the administrator of the relevant clinic/department via VU email and should include the following text in this email:

I, <given name and surname>,

1. Declare that my final thesis has been prepared independently and honestly and no other persons have contributed to the submitted paper. I have made no illegal payments for this paper. References and sources directly or indirectly quoted in the paper are indicated in the list of references;

2. Confirm that my final thesis and all its metadata have been uploaded onto the Information System of Vilnius University Studies.

Final theses must be submitted no later than 20 May 2022.

Contacts of Departments / Clinics Administrators

Institute of Biomedical Science:

Aušra Ruseckaitė - Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Physis, email:
Airida Dosinaitė - Department of Anatomy, Histology and Antropology, email:
Dalia Kuzminskienė - Department of Human and Medical Genetics, email:
Dovilė Karčiauskaitė - Department of Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine, email:
Reda Kolosova - Department of Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Pharmacology, email:

Institute of Health Science:

Greta Zambžickaitė - Department of Nursing - email:
Virginija Jaeck - Department of Public Health - email:
Irena Paulinienė - Department of Rehabilitation, Physical and Sports Medicine - email:
Margarita Poškutė - Center of Medicine Ethics, Law and History - email:

Institute of Clinical Medicine:

Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care -
Clinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases -
Clinic of Chest Diseases, Immunology and Allergology -
Clinic of Children's Diseases -
Clinic of Ear, Nose, Throat and Eye Diseases - (Ophthalmology); (Otorhinolaryngology)
Clinic of Emergency Medicine -
Clinic of Gastroenterology, Nephro-Urology and Surgery -
Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Dermatovenerology -
Clinic of Internal Deaseases, Family Medicine and Oncology -
Clinic of Neurology and Neurosurgery - (neurology) , (neurosurgery)
Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynaecology -
Clinic of Psychiatry -
Clinic of Rheumatology, Orthopaedics Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery -

The Final List of the Final Thesis Topics

Procedure for final examinations in the study programmes

Final examinations‘ procedure for the 6ths‘ year Medicine students

Final exam - course description

Date and time of examination: 8th of June, 2023.

The final examination will last: 3 hours.

The place and form of the examination, date of their announcement:

The final examination for the study of medicine will be held face-to-face at the Information Technology Service Centre of Vilnius University and/or at the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University. Due to the epidemiological situation, students will be divided into groups that will take the exam at different times (above). The number of exam questions and their presentation to students by automatic rotation ensures a variety of questions for all groups. It prevents the possibility of passing on the answers to other students. If the epidemiological situation changes, the final examination will be carried out remotely (with the measures of preventing academic dishonesty and plagiarism). About groups and other relevant information will be provided no later than two weeks until the scheduled exam date.

The structure of the final examination:

examination will consist of 200 questions - 140 theoretical and 60 practical questions;
each student will get different questions (the computer system randomly selects theoretical and practical questions from the final examination database);
students must answer the theoretical and practical questions consecutively (if the exam is taken remotely, there will be no possibility to return to the previous question);
depending on the number of correct answers to each question, proposed answers to the questions will be marked as follows:
- only one possible correct answer – answers are marked with a circle,
- one or more possible correct answers – answer options are marked with a square,
- there are no questions with no correct answer (each question has at least one correct answer);
answers to the questions are assessed as follows:
- if all the correct options of the answers are provided – “question answered correctly”;
- if only some correct answer options are provided, or no options are provided – “question answered incorrectly” (e.g. if there are four correct answer options, but only three are provided).

Final examination assessment:

A student passed the final examination if 101 questions [>50%] have been answered correctly. A 10-point scoring system is used. Percentage to score conversion:

93–100% of questions answered correctly: 10 points (excellent);
83.7–92.9% of questions answered correctly: 9 points (very good);
75.3–83.6% of questions answered correctly: 8 points (good);
66.9–75.2% of questions answered correctly: 7 points (average);
58.5–66.8% of questions answered correctly: 6 points (satisfactory);
50.1–58.4% of questions answered correctly: 5 points (weak);

4 points and less – minimum requirements have not been fulfilled:

0-50.0% of questions answered correctly – 4 points (unsatisfactory);
30.0–39.9% of questions answered correctly – 3 points (unsatisfactory);
20.0–29.9% of questions answered correctly – 2 points (unsatisfactory);
< 20% of questions answered correctly – 1 point (unsatisfactory).

Open access to the theoretical questions database on the Virtual Learning Environment (VMA) of the final examination for the 6th year Medicine students (course: Final Examination: Medicine) will be provided from 21st of March 2023 at 9:00 a.m. Access to practical questions of the examination will be provided from 25th of May 2023 at 9:00 a.m. until 7th of June at 9:00 p.m.

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