This year we deliberately decided against Christmas greetings by mail and instead opted for a tree donation.

The introduction of digitally supported examinations in the crafts sector has already been offering many advantages in individual skilled crafts organizations for several years. The change from paper-based to digitally supported examinations is taking place gradually. In addition, the Corona pandemic has given a boost to digitization in everyday teaching and working life, and thus also in the examination system. Since November 2020, the ProNet Handwerk team has been working on how the examination process in the crafts sector can be streamlined and simplified nationwide with the help of digitally supported examinations. The goal is to establish examination software that is precisely tailored to the requirements of the crafts sector.

When we started using tablet-based OSCE exams in 2012, we did not expect how much this UCAN tool would change the UCAN world.

Dear UCAN partners,
there is no substitute for personal contact with our users and their direct feedback. Therefore, we would like to invite you to participate in our monthly jour fixe “Meet the developers”.

Dear UCAN partners,
there is no substitute for personal contact with our users and their direct feedback. Therefore, we would like to invite you to participate in our monthly jour fixe “Meet the developers”.

The next German-language UCAN conference is scheduled for September 29-30, 2022. It will be hosted by our partners from the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Leipzig with the hygiene regulations currently in place. Save today the date of our UCAN Conference 2022. Further information will follow shortly.

We have received feedback from many technical administrators of the UCAN network that the organisation of the technical task force meetings in combination with the UCAN conferences was perceived as very positive. We have also always had very good experiences with it and would like to continue this for the coming UCAN conference this year.
Against this background, a working meeting of the Technology Taskforce is planned for 28 September 2022 in Leipzig. We would be pleased if you would make a note of this date in your calendar.

The Medical Faculty of the University Hospital Bonn has a vacancy for the position “Coordinator (m/f/d) Digital Examinations” in full-time (38.5 hrs./week) as soon as possible.

This year, UCAN is looking back on 15 years of collaborative research, development of innovative examination formats, sharing of resources, and the development, implementation and evaluation of assessment standards. For the 15th anniversary we have written an annual report which can be downloaded here.

This August, the Institute for Communication and Assessment Research was represented at the annual meeting of the virtual AMEE conference.

We would like to invite you to the next UCAN Virtual Conference 2021 on September 30, 2021. Please use the online form in the blog post to register.

The UCAN network is now the largest association of medical faculties at both national and international level. The exchange of exam questions and knowledge are essential pillars of our close cooperation. We are therefore very pleased that with the accession of the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University Hospital Jena, 65% of the German medical faculties are now members of the UCAN network. This speaks to the fact that more and more faculties are using and appreciating the UCAN tools for standardizing the assessment processes within their institution. We look forward to the new collaborations and welcome our new partners to UCAN.