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Lecturer(s)
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Chmelař Jindřich, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Lectures content: 1. What is biomedicine? An introductory overview of the field where biology meets medicine, the history of the field, significant milestones, and discoveries. 2. Main areas and trends in biomedical research, linking basic research with the development of new technologies, therapeutic and diagnostic procedures, specifics of clinical research, the biomedical industry, career opportunities in the field 3. Skeletal system 4. Muscular system 5. Skin system 6. Respiratory system 7. Cardiovascular system 8. Immune system 9. Endocrine system 10. Nervous system 11. Digestive system 12. Excretory and reproductive systems 13. Project and experiment in experimental biomedicine how to design a project, ethical and legal aspects in clinical and biomedical research Practicals content: The exercises take the form of student presentations. Working in pairs, students choose a topic from a prepared list - a genetic, metabolic, autoimmune, or other disease - and prepare a presentation in which they introduce the disease from the perspective of its pathology, diagnosis, treatment, social impact, and other relevant aspects. The presentation should include the analysis of an original research article. The aim is to teach students how to work with scientific literature and find essential information in it. The condition for credit is a completed presentation and attendance at at least 75% of the seminars (3 absences from 13 seminars are allowed). The first seminar is devoted to the basics of working with scientific literature.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Projection, Individual preparation for exam
- Class attendance
- 52 hours per semester
- Preparation for credit
- 20 hours per semester
- Preparation for exam
- 15 hours per semester
- Preparation for classes
- 15 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to introduce students to biomedicine as a scientific field that today not only includes a wide range of intersecting scientific disciplines and areas of research, but also represents an ever-growing and developing industry in which human health plays a major role. Students will be introduced to the main areas and trends in biomedical research, the basic principles of the functioning of the human body and its individual organ systems at the organismal, tissue, cellular, molecular, and biochemical levels. In seminars, students will learn about selected diseases, especially non-infectious ones, the mechanisms of their pathologies, and the possibilities of diagnosis and treatment in the form of student presentations. Ethical aspects (clinical studies, animal experiments, etc.) will also be discussed. The course should prepare beginning students of biological disciplines, especially Laboratory and Medical Biology, for further specialized courses and enable them to think about individual biological processes or disciplines in a broader context.
Students know main areas and trends in biomedical research and development Studnets understand basic principles of human body functions at organismal, tissue, cellular, molecular and biochemical level.
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Prerequisites
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High school level of knowledge on the human biology.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination, Seminar work
Test at minimum 50% of points. Presentation of selected topic at practicals, 75% attendance at practicals
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Recommended literature
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Alberts, B., Bray, D., Lewis, J., Raff, M., Roberts, K., Watson, J.D. Molecular Biology of the Cell. Garland Publishing, Inc. NY, 1998. ISBN 0-8153-1620-8.
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Hořejší, V., Bartúňková, J. Základy imunologie. Prah Triton, 2009.
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Kindt TJ., Goldsby R.A., Osborne B.A. Kuby Immunology (6th ed.), W.H. Freeman and Copany, New York 2007, 574.
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Rokyta, R. a kol. Fyziologie. Praha, ISV, 359 s., 2000.
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Rokyta, R., Šťastný, F.:. Struktura a funkce lidského těla. Praha: Tigis. 2002.
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Silbernagl, S., Despopoulos, A. Atlas fyziologie člověka. Praha Grada, 2004.
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Vodrážka,Z. Biochemie, Academia Praha, 2007. 2007.
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