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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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Content of lectures: 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
- Preparation for classes
- 15 hours per semester
- Preparation for exam
- 15 hours per semester
- Class attendance
- 52 hours per semester
- Preparation for credit
- 20 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The main course objective is to initiate students into the broad research field of biomedicine, which involves not only wide range of interconnected research disciplines, but is one of the most developing and growing area of industry, focused on human health. This makes biomedicine very attractive and perspective field of study. Students will familiarize themselves with main areas and trends in biomedical research, basic principles of human body functioning at organismal, tissue, cellular, molecular and biochemical level. Chosen human pathological states or diseases will be used to show the interconnection among various biomedical disciplines. Ethical and legal aspects of biomedical and clinical research will be discussed. The course should prepare students for further, more specialized subjects and should enable them to think about individual biological processes in broader perspective.
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
Successful completion of the written examination with a minimum score of 50%. Presentation of selected topic at practicals, 75% attendance at practicals
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Recommended literature
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OWEN, Judith A., Jenni PUNT a Sharon A. STRANFORD. Kuby immunology. Seventh edition. International edition. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4641-3784-6..
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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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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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