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About Study Course

ECTS:8
Course supervisor:Violeta Mavčutko
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Clinical medicine; Public and environmental health

Objective

To acquire knowledge about the basic principles of healthy nutrition, about food hygiene and related risk factors, food contamination, food-borne diseases. EU and Latvian laws and regulations.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.As a result of completing the study course, the medical resident will acquire knowledge about the basic principles of healthy nutrition, about food hygiene and related risk factors, food contamination, food-borne diseases. EU and Latvian laws and regulations.

Skills

1.As a result of completing the study course, the resident will be able to assess the observance of hygiene norms in a facility involved in food business, identify the risk factors associated with it, and will be able to provide recommendations for the development of measures to reduce the impact of risk factors on human health.

Competence

1.As a result of completing the study course, the medical resident will become competent and will be able to independently visit a food facility, identify and evaluate potential risk factors, and make proposals for the prevention thereof.