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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Ilze Štrumfa
Study type:Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Medicine; Nursing Science
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine

Objective

To provide studies in pathology, including morphological and functional manifestations of diseases, their pathogenesis. This aspect of the programme should provide theoretical grounds for the mastering of clinical and speciality-related courses creating a comprehensively educated professional. The pathology programme should include, in an integrated way, the progress of local and general pathological processes by developing a uniform idea of the morphological and functional components of disease pathogenesis in the student.

Prerequisites

Anatomy, histology, medical English, human physiology, cell biology, biochemistry.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

As a result of mastering a study course, the student will know and will be able to explain in a reasoned way the nature of individual diseases and general pathological processes; pathogenesis and its manifestations in clinical developments, imaging and laboratory examinations; causes and risk factors; potential complications and sequelae, as well as outcomes, to the extent permitted by the level of the study course.

Skills

To the extent permitted by the volume of the study course, the student will learn, through clinical tasks, to identify the most common pathologies, reasoned evaluation of the pathogenesis of the diseases referred to in the thematic plan of the course, associate it with clinical manifestations of diseases and diagnostic grounds, and to act practically organising the necessary laboratory examinations, interpreting and critically analysing their results in relation to the total picture of the disease.

Competence

Using the obtained knowledge, the student will develop competences in work with information and medical examination data.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Nursing Studies, LFMZFb3Bachelor’sRequiredDainis Balodis, Daina Lutinska
Nursing Studies, MZF3Bachelor’sRequiredDainis Balodis, Daina Lutinska
Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Nursing Studies, MZFz3Bachelor’sRequired
Nursing Studies, LFMZFbz3Bachelor’sRequired