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About Study Course

Department: Residency Unit
ECTS:5
Course supervisor:Ojārs Teteris
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:English, Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Clinical medicine; Forensic science

Objective

To prepare forensic medicine residents to take the forensic histology course in order to be able to pass the certification exam and work independently in the specialty.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.To describe the microscopic changes in tissue in cases of violent and sudden death.

Skills

1.Perform histological examination methods and manipulations, remove and send objects for histological examination, recognize in histopreparations for pathologies, as well as the characteristic signs of various types of death and tissue changes, assess the time of survival of the trauma (process), make a histological diagnosis, interpret the results of histological examination in the opinion of the forensic medical examination of the corpse.

Competence

1.Carry out histological examinations and use them in practical forensic examinations.