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About Study Course

ECTS:6
Course supervisor:Gundega Jākobsone
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Clinical medicine; Dentistry

Objective

To provide profound knowledge of the structure, embryonic development, maturation and ageing of tissues of the maxillofacial apparatus.
To provide an overview of modern tissue examination methods.
To provide an overview of the possibilities of using stem cells at present and in the future.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.Profound knowledge about structure of maxillofacial tissues.
Knowledge about development, growth and maturation of craniofacial structures. Mechanisms regulating this process.
Knowledge about cell metabolism under normal and abnormal conditions, tissue formation and proliferation.
Knowledge about tooth eruption.
Knowledge about modern understanding of stem cells, their use in medicine.

Skills

1.To know how to prepare histological preparations of soft and hard tissues of the maxillofacial region.
To be able to recognise and interpret histological preparations from the maxillofacial region.
To resolve situation tasks about histophysiology of differentiated cells.
Using an optical microscope and electron microscopic graphs to distinguish membrane embraced organoids and membraneless organoids, to characterise cell functions based on cell structure.
To recognise different tissue structures.

Competence

1.To be competent in histological examination of the maxillofacial region: methods and interpretation.