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ENGLISH DIVISION - STUDY PROGRAM |
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ENGLISH DIVISION - STUDY PROGRAM |
First year curriculum Second year curriculum Third year curriculum Fourth year curriculum Fifth year curriculum Sixth year curriculum
The first year of study is mainly designed to provide instruction in macroscopic and microscopic morphology of man. Furthermore, students receive the essential knowledge of medical chemistry, social medicine, emergency care and ecology.
Gross Anatomy (270 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, corpse dissection and demonstrations of the macroscopic structure of the human body.
Exam: written and practical at the end of the second semester.Histology and Embryology (120 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and demonstrations of the microscopic structure of the human body and general embryology (including teratology).
Exam: written and practical at the end of the second semester.Man and Environment (40 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, seminars and demonstrations. It provides the concept of the relationship between man and environment.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the second semester.Medical Chemistry (65 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and laboratory classes. It provides a knowledge in the structure of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, buffers, kinetics, and thermodynamics. Pass/fail assessment at the end of the first semester.
Biochemistry I (85 hours of instruction to be continued in the second year of study). The course includes lectures, laboratory classes and seminars. Students are given an essential knowledge of the biosynthesis and function of proteins, nucleic acids, oxidative metabolism and bioenergy in the living organisms.
Exam: written at the end of the second semester.Emergency Care (45 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and practical classes performed in well equipped hospitals. It gives a theoretical and practical knowledge of life-saving
management in casualty and emergency cases.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the first semester.Medical Informatics (22 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and practical classes with IBM PC computers and gives basic knowledge and skills in operating a personal computer.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the second semester.Physical training (90 hours of instruction).Throughout the entire study students may practice sport and attend sport trainings in gyms, swimming pools and other sport facilities.
Foreign languages:
Polish (120 hours of instruction to be continued in the second year of study).
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the second semester.Latin (60 hours of instruction).
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the second semester.
The second year of study is mainly designed to provide instruction in the functioning of the human body at the macroscopic, microscopic and molecular levels.
Physiology (225 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, seminars and practical classes. Students receive an essential knowledge of normal functioning of human body with a special emphasis on its mechanisms.
Exam: written at the end of the second semester.Biochemistry II (125 hours of instruction continued from the first year). The course includes lectures, seminars and laboratory classes. Students are given an essential knowledge of the metabolism, biochemistry of tissues and organs.
Exam: written at the end of the first semester.Biophysics (45 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and practical classes. It provides the study of the physical structures of biological systems and general principles of the functioning of medical instrumentation.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the second semester.Cytophysiology (49 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and practical classes. It provides the essential knowledge of the normal functions of cells and their components.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the first semester.Medical Genetics (40 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and practical classes. Students are given the basic knowledge of genetic principles, their mechanisms and environmental relationships.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the second semester.Immunology (42 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and seminars and students are given the essential knowlege of the functioning of the immune systems, mechanisms of immunoreaction at cellular and molecular levels.
Exam: written at the end of the second semester.Philosophy (30 hours of instruction). The course of lectures is a presentation of selected fundamental questions concerning knowledge, science and morality combined with critical discussion of views of some influential philosophers of the Western tradition.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the first semester.Polish language (120 hours of instruction continued from the second year of study).
Exam: written and oral at the end of the second semester.
The third year of study is mainly designed to provide instruction in preclinical pathology, pathophysiology, microbiology and pharmacology. It gives, therefore an introduction to the theory of disease. Students start their clinical clerkship in Introduction to Medicine.
Pathologic Anatomy (225 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, seminars and practical classes in histopathology and autopsies. It provides the study of macro- and microscopical, pathological alterations of the human body and its organs.
Exam: written at the end of the second semester.Pathophysiology (90 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and seminars. It provides the study of the altered functions of the human body and its organs caused by, resulting in and resulting from diseases.
Exam: written at the end of the second semester.Medical Microbiology (105 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and practical classes. It provides the principles of bacterial, mycological and viral systematics, diagnostic methods, selected problems of immunology, genetics, treatment and epidemiology of microorganisms.
Exam: written at the end of the second semester.Foundations of Medical Parasitology (20 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and laboratory classes. The programme offers the basic knowledge of parasites infacting humans, the region-dependent health treaths caused by parasitic infactions, and their epidemiology.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the first semester.Pharmacology (45 hours of instruction to be continued in the fourth year of study). The course includes lectures and seminars. It provides the principle facts and theories on rational pharmacotherapeutics as well as recognition of basic benefits, liazards and complications of treatment.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the second semester.Introduction to Medicine (131 hours of instruction to be continued in the fourth and fifth years of study). The course includes lectures and clinical clerkships. It provides the basic principles of diagnosis in internal diseases, i.e. physical egamination of patients, accessory investigations as well as its planning.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Introduction to Paediatrics (105 hours of instruction to be continued in the fourth, fifth and sixth years of study). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships in children's hospitals. Students are taught appropriate techniques of careful history taking and performing physical examination as well as interpretation of the results.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Medical Psychology (30 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and practical classes. It provides the principles of medical activity together with psychological and psychosomatic aspects of medicine as required in general practice.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the first semester.Laboratory Medicine (40 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, seminars and practical classes. It provides the essential knowledge and skills required in immunochemical, enzymatic and haemathological techniques applied in clinical practice.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the second semester.History of Medicine (30 hours of iustruction). The course includes lectures and seminars. Students are given information on the development of medicine from its magical period until contemporary times.
Exam: oral at the end of the first semester.
The fourth year of study is mainly designed to provide instruction in the study of diseases affecting various organs. Students have their clinical clerkships in regular hospital wards, participate in seminars, demonstrations and lectures.
Pharmacology (105 hours of instruction continued from the third year of study). The course includes lectures and seminars. The programme offers knowledge of drug chemistry in health and disease, dosage, side effects, toxicity, as well as the principles of prescribing.
Exam: written at the end of the second semester.Internal Medicine (198)hours of instruction continued from the third year of study). The course includes lectures, seminars and clinical clerkships. Students are given the foundation of cardiology (part I), pneumonology, haemathology and rheumatology.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of each course.Paediatrics (95 hours of instruction continued from the third year of study). The course includes lectures, seminars and clinical clerkships in children's hospitals. It provides basic study in child development, diseases of the alimentary tract and endocrine glands, metabolic diseases as well as acute and chronic diseases of the central nervous system.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.General Surgery (90 hours of instruction to be continued in the fifth and sixth year of study). The course includes lectures and clinical clerkships including participation in surgical operations, clinical and radiological conferences and hospital duties.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Child Psychiatry (17 hours of instruction). The course in seminars and clinical clerkships. It provides diagnostics assesment and clinical training in child and adolescent psychopathology.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the first semester.Dermatology and Venerology (90 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, seminars and clinical clerkships. It provides informations on the most common skin diseases, pathological alterations of the skin due to drugs as well as various systemic diseases. The course in venerology provides knowledge on sexually transmitted diseases.
Exam: written at the end of the second semester.Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology (50 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, seminars and practical classes. The training covers epidemiology, statistics, the principles of prevention of disease and promotion of health, assessment of health needs, nutrition, diet, environmental health, occupational health.
Exam: written at the end of the first semester.Medicine of Catastrophes (32 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures on medical aspects of disasters and catastrophes, radioactive contamination, international humanitarian law.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the second semester.Ethics in Medicine (30 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and seminars. Students are given knowledge of the genesis and evolvement of morality, utilitarian and natural law ethics, the ethical aspects of procreation, the moral problems of genetics, experiments on human beings, psychiatry, and problems of social justice.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the second semester.Pediatric Otolaryngology (14 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and practical classes. Students receive knowledge of: ENT examination, emergency cases in pediatric otolaryngology,surgery of the nose and paranasal sinuses, basic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in pediatric otolaryngology;
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.
The fifth year of study is mainly designed to provide instruction on diseases affecting various organ systems. Students have their clinical clerkships in regular hospital wards, participate in seminars, demonstrations and lectures.
Internal Medicine (146 hours of instruction continued from the fourth year of study). The course includes lectures,seminars and clinical clerkships. Students receive knowledge of cardiology (part II), nephrology, gastroenterology and endocrinology.
Exam: written, oral and practical at the end of the second semester.Paediatrics (85 hours of instruction continued from the fourth year of study). The course includes lectures,seminars and clinical clerkships in paediatric hospitals. The course provides the study of diseases in neonates, recognition of metabolic blocks, paediatric nephrology, angiology and toxicology.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.General Surgery (90 hours of instruction continued from the fourth year of study). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships with participation in surgical operations and hospital duties.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Paediatric Surgery (25 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships. It provides the study of early diagnosis and therapy with particular emphasis on congenital heart defects.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Infectious Diseases (75 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, seminars and clinical clerkships. The clinical clerkships include instruction in the Intensive Care Unit. The course provides general knowledge of diagnosis, clinical picture, prophylaxis and treatment of infectious diseases.
Exam: written or oral at the end of the second semester.Neurology (75 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships. It gives the principles of diagnosis and treatment in life-threatening diseases.
Exam: written at the end of the first semester.Neurosurgery (30 hours of instruction). The course includes seminarsand clinical clerkships. It provides the essential knowledge of the most common neurosurgical cases as observed in general practice.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Orthopaedics & Traumatology (60 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships. It gives the principles of the orthopaedic examination, radiodiagnosis of the skeletal system, surgery of hand and leg, neoplasins in orthopaedics as well as traumatology.
Exam: written and oral at the end the first semester.Obstetrics and Gynaecology (120 hours of instruction to be continued in the sixth year). The course includes lectures, seminars and clinicalclerkships. It provides the essential knowledge of gestation, birth and sexual life.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Anaesthesiology (60 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, seminars and clinical clerkships plus visits to the operating theatres, intensive care units and postoperative units. It gives the principles of administration and action of anaesthetics, preoperative and postoperative treatment, treatment chronic pain.
Exam: written at the end of the second semester.Imaging Diagnostics (90 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, seminars and clinical clerkships. It provides information onthe principles of ultrasonography, radioimmunology, radiological and nuclear imaging of different tracts and organs.
Exam: oral or written at the end of the first semester.
The sixth year of study is mainly designed to provide instruction on diseases affecting various organ systems. Students have their clinical clerkships in regular hospital wards, participate in seminars, demonstrations and lectures.
Clinical Genetics (30 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, seminars and practical classes. It gives the essentials on the significance of genetic factors in disease, prenatal diagnosis, genetic defects of metabolism and ethical problems of clinical genetics.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Clinical Pharmacology (25 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and seminars. It provides the essential knowledge of pharmacological treatment in terminal state, chemotherapy in oncology, treatment of headache, geriatric pharmacology and that of developmental age.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Paediatrics (60 hours of instruction continued from the fifth year). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships in paediatric hospitals and offers the essential knowledge of paediatric haematology, pulmonology and oncology.
Exam: written and practical at the end of the second semester.General Surgery (90 hours of instruction continued from the fifth year). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkshipsincluding participation in surgical operations and hospital duties. The course provides the essential knowledge of acute diseases of the abdomen, surgery of the gastrointestinal tract and minor surgical procedures done at outpatient clinic.
Exam: oral/written and practical at the end of the second semester.Urology (30 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships. It provides the essential knowledge of urology as required in general practice.
Exam: oral at the end of the course.Obstetrics and Gynaecology (120 hours of instruction continued from the fifth year). The course includes lectures,seminars and clinical clerkships. It gives the foundation of obstetrics and gynecology. Students are expected to take a residental course in obstetric wards.
Exam: oral and practical at the end of the first semester.Otorhinolaryngology (60 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships. It gives the principles of diseases and traumatology of the head, neck, ear as well as deals with the main problems of audiology and otoneurology.
Exam: oral at the end of the second semester.Ophtalmology (60 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships. It gives the essential knowledge of pathological alterations in the eye-ball in systemic diseases ans eye-ball traumatology.
Exam: oral at the end of the second semester.Forensic Medicine (55 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships. It gives the essential knowledge of medical legal aspects in pathology,semeiotic and criminology.
Exam: oral at the end of the second semester.Oncology (45 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures, seminars and clinical clerkships. It provides an introduction to actiology of malignant tumours, their epidemiology, diagnosis and radio – and chemiotherapy.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Rehabilitation (30 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and practical classes with patients. It focuses on recognition of the goals and role of rehabilitation in trauma of the nervous system, spinal cord as well as the problems of geriatrics.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Introduction to Dentistry (15 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures. It provides the essential knowledge of dental surgery, orthodontics, the problem of caries and diseases of the oral mucosa.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Transplantation Medicine (25 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships. It integrates knowledge from different fields related to organ grafting and provides the information how to deal with problems encountered in organ transplant patients.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Clinical Immunology (30 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships. It provides the updated information on practical aspects of immunology and some aspects of organ-based immunopathology.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Familial Medicine (50 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and clinical clerkships. It gives the principles of diagnostic, treatment and management problems in general practice.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Geriatrics (22 hours of instruction). The course includes lectures and clinical clerkships. It gives the principles of biology of aging, geriatric and social aspects.
Pass/fail assessment at the end of the course.Psychiatry (120 hours of instruction). The course includes seminars and clerkships. It provides knowledge of examination of psychiatric patient, general psychopathology, organic menthal disorders.
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