ANATOMY 1 Name of the Department: Department ... - Biomeedikum

MICROBIOLOGY
Name of the Department: Department of Medical Microbiology
Head of the Department: Professor Marika Mikelsaar
Name of the Chair: Medical Microbiology and Virology
Head of the Department: Professor Marika Mikelsaar
Subject codes: ARMB.01.009; ARMB.01.012; ARMB.01.013;
ARMB.01.01.14; ARMB.01.015; ARMB.01.020;
ARMB.01.027; ARMB.01.033
I. CONTENT OF THE TEACHING
The aim of our department is to teach on the graduate level the medical microbiology
to the medical, dentistry and pharmacy students in order to provide
knowledge for solving the problems of
1. common, hospital and emerging infectious diseases, concerning their epidemiology,
pathogenesis, diagnostics, treatment and prophylaxis in their
praxis;
2. coexistence with the huge burden of indigenous microorganisms in our
body and environment for successful protection of the health of a particular
person and the population.
1. Describe shortly the main study and student evaluation methods applied at
the department.
In the department the main study methods are:
• lectures: obligate courses in general, special, clinial microbiology and elective
courses for different problems of microbiology
• seminars
• laboratory praxis
• seminar + conference
• directed self-education
• students research work in the department
For evaluation the oral and written exam and +/- tests are used.
2. How have the aims and objectives described in the curriculum changed
during the past five years?
The described aims have been traditionally characteristic for teaching of microbiology
during many years in University of Tartu. Yet, during the last 2
years the aims of microbiology teaching have been increasingly oriented towards
more intense teaching of students in clinical than in systematic microbiology.
Our new curriculum from 1998 aims to provide the students with con-
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