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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:4 / 6
Course supervisor:Ingus Skadiņš
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Pharmacy
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine; Microbiology and Virology

Objective

To acquire knowledge about the spread, principles of classification, morphology, characteristics, methods for cultivation and identification of micro-organisms, fungi and viruses.

Prerequisites

In biology, anatomy, histology, biochemistry.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

After completing the study course, students will be able to describe micro-organisms and the most relevant human parasites, describe their prevalence in the environment, understand and explain their pathogenicity and role in the origin of infectious diseases and interaction processes with macro-organisms.

Skills

As a result of completing the study course, students will be able:
• to investigate finished dosage forms;
• to apply disinfection and sterilisation methods in the production process of pharmaceutical preparations;
• to evaluate the aetiology of illnesses, sources of infection, transmission routes, pathogenesis, epidemiological hazard, prevention.

Competence

By combining theoretical knowledge with practical skills, students will have the opportunity to apply them in the form of a unified integrative understanding of the importance of bacterial and viral pathogenicity factors in the aetiology of the disease, and will be able to apply them to the mechanisms of pathogenesis and interaction with the host organism.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Pharmacy, FF3Master’sRequiredJuta Kroiča, Ingus Skadiņš, Anastasija Dovbenko
Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Pharmacy, FF2Master’sRequiredAnastasija Dovbenko, Juta Kroiča, Ingus Skadiņš