Demographic epidemiology

Course: Laboratory Diagnostics (Master)

Structural unit: Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center

Title
Demographic epidemiology
Code
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
Demonstrate the deepening of basic knowledge through self-education, demonstrate the ability to present and evaluate their own experience and analyze and apply the experience of colleagues, demonstrate the ability to share experiences with other professionals. Provide counseling related to professional activities. Comply with the requirements of job descriptions, self-improvement. Perform and use laboratory research techniques to diagnose diseases, determine the characteristics of severity, period and duration of the disease, prognosis, control of treatment and its results. Take measures to organize, integrate laboratory care and marketing of laboratory services. Coordinate, modify and combine different research methods in order to perform typical and atypical professional tasks.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Successful mastering of disciplines "Virology", "Virology with virological diagnostics", "Epidemiology". 2. Be able to independently apply knowledge of general virology, microbiology, immunology, etc. academic disciplines to solve specific scientific and practical problems, work with scientific and scientific-methodical literature. 3. Have basic skills in developing recommendations for the prevention and control of this disease, the formation of a forecast of the spread of the disease under study.
Course content
The course is a free choice of the student (choice of blocks) in the specialization "Laboratory Diagnostics" highlights the system of skills on the basis of the study of the causes, conditions and mechanisms of the disease. The discipline teaches to determine the components of epidemiological surveillance; indicators of the state of health of the population, their origin, the role in the formation of effective policy of the public health system. The discipline is designed to know the basics of epidemiology, methods and tools of epidemiological research; epidemiological bases of socially significant non-communicable diseases and socially dangerous infectious diseases, features in Ukraine and the world.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Andriychuk O.M. Collection of situational tasks and test tasks in epidemiology (textbook for preparing for practical exercises). - 2020 - p. 115. 2. O.M. Andreichuk, G. V. Koroteeva, A. V. Molchanets, A. V. Kharina. Viral infections of humans and animals: epidemiology, pathogenesis, features of antiviral immunity, therapy and prevention. Tutorial. Kyiv 2013. 3. Andriychuk O.M. Epidemiology of viral infections. Textbook (course of lectures) - M .: TsOP "Globe". - 2014. 4. Andriychuk O.M., Koroteeva G.V. Guidelines for the special courses "Epidemiology of Viral Infections" and "Pathogeny of Viral Infections" (program, topics of seminars and self-study). LLC "DIA", Kyiv. 2011.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, practical classes, independent work
Assessment methods and criteria
Semester assessment: modular tests, presentations / reports, oral answers / additions, tasks, assessment of practical tasks. Final assessment: in the form of a credit.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olena Mykolaivna Andriichuk
Department of Virology
Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Virology
Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center