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Course Unit Descriptor Faculty
GENERAL INFORMATION
Study program
Medicine
Study Module (if applicable)
Course title
Clinical Biochemistry
☐Bachelor
Level of study
Type of course
Semester
☐ Master’s
☐ Doctoral
☐ Academic integrated study
☐ Obligatory
☐ Autumn
☐ Elective
☐Spring
Year of study
4th
Number of ECTS allocated
2
Name of lecturer/lecturers
Prof. dr Dusica Pavlovic, Prof.dr Gordana Kocić, Prof dr Ivana
Stojanovic, Prof dr Tatjana Cvetkovic, Prof dr Tatjana JevtovicStoimenov, Prof dr Dusan Sokolovic, Assist prof dr Jelena Basic
Teaching mode
☐Lectures
☐Group tutorials
☐ Individual tutorials
☐Laboratory work
☐ Project work
☐ Seminar
☐Distance learning ☐ Blended learning
☐ Other
PURPOSE AND OVERVIEW (max. 5 sentences)
The purpose of the course of Clinical Biochemistry is to provide students with:
 acquisition of knowledge about lab indicants characteristic for particular organ & system diseases, factors of
influence and their reference values;
 proper association of disease symptoms with clinical and lab findings for the purpose of timely diagnosis and
treatment;
 ability to select rationally diagnostic and follow-up lab parameters;
 experience using the acquired knowledge about lab findings in clinical problem solving;
 comprehensive understanding of the abilities of clinical biochemistry procedures and development of abilities of
critical assessment of methods and techniques in clinical biochemistry, and the significance of obtained results for
disease treatments.
SYLLABUS (brief outline and summary of topics, max. 10 sentences)
Biochemical aspect of hematopoesis
Lab diagnosis of liver and digestive system diseases
Biochemical characteristics of urine and kidney diseases
Biochemical diagnosis of myocardial and skeletal muscles diseases
Functional assessment of the endocrine system
Metabolic characteristics of malignant tissues
Biochemical assessment of CNS and peripheral nervous system diseases
Biochemical aspects of gravidity. Prenatal diagnosis.
Biochemical diagnosis of metabolic disorders of the skeletal system
Biochemical characteristics of body fluids
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
☐Serbian (complete course)
☐ English (complete course)
☐ Other _____________ (complete course)
☐Serbian with English mentoring
☐Serbian with other mentoring ______________
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
Pre exam duties
Points 6
Final exam
points
Activity during lectures
2
Written examination
30
Practical teaching
8
Oral examination
_
Teaching colloquia
60
OVERALL SUM
100
*Final examination mark is formed in accordance with the Institutional documents