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Curriculum subject

Pathology

Subject
Subject code 5ITO13PT
Subject name Pathology
Credit points 2 ECTS
Grading method Nondistinctive
Curriculum subject
Curriculum 2014 TT
Study year 2
Semester Spring semester
Subject type Mandatory
Subject loads
Lecture 12
Seminar 14
Personal study 26
Aim
1 To provide an overview about general pathological changes at different levels of organism that are common to many or all diseases;
2 to discuss pathological changes and processes that run differently in different organ systems (focusing on the most widely spread internal diseases).
Study outcome
Having passed the subject, the student:
1 knows the essence of general pathology and is able to use the main concepts of general pathology;
2 knows alternative changes in case of which damages to tissues are dominant (dystrophy, necrosis, circulatory disorders);
3 has an overview about inflammatory processes, functioning of the immune system and immunopathology;
4 knows compensatory regenerative processes, also the essence and genetic mechanisms of tumours;
5 has prior knowledge about special pathology processes in case of the most widely spread internal diseases.
Current rounds
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