Biochemia Medica, Vol. 18 No. 2, 2008.
Editorial
Education of Masters of Science in Medical Biochemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb: How did we fit in the Bologne process
Tihana Žanić Grubišić
; Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The recent reform of the university education in Republic of Croatia is undertaken to attain the main objectives set up by Bologna Declaration on promoting global competitiveness of European Higher Education. The Declaration that was signed by 29 countries is the common commitment to reform the structures of respective higher education system in a convergent way and to produce the national framework of readable and comparable degrees. New concept for the university degree in Medical Biochemistry is particularly emphasising the multidisciplinary character of the profession in order to enable application of scientific knowledge in the medical context. Curriculum is harmonised with the recommendations that are accepted in the majority of European countries, and consists of an integral five years programme leading to the degree of Master in Medical Biochemistry. The multidisciplinary approach is achieved by introducing various disciplines into curriculum: 1. Fundamental natural sciences; 2. Biomedical disciplines (anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, histology, cytology, immunology, microbiology and parasitology, etc.); 3. Professional medical biochemistry disciplines (clinical biochemistry, haematology, coagulation, clinical immunology, blood banking, analytical toxicology, molecular diagnostics, etc.; and knowledge, competences and skills in communication, laboratory management, automation, and informatization of laboratory system. The relative proportion of the subjects during the five year study is: 28% fundamental natural sciences, 12% of biomedical, 45% professional and 15% elective subjects. The fundamental and professional subjects would be intensively correlated, and training in the hospital laboratory will start already from the first year. The ECTS credits will be assigned to the each subject, and student mobility would be encouraged. There will be great cooperation with the teaching hospitals related to Faculty, in particular for the courses Integral laboratory diagnostics and Professional laboratory practice.
At completion of the new Medical Biochemistry curriculum the graduate would have a through knowledge of all aspects of medical biochemistry science relevant to the discipline, and competences to organize laboratory practice and apply current techniques, to evaluate the diagnostic data and to provide an expert opinion in the medical team, or to pursue a career in the fundamental and applied scientific research. The new concept comprises relevant knowledge in clinical cytology, microbiology, clinical immunology, blood banking, analytical toxicology, molecular diagnostics thus concurring with the current trends in Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine.
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Publication date:
5.6.2008.
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