Department’s Internal Didactic Regulations
valid in academic year / 2017/2018full name of the Department / Department of Biology and Medical Parasitology
contact
(e- mail. phone no.) / e-mail: , phone no. +48 914661672
Head of the Department
(academic title, name and surname) / Prof. Elzbieta Kalisinska, DSc, PhD
Course coordinator (academic title, name and surname, e-mail, phone no.) / PhD Natalia Łanocha-Arendarczyk
e-mail:, phone no. +48 91 4661672
field of study / Medicine and Dentistry
year of studies / I
course/subject / Biology
§1
Teaching Methods
The course of Biology covers 40 hours including 15 hours of seminars and 25 hours of practical classes.
§2
Mode and forms of compensation of missed activities
1.Both seminars and practical classes are obligatory.
2.If you miss one class or seminar (covered by a doctor's leave or Dean's leave) you are obliged to learn the material from the missed seminars or practical classes on your own and then write an essay (based on literature) on the subject selected by the teacher.
3.If you miss more than 50%, you will not be able to finish the course: you will be excluded from the final test and you will not receive a credit.
§3
Requirements for course completion in order to sit the credit test or exam
- You may only take the final test after passing all partial tests and practical test (parasite identification on slides) and presentation by at least one week prior to the date of the final test.
§4
Principles of attending classes during the academic year*
- You are obliged to attend classes on time.
§5
Forms of credits, exams
1.You will have four partial tests during the semester: three theoretical (single choice) and one practical (parasite identification on slides). The first theoretical test will consist of 20 questions each (test time 20 min), while the second and third tests will contain 10 questions (10 min).
2. You will have 3 opportunities to pass each test (2 resit tests). The first date is given in the schedule on the board and at the Department's website. The dates of resit tests need to be agreed with the teacher.
§6
Circumstances of exemption from credit tests or exams
1.Students with a grade average of at least 4.5 (all class tests and presentation) will have a final test covering only seminar material.
§7
Form of admission to the pre-scheduled examination, referred to § 32 point 8 of Rules & Regulations
of PMU
Not required
§8
Assessment criteria
- Students may only take the final test after passing all partial tests and presentation, at least one week prior to the date of the final test.
- Students with a grade average of at least 4.5 (all class tests and presentation) will have a final test covering only seminar material. In such cases the final test grade will be determined as the average of the following three: class test averages (CT=30%), presentation (P=10%),and final test grade (FT=60%).
- The test will be a single-choice test (the passing limit is 60% correct answers). It will cover the material presented during seminars and classes: 30 and 20 questions each, respectively.
§9
Additional
if the specific nature of the subject requires extra information, please add it as a next points of these Regulations
- Students (in small teams) will prepare and present one work on a selected subject (PowerPoint and typed forms).
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Opinion:
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Time table of Biology
For 1st year students of the Faculty of Dentistry
Seminars and lab exercises
Academic year 2017-2018
Unit 1 (2 October 2017)
Seminar: Parasitism and its concepts Part 1; symbiosis and its types (e.g. parasitism); examples of parasitic organisms in taxonomical arrangement (biology, ecology, morphology, and epidemiology of most important parasite species), opportunistic parasites.
Exercise: Microscopic techniques
Unit 2 (9 October 2017)
Seminar: Parasitism and its concepts Part 2; examples of parasitic organisms in taxonomical arrangement (biology, ecology, morphology, and epidemiology of most important parasite species, opportunistic parasites)
Exercise: Morphology of parasites: Protista: Trichomonas vaginalis, Trichomonas tenax, Giardia lamblia
Unit 3 (16 October 2017)
Seminar and Exercise: Morphology of parasites: Protista (Amoebae and Apicomplexans): Entamoeba gingivalis, Entamoeba histolytica, Plasmodium vivax, Toxoplasma gondii, Trypanosoma gambiense, Trypanosoma cruzi
Unit 4 (23 October 2017)
Seminar: Essential elements (macro-, micro-, and ultra-elements) as well as toxic elements with particular emphasis on fluorine, mercury, lead, and cadmium.Rector’s hour’s.
Unit 5 (30 October 2017)
Seminar: Xenobiotics: the environmental factors, the tolerance range, the bioaccumulation, biotransformation, biomagnification
Exercise: Morphology of parasites: Flatworms: Digeneans: Schistosoma haematobium; Tapeworms (Cestoda): Taenia solium, Taenia saginata, Echinoccocus granulosus
Unit 6 (6 November 2017)
Seminar:Influence of mercury and fluoride on human health and environment
Exercise: Morphology of parasites: Roundworms: Nematodes: Ascarislumbricoides, Trichinella spiralis, Enterobius vermicularis, Trichuris trichiura
Unit 7 (13 November 2017)
Exercise:Morphology of parasites: Arthropods: Ticks: Ixodes ricinus; Mites: Demodex folliculorum, Sarcoptes scabiei; Insects: Pediculus humanus, Phtirus pubis, Pulexirritans, Cimex lectularius
Exercise:Cell cycle; sexual reproduction; cell division in prokaryotes, cell division in eukaryotes (mitosis).
Unit 8 (20 November 2017)
Test (classes 2-6)and parasite identification on slides.
Exercise: Meiosis.Gametogenesis: oogenesis and spermatogenesis. Hormonal regulation of oogenesis and spermatogenesis in humans.
Unit 9 (27 November 2017)
Seminar: Parameters characterising human populations and its diversity. Demographic explosion. Part 1
Seminar and Exercise:Chromosome structure in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Human chromosome types. Chromosomes X and Y. Sex chromatin, Barr body as well as Y body.
Unit 10 (4 December 2017)
Test (classes7 -8).
Seminar and Exercise: Cytogenetic diagnostics methods. Karyotype: normal, and abnormal. Chromosome aberrations; Down, Turner and Klinefelter syndromes. Karyotype preparation and chromosome bending techniques and their importance in cytogenetic diagnostic.
Unit 11 (11 December 2017)
Seminar:Parameters characterising human populations and its diversity. Demographic explosion. Part 2.
Exercise: Human genome; nuclear genome and mitochondrial genome. Mitochondrial diseases/disorders; gene concept; coding and non-coding DNA. Inheritance patterns. Antigens associated with red blood cells, blood types/blood groups (ABO, MN, Rh systems).
Unit 12 (18 December 2017)
SeminarandExercise: Disorders based on autosomal, dominant, autosomal recessive, and X-linked mutations. Theoretical genetic exercises.
Unit 13 (08 January 2018)
Seminar and Exercise: Test (classes9-12). Student presentations (toxicological and parasitological subjects)
Unit 14 (15 January 2018)
Exercise:Diagnostic methods in parasitology.
Unit 15 (22 January 2018)
Test retake
For 1st year students of the Faculty of Dentistry
Seminars and lab exercises
BIOLOGY
Academic year 2017-2018
Monday:10.30-12.45
English speaking students are under the supervision of Prof. Elżbieta Kalisińska and dr Natalia Łanocha-Arendarczyk.