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Microbiology and Pathology (1 cr)

Code: SH00DO01-3002

General information


Enrollment

06.01.2025 - 19.01.2025

Timing

27.01.2025 - 27.04.2025

Credits

1 op

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing

Teachers

  • Marika Toivonen

Student groups

  • SH25K
    Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Full-time studies

Objective

The student
- is able to identify the main concepts of pathology and name the causes of diseases.
- understand the diagnosis, causes, manifestations, prevention and treatment of the most common diseases and the medical classification of diseases.
- can describe the mechanism of pathogenesis of infectious diseases and the prevention of the body's defenses through an introduction to microbes, the normal human microbiota, the modes of transmission of infectious diseases and the microbes that cause infectious diseases.

Content

Key concepts in pathology and causes of diseases
Diagnosis, causes, manifestation, prevention and treatment of the most common diseases
Classification of medical diseases
Basic knowledge of microbes
Normal human microbiota
Modes of infection and factors contributing to infectious disease
Infectious diseases caused by the most common human microbes
The body's defence system

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student
-recognizes the main concepts of disease and can name the causes of diseases.
-understands the diagnosis, causes, manifestations, prevention and treatment of the most common diseases.
-understands the mechanism of infectious diseases and the body's defense system, having studied microbes, the normal human microbiota, the modes of transmission of infectious diseases and the microbes that cause infectious diseases.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student
-uses key concepts of disease and describes the causes of diseases.
-can describe the diagnosis, causes, manifestations, prevention and treatment of the most common diseases.
-recognizes the classification system of diseases.
-can describe the mechanism of pathogenesis and the body's defenses against infectious diseases and, having become familiar with microbes, the normal human microbiota, the modes of transmission of infectious diseases and the microbes that cause infectious diseases.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student
-explains the key concepts of pathology and analyses the causes of diseases.
-identify the causes, manifestation, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the most common diseases.
-recognizes the classification system of diseases.
-can describe, with reasoning, the mechanism and causes of infectious diseases and the body's defense system, after a comprehensive introduction to microbes, the normal human microbiota, the modes of transmission of infectious diseases and the microbes that cause infectious diseases.