MEDOD2 is based on http://uib.no/emne/MEDOD1MEDOD1, and introduces the students to the medical and dentistry fields.

The students obtain knowledge regarding biomedicine and cell biology as basic academic fields within dentistry and medicine, as well as theoretical and practical knowledge regarding medical statistics and ethics.

Mandatory topics in this semester:

• Cells, second bloc
• Medical statistics
• Ethics

Upon completion of the course, the student:

Knowledge:

• demonstrates basic and detailed knowledge of biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, cell physiology and histology, and can describe examples of disease mechanisms.
• has thorough knowledge of how cellular processes of diet, physical exercise and lifestyles affect health and illness
• is able to account for probability theory, descriptive statistics, diagnostic tests, fundamental distribution, estimation and testing of hypotheses, regression, survival analysis and basic methods for analysing randomised clinical trials 
• is able to account for ethical dilemmas one might face as a student and as a professional, and central ethical issues within medicine and dentistry

Skills

• can solve problems within biomedicine and cell biology in connection with topics taught in the course
• can give a histological description of selected tissue sections using microscopy
• can describe observations numerically and graphically, perform statistical analysis, and understand basic principles and analyses for randomised clinical trials
• can identify and analyse ethical dilemmas and justify ethical decisions that pertains to patients and society

General competence

• can make use of biomedical knowledge to understand biochemical, cellular and physiological processes within illness and health.
• is able to critically assess use of statistics in medical literature.
• can cooperate with fellow students in theoretical group work and practical exercises. 

All calculators, model is subject to https://www.uib.no/student/92511/hjelpemidler-p%c3%a5-eksamen#kalkulatorerlimitations determined by UiB.

Simple, bilingual dictionary, that must be reviewable, meaning that one of the languages must be English, or a Scandinavian language.

Department of Biomedicine med-ibm-studiesaker@uib.no

Course coordinator: Knut Teigen, https://uib.no/persons/Knut.Teigen

Different teachers are responsible for each part of the course.