Medical Laboratory Sciences program (MLS)
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| Course No رقم المساق | Course Name اسم المساق | Credit hours الساعات المعتمدة | Course Description وصف المساق |
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| 4001 | Arabic Language | 3 | This course covers a various number of linguistic issues in Arabic language. It aims to provide the student with a high level of skills and practices that would contribute to promote his language abilities either spoken or written. |
| 4002 | Islamic Culture | 3 | This course is designed to emphasize a group of principles and thoughts that affect human attitudes to life from an Islamic point of view. It stresses the direct relationship between man and Allah, and aims at improving this life by liberating the human m |
| 4320 | Modern History of Palestine | 3 | This course aims to introduce the student to the history of Palestine and the events it was subjected to since the second half of the nineteenth century until the end of the British Mandate over Palestine, including the late Ottoman era, then the First World War, and what happened to the events, when the British Mandate was imposed on Palestine, and Britain’s continuous attempts to find a homeland An alternative for the Jews in Palestine and the subsequent popular resistance to these attempts. |
| 8200 | Effective English Language Use | 3 | This course is designed to acquaint students with the process of writing, and the mechanisms of proofreading and revision so that the focus is on the mechanics of writing and development, such as cause and effect and comparison and classification and deal |
| 8239 | Skills for Life | 2 | he transition from high school to university can be a challenge for many students. Learning expectations are different. The student must play a more effective role in the learning process and assume greater responsibility, and he must adapt to the new learning culture very quickly. This course is designed to assist the student in the transition process more easily and to increase and develop important life skills related to the student's personal behaviors, so that he is better prepared for his academic and professional career. This course focuses on self-awareness, personal growth, and building positive relationships with others. Through these skills, along with the desire and dedication to learn, and the desire to help others, a student can be successful at the university, able to make significant contributions to his family, employers, societies and the world at large |
| 8991 | Computer Skills | 3 | This is an introductory course to computing and programming. It covers a wide variety of topics, including an introduction to computing, computer types and components, computer networks and the Internet, security and privacy, and computers for medical applications. It also covers programming principles, with a focus on critical thinking and problem-solving techniques. Topics covered in the lab include Moodle, MS Office, code.org, and scratch framework for creating medical presentations. |
| 8992 | Computer Skills LAB | 1 | This course is a broad introduction to the use of computers as tools for creativity, communications and organizing information. The course also provides fundamental basic knowledge in dealing with Microsoft office, internet browsing and visual basic. This course also provides an overview of the biostatistics programs including SPSS. |
| 8996 | English A2 | 0 | This course is designed to help minor university students with the beginner A1 and A2 levels improve their English Language proficiency in the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) to reach the pre-intermediate level (B1) as benchmarked by the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). It places the students and their needs at the center of the learning process by ensuring that they encounter the most relevant and useful language at the right point in their learning. The English A2 course is rich in practical activities as it provides students with a wide variety of listening, speaking, and writing tasks that motivate them, address their language needs, develop their skills, and help them to become confident users of the English language. It also integrates students with using technology to serve their educational purposes, by means of Google Classroom and Cambridge One Learning Management System to watch purposeful educational videos and carry out online tasks and homework to increase their exposure to the language. |
| 8997 | English B1 | 3 | This course is a continuation to course English A2. It is designed to help minor university students with the beginner A2 level improve their English Language proficiency in the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) to reach the pre-intermediate level (B1) as benchmarked by the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). It places the students and their needs at the center of the learning process by ensuring that they encounter the most relevant and useful language at the right point in their learning. The English B1 course is rich in practical activities as it provides students with a wide variety of listening, speaking, and writing tasks that motivate them, address their language needs, develop their skills, and help them become confident users of the English language. It also integrates students with using technology to serve their educational purposes, by means of Google classroom and Cambridge One Learning Management System to watch purposeful educational videos and carry out online tasks and homework to increase their exposure to the language. |
| 8998 | English B2 | 3 | This course aims to help minor university students with their general English by improving their Language proficiency from upper intermediate (B2) to advanced (C1) in the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). The textbook, Empower B2, is based on a combination of content from "Cambridge University Press" and a validated assessment from "Cambridge Assessment English" to enable students to make consistent and measurable progress with reference to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The course is fundamentally learner-centered, as it has clear orientation and goals that meet the students' needs. It seeks to sustain students' motivation through interactive visuals by personalizing their language practice experience and engaging them into interesting content with a variety of tasks. |
| 8999 | Entrepreneurship | 2 | Its course is designed to help students consider becoming job innovators rather than just job seekers. It is an introduction to the practice of entrepreneurship and an opportunity for participants to consider their preparation for an entrepreneurial career and more advanced training in entrepreneurship. It covers the nature of entrepreneurship, different types of career opportunities, identifying local entrepreneurs, assessing entrepreneurial trends and identifying potential challenges and risks that entrepreneurs may face. |
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| Course No رقم المساق | Course Name اسم المساق | Credit hours الساعات المعتمدة | Course Description وصف المساق |
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| 4308 | Hebrew Language | 3 | Designed to study the basic Hebrew language skills. Students will learn listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Hebrew. The relation between Hebrew and other languages will also be high lighted. |
| 4321 | Development in the Arabic World | 3 | This course covers the following topics: the economy, social status and civil in the Arab world, the analysis of the situation of the Arab at the international level, the principles of development, the characteristics of Arab integration, the fundamental |
| 4322 | Contemporary Problems | 3 | This course discusses the fundamental problems humanity face. These problems affect people as individuals or groups in terms of the social economic, political or health aspects, and which, in turn, affect their happiness. |
| 4323 | French Language | 3 | Designed to study the language and culture of French speakers. Students will develop rudimentary listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in French, and will study cultural, geographical, and historical aspects of French and other French – speaking |
| 4325 | Spanish Language | 3 | Designed to study the language and culture of Spanish speakers. Students will develop rudimentary listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Spanish, and will study cultural, geographical, and historical aspects of Spanish and other Spanish – spea |
| 4326 | German Language | 3 | Designed to study the language and culture of German speakers, Students will develop rudimentary listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in German, and will study cultural, geographical, and historical aspects of German and other German – speaking |
| 4622 | Democracy, Human Rights, & Human International Law | 3 | The course stresses the notion of democracy, its history with new applied samples in view of studying the Palestinian situation. It also emphasizes the notion of human rights and its history, in addition to the tools and mechanisms adapted to protect thes |
| 4626 | The History of Science in Arab & Islam | 3 | This course examines the origins of the various sciences in history, starting with the achievements of the ancient Egyptians, passing through the achievements of the people of Mesopotamia, the Phoenicians, and the Canaanites, then the Greeks, Romans, and other nations and peoples. It deals with the lives of a number of Arab and Muslim scholars, their writings, discoveries and scientific achievements, and other scholars who appeared before Islam from different peoples. The course ends by talking about the cultural influences of Arabs and Muslims on other peoples, especially European ones. |
| 5385 | Advanced English Language | 3 | This course aims to prepare students for academic study by improving their level in the field of reading speed and accuracy. Pieces containing long and complex sentences are also selected to enable students to enrich their vocabulary by knowing the meaning of the word from the context. Students are also trained to notice the apparent and implied meaning of the context. This also trains students to separate information from the text and points of view in it. |
| 5440 | Home Garden | 3 | This course includes the definition of home garden and its benefits, problems and objectives, design and choice of location in addition to its role in achieving food security for developing communities and building a strong family agricultural economy. |
| 5456 | Turkish Language | 3 | Study the basics and principles of the Turkish language, where the four language skills include reading, writing, speaking, and listening. To the level in which he is able to write correct sentences, express himself in simple words, and understand reading and listening at the level of a paragraph about things related to and surrounding him. |
| 5975 | Integrity Transparency and anti-corruption | 3 | The course deals with defining the concepts of integrity, transparency, and corruption, locally and globally, while showing the forms of corruption practice within the Palestinian society and its negative effects, as well as the causes that lead to it, whether political, social, economic, partisan, historical, or external and other factors. In addition to identifying ways to confront it in order to reach good governance, whether at the level of official governmental or private institutions. |
| 8011 | Palestinian prisoners movement | 3 | This course deals with the captive movement from multiple aspects, the most important of which is the cultural aspect. The development of the captive movement was divided into four stages, the first being the stage of cultural repression (1967-1972), the stage of struggle and rebellion (1972-1980), the stage of prosperity (1980-1991), and the stage of fluctuation 1992. The process of struggle development, the state of ups and downs in the struggle of the captive movement, and there is a stage of the criterion of resistance activity for the Palestinian people, the degree of revolutionary violence against the occupier and its reflection on prisons, and there is a stage of detention periods according to the cases of central prisons and the events and cases of progress and decline |
| 8989 | Physical education | 3 |
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| Course No رقم المساق | Course Name اسم المساق | Credit hours الساعات المعتمدة | Course Description وصف المساق |
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| 8162 | Medical Terminology | 1 | The study of medical terminology introduces students to the language of medicine. Students will gain an understanding of basic elements, rules of building and analyzing medical words, and medical terms associated with the body as a whole. Utilizing a systems-approach, the student will define, interpret, and pronounce medical terms relating to structure and function, pathology, diagnosis, clinical procedures, oncology, and pharmacology. In addition to medical terms, common abbreviations applicable to each system will be interpreted. |
| 8183 | Biostatistics | 3 | This course will cover the sampling and analysis of various types of data from statistical perspective. It is intended to give students in science and medicine, who have no basic preparation in statistics, a deeper and richer understanding of how statistical methods are related to the science and how facility with statistics can help to answer many research questions. |
| 8546 | Medical ethics | 1 | This course will introduce students to the moral theories/ethical frameworks used in biomedical ethics as well as various topics related to the ethical implications of biotechnology and health care. The methodology employed in this course will teach students how to use critical thinking skills and objective decision-making to work through various ethical dilemmas.. It will provide students with theoretical knowledge and practical examples in order to prepare them to engage in ethical deliberation and scholarly research related to biomedical ethics. |
| 8595 | General Chemistry | 3 | This course aims to introduce the student to the basic concepts in the field of chemistry and develop basic skills and concepts of chemical processes. The course covers topics that include: basic chemical principles with an emphasis on atomic structure, molecule concepts, stereochemistry, chemical reactions in aqueous solutions, and acid-base balance. It is also discussing thermochemistry and some important definitions in thermodynamics and kinetics of chemical reactions. |
| 8596 | Laboratory of General Chemistry | 1 | Three hours of laboratory per week. Basic laboratory techniques will be emphasized through experiments dealing with: the density of solids and liquids, atomic ratios and mass combining ratios, atomic structure and the periodic table, calorimetry, chemical reactivity, geometric structure of molecules |
| 8830 | First Aid | 2 | The course shows how to properly respond to emergency situations. It covers the following topics: cardiac and respiratory emergencies, bleeding and injuries to soft tissue, muscle, bone, joints, head, neck and spine. Excessive sensitivity to stings, situations of abuse, road accidents, drowning and burns, and patient safety principles. |
| 8831 | Methods of Scientific Research in Health Sciences | 2 | Students learn the basic research knowledge and skills necessary to conduct evidence-based quantitative and qualitative scientific research within health care fields. Topics that will be covered include an introduction to the importance of scientific research, its requirements and ethics in the health field, developing research questions, sampling methods, research designs, data collection, literature review and documentation methods, the typical format of research and research proposals, methods for criticizing and analyzing scientific research, and designing presentations. Using MS PowerPoint |
| 8945 | Biology for health professions | 3 | This course will provide an insight into various disciplines i.e. give a taster of more advanced material covered in the course. It will provide a basic understanding of practical material relevant to biological sciences and enable the student to develop personal skills in interpreting basic scientific research and communicating scientific ideas and information in a clear, accurate and well organised manner. |
| 8946 | Biology for health professions/Lab | 1 | This laboratory will introduce students to biodivesity of life through whole samples, field trips to nearby forests and teach them how to use microscopes to view tissues and cells. Students will also learn how to measure energy production by plants and how to record and analyse basic data. |
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| Course No رقم المساق | Course Name اسم المساق | Credit hours الساعات المعتمدة | Course Description وصف المساق |
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| 4145 | Biochemistry | 3 | This course is designed to provide an understanding of the structure of the chemical components of living matter. The course will cover the four major classes of biological molecules: proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids. Emphasis will be on the chemical properties and three-dimensional structure of these molecules in relationship to their biological function. Principles of bioenergetics, the mechanisms of enzyme action, enzyme kinetics, and the control mechanisms which regulate enzymatic reactions will be discussed |
| 5392 | Analytical Chemistry | 3 | Students learn about sample classification, errors, and statistical analysis applied in analytical chemistry. And the study of specific analytical chemical methods and concepts, such as: specific gravity (gravimetric), complexometric, volumetric, titration and balancing of acids and bases, oxidation and reduction, and sedimentation equations. |
| 5955 | Pharmacology and Toxicology | 3 | After studying this course, the student develops his knowledge of theoretical concepts about pharmacology, such as dynamics and kinetics, medications and concepts of drug therapy. This course covers specific information about the medications used in treating diseases of the cardiac, respiratory, circulatory, and central and peripheral nervous systems, and classifications of antibiotics and examples of them. Laboratory evaluation of medications is emphasized |
| 8155 | Anatomy & Organ Physiology (1) | 3 | Students learn about the concept of internal balance and how the body’s systems maintain this balance, and the anatomical studies and its vocabulary (body regions, landmarks, levels, axes, and body gaps). It also covers the anatomy and functions of the following systems: the integumentary system, bone tissue, the axial and appendicular skeleton, joints, and the nervous system Including nervous tissue, the spinal cord, spinal nerves, the brain and cerebral nerves, the somatic and involuntary nervous systems, in addition to the main senses such as hearing and sight. |
| 8156 | Anatomy & Organ Physiology Practical | 1 | |
| 8157 | Anatomy & Organ Physiology (2) | 3 | The course covers the function of muscle tissue. In addition to the anatomy and functions of other body systems, such as the circulatory system, respiratory system, digestive system, reproductive system, and urinary system. |
| 8610 | Organic Chemistry | 3 | This course provides a survey of inorganic and physical chemistry and an introduction to organic chemistry for non-science and allied health majors. Topics studied in this course include atomic structure, covalent and ionic bonding, chemical reactions, chemical calculations, acid, base and solution chemistry, radiochemistry and chemistry of hydrocarbons. The medical and environmental applications of topics covered in lecture are highlighted. |
| 19450 | Basic Microbiology | 3 | By studying this course, students learn the historical development of microbiology, the classification of microorganisms and the characteristics of each of them in terms of size, location, and methods of transport. The phenotypic and functional characteristics of bacteria, their structure, nutritional requirements, growth, methods of controlling them, preventing their spread, methods of sterilization and disinfection, and their resistance to drugs and antibiotics will be studied. The course also discusses examples of the most important bacteria that cause diseases in humans, such as staphylococcus bacteria, streptococcus bacteria, intestinal bacteria, neisseria, tuberculosis bacteria, bacteria that cause diphtheria, spore-forming bacteria (Clostridium), bacteria that cause stomach and intestinal ulcers, bacteria that cause syphilis, and cholera bacteria. |
| 19451 | Basic Microbiology Lab | 1 | The practical part of the Basics of Microbiology course explains safety methods in the microbiology laboratory, methods of sterilization and disinfection, preparing various media for bacterial growth, collecting and disposing of medical samples, preparing slides and methods for staining various bacteria, methods for cultivating and isolating bacteria from medical samples, methods for examining the resistance and sensitivity of bacteria to antibiotics. |
| 19452 | Diagnostic Microbiology | 3 | By studying this course, students focus on diagnosing infectious diseases through symptoms and characteristics of microbial causes. It deals with traditional methods of collecting medical samples and how to deal with them. The course focuses on the most important characteristics of bacteria that cause disease, and methods of isolating and identifying them. Methods of treatment and prevention of various diseases are also learned. |
| 19453 | Diagnostic Microbiology Lab | 1 | In the practical part, the student is trained to isolate bacteria and identify them through various tests. The sensitivity of bacteria to antibiotics and developments in bacterial diagnostics is also examined. Students are also trained to study clinical cases |
| 19454 | Medical Parasitology | 3 | By studying this course, students can discuss the different types of infectious parasites, such as: protozoa, helminths, and arthropods, and study each parasite in detail in terms of its life cycle, its different forms, and the diseases it causes. The course also examines the methods used to diagnose and identify parasites, the different types of samples collected from patients, methods of transmission of parasites, and methods to prevent their spread and prevent them. |
| 19455 | Molecular biology | 3 | This course covers various genetic techniques such as: gene cloning, preparing genetic libraries from DNA and cDNA, determining and analyzing the base sequence of DNA, detecting acidic sequences using PCR and hybridization, gene expression, and also applications in analyzing mutations and diseases. Forensic diagnosis, future possibilities, determinants, and ethics of genetic technologies. |
| 19456 | Coagulation of blood | 3 | By studying this course, students learn about the origin and differentiation of platelets. The course covers diseases associated with structural and functional abnormalities of platelets. As well as the blood clotting process, it examines clotting factors, diseases resulting from them, and laboratory methods used to qualitatively and quantitatively detect clotting elements and diseases resulting from platelet deficiency. |
| 19457 | Instrumental Analysis | 2 | By studying this course, students learn the foundations of the work of analytical machines, and their application in identifying materials in the medical laboratory. These include: optical spectroscopy, optical luminescence, electrical convection, differential isolation chromatography, and radioactivity. |
| 19458 | Clinical Hematology 1 | 3 | By studying this course, students learn about the origin of blood cells, their differentiation, functions, and abnormal cells. The course also covers types of anemia: nutritional, fracturing, and hereditary anemia. The practical part of the course deals with how to draw blood samples and laboratory detection of these types of diseases. |
| 19459 | Clinical Hematology 2 | 2 | This course complements Clinical Hematology 1 and covers white blood cell problems such as: leukemia and lymphoma, and other diseases such as: chronic myeloproliferative disorders, multiple myeloma, and fat storage diseases, by focusing on clinical symptoms and laboratory results. |
| 19460 | Diagnostic Genetics | 3 | The course discusses how to transcribe, translate, and regulate gene expression. This course provides students with up-to-date information in various genetic applications for human health. It also includes how diseases are inherited in families, mutations, their causes and corrections, genetic mapping of diseases on specific chromosomes, analysis of the molecular mechanism by which genes cause diseases, their diagnosis and treatment, and genetic counseling, through which we obtain information that informs the risk factors and exacerbation of the disease and the necessary treatments for patients and their families. |
| 19461 | Blood Bank | 3 | By studying this course, students learn the foundations of blood immunity, blood groups, selecting blood donors, collecting blood, treating it, storing it, and preparing some of its components. The course covers the methods used in blood classification, such as the Rh factor, detecting and identifying antibodies, examining antiglobin, and identifying blood compatibility. |
| 19462 | Histology | 4 | This course includes a description of the structure of the body's main tissues, their locations, their functional adaptation, and knowledge of the histological structure of the various organs and systems of the body. The course also covers changes to tissues in pathological conditions. On the practical side, the course covers topics of fine and microscopic techniques, in addition to studying ready-made slides of various body tissues, and basic laboratory procedures required in the histology laboratory, such as preparing tissues, sectioning them, staining them with immunohistochemistry, and examining them. |
| 19463 | Virology and Mycology | 3 | The course discusses the general characteristics of viruses, especially those that cause diseases in humans, their classification, reproduction, types, interaction with the host, methods of their spread and transmission, and methods of preventing and controlling them. The course also discusses examples of viruses that cause diseases in humans, such as herpes viruses, influenza, measles, German measles, mumps, polio, AIDS, and hepatitis. In the second part of this course, the different types of molds and yeasts are discussed, and it focuses on the fungi that cause the disease, and identifying skin and bodily fungal diseases, theoretically and laboratory-wise, through staining, cultivation, and microscopic examination of medical samples. It also includes examining the effect of antifungals on them. |
| 19464 | Immunology and Serology | 3 | This course is complementary to the immunology and serology course. Students discuss the principles of serological testing and their applications in the diagnosis of certain infectious and noninfectious diseases using a variety of immunological methods. |
| 19465 | Diagnostic Immunology and Serology | 2 | This course discusses the basic principles of immunology, which include the immune system, its components, cells, and natural functions in protecting the body from foreign bodies such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, and their secretions. It also discusses the importance of the immune system in tissue and organ transplantation, and immune diseases such as hypersensitivity, autoimmune diseases, and diseases resulting from immunodeficiency. |
| 19466 | Cell Biology | 3 | This course includes the study of cellular theory and an overview of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. A detailed study of the cell components, including cellular organelles, from a structural and functional perspective. It also includes the study of the cytoskeleton, cell adhesion, and a brief overview of cell aging and cancer cells. |
| 19467 | Clinical Chemistry | 4 | This course includes a comprehensive study of all the basic components: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, the balance of solutions in the blood, enzymes, and hormones, from a clinical perspective in health and disease. This course also includes a study of how pathological samples are taken, comparing them to normal results, and a brief study of toxicities and their causes. A brief study on medical devices, how to test samples and how to use these devices. |
| 19468 | Clinical Chemistry Lab | 1 | The practical course covers most of the concepts and topics presented in the theoretical part of the course |
| 19469 | Body Fluids | 3 | By studying this course, students learn the characteristics and characteristics of healthy and unhealthy body fluids. Fluids include: urine, cerebrospinal fluid, semen, joint fluid, and amniotic/fetal fluid, and the student can examine these fluids in specialized laboratories |
| 19470 | Endocrinology | 3 | By studying this course, students can learn about the biological characteristics and characteristics of hormones, and their role in regulating the functions of various body organs. It covers the endocrine glands, the hypothalamic axis - the pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, and the rest of the endocrine glands in the body, in addition to laboratory examination of hormones in the blood and interpretation of the results. |
| 19471 | Management and Quality in Medical Laboratory Technology | 2 | By studying this course, students study the administrative tasks of the laboratory and how to manage the medical laboratory efficiently and effectively. The course covers the following topics: the administrative role of the medical laboratory director and the chief laboratory officer. It also studies: planning, organization, decision-making, problem solving, staff operation, laboratory design, procurement, assimilating modern equipment and methods in management, quality control, and economic feasibility in work Laboratories. This is in order to teach students how to operate laboratories well and efficiently. |
| 19472 | Research project | 1 | During this course, each group of five students conducts a complete scientific research on a topic related to medical laboratories, using what was studied in the scientific research methods course, with the help of a supervisor from the faculty, using all the sources available at the university. After completing it, the students write a complete scientific report so that the results are discussed and presented to the faculty and attendees. |
| 19473 | Field Training | 6 | The student trains for the equivalent of 16 working hours per week throughout the second semester (14 weeks) of the fourth year in the medical laboratories of at least four different hospitals and laboratories of medical centers in Palestine. So, each credit hour is equivalent to 70 hours of time, as the student trains 6 hours a day (30 hours of work per week), for a total of 420 training hours. It includes practical training on the following topics: • Collecting and preparing clinical samples for analysis and applying these analyses. • Comment on and evaluate the results. • Verify the effectiveness of the equipment and the problems faced by the analysis machines. • Monitoring qualitative control procedures and protocols, and the discrepancy between normal and abnormal laboratory results. • Linking the results of laboratory tests with common diseases and analyzing the difference between them. |
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| Course No رقم المساق | Course Name اسم المساق | Credit hours الساعات المعتمدة | Course Description وصف المساق |
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| 19474 | Tissue Culture | 3 | This course includes an introduction to tissue culture, the study of cell culture under special laboratory conditions, growth supplies, components of various growth media, and the factors affecting them. This course also addresses the applications of tissue culture and its benefits |
| 19475 | Applied Diagnostic Microbiology | 3 | It links the microbes that cause diseases in humans and body systems such as the digestive and respiratory systems, skin, blood, nervous system, and others, distinguishes them through clinical symptoms, and proposes laboratory diagnostic methods for all previous diseases and appropriate medications to treat them. Students can also study disease cases from a theoretical and practical perspective by making field visits to hospitals and health care centers in order to diagnose diseases and determine ways to identify microbes through laboratory tests. In addition to visiting research centers and hospitals that contain advanced technologies and devices for identifying microbes and diagnosing diseases. This course includes the use of microorganisms in industry, the process of producing antibiotics, vitamins, organic acids, enzymes, and the role of microorganisms in waste treatment, water treatment and protection. |
| 19476 | Basic Pathology | 3 | Through the study of this course, students describe, recognize and differentiate basic disease processes and dysfunction. It covers the following topics: cell injury and host responses, acute and chronic inflammation, tissue healing, benign and malignant cancers, and their nomenclature. |
| 19477 | Bioinformatics | 3 | This course aims to give the student the basics of databases and programs used in analyzing biological information related to nucleic acids (DNA, RNA, proteins, etc.) in relation to microbes, the diseases they cause, and methods of diagnosis and treatment. Developing the student’s computer and information technology skills in extracting, analyzing and representing biological data. |
| 19478 | Food Microbiology | 3 | In this course, food contamination and spoilage, food-borne diseases, microbial food poisoning, food preservation, and laboratory diagnosis of food-borne diseases and food contamination are studied. |
| 19479 | Diagnostic Molecular biology | 3 | This course aims to focus on the principles and application of DNA and RNA isolation, amplification, hybridization, and analysis. This course covers applications in microbiology, fetal diagnosis, cancer treatment, organ transplantation, paternity testing, blood clotting exposure testing, and forensic medicine. |
| 19480 | Public health and epidemiology | 3 | This course focuses on the principles of designing, interpreting, and analyzing epidemiological studies related to public health. It addresses the foundations of the occurrence of disease, the factors associated with that, the causal relationship and the connection between variables, as well as studying how to evaluate the defect in the research process within the framework of public health and ways to avoid this defect. It explains the ethical considerations in conducting and publishing the results of epidemiological studies. Finally, the course examines the impact of implementing public health policies on the spread of epidemics and improving community safety. |
| 19481 | Embryology | 3 | This course includes sexual division, sexual organs in males and females, the fertilization process, zygote division, vital processes during zygote division, embryonic cell specialization and formation of germ layers, formation of the main tissues in the human embryo, formation of organs and systems in the human body. It also includes the most important applications found in Embryology |
| 19482 | Compatibility of lab results with diseases | 3 | This course focuses on studying many medical cases that suffer from common diseases, whether infectious or non-communicable, and linking them to many laboratory tests to ensure that there are no conflicts or inconsistencies in the laboratory results and their logic before announcing them to the patient. This is done by discussing the laboratory results with the students. To identify known interactions between tests, as an essential part of ensuring the quality of results after analysis. |