Valid for: 2013/14
Decided by: Education Board A
Date of Decision: 2013-04-15
Main field: Technology.
Compulsory for: BME1
Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish
The course gives general knowledge on Swedish healthcare, professional conduct and patients, secrecy, etc. The aim of the first part of the course with lectures is to describe the use of biomedical engineering in clinical routine, applying in particular to those clinics of the hospital which are technoloy intense. A deeper understanding of the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, described at the lectures, is gained when the studnet is auscultating at the clinics. A number of procedures, for example involving the measurement of chemical or electrical quantities, are studied at the laboratory exercises. Teachers at the medical faculty are responsible for the course, and the course runs in its entirety at the hospital.
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
Topics like clinical physiology, clinical chemistry, neurophysiology, radiation physics, ophthalmology will be treated. Note that the course content can vary to some extent from year to year.
Grading scale: UG
Assessment: To pass the course the student is requried to attend to lectures and laboratory exercises, passed laboratory reports, passed report for a specific theme, as well as passed course in resuscitation.
The number of participants is limited to: No
The course overlaps following course/s: exta55
Course coordinator: Docent Pyotr Platonov, Pyotr.Platonov@med.lu.se