E-learning preparatory courses
Medical Faculty of Masaryk University offers three E-learning preparatory courses for students who intend to study General Medicine, Dentistry or Physiotherapy in the English language.
The goals of the courses
- revising secondary school knowledge of Biology, Chemistry and Physics
- practising answering skills essential for success at the entrance examination
Description of the courses
each course consists of several units (see the course contents) in which theoretical backgrounds needed for understanding the given topic are specified
- each unit contains a short test providing feedback on partial knowledge, a discussion group serving as space for participants’ communication with both their colleagues and tutors
- individual courses are concluded with final tests similar to the actual entrance tests; its score informs about participants’ chance to pass the entrance exam
Each course costs 100 Euro and can be purchased online as separate items. Courses are available to purchase from November 1st 2019 to July 21st 2020 and open until September 15th 2020.
All participants will receive a password to the university online system after the payment.
Courses content
Biology
- What cells are? Chemical composition of cells
- Prokaryotic cell structure
- Eukaryotic cell structure. Membranes. Osmosis
- Structure and function of eukaryotic cell organelles
- Cell functions in unicellular and multicellular organisms
- Cell information – DNA
- Protein synthesis in cells
- Cellular responses to external stimuli and intercellular communication
- Cell division and DNA replication
- Heredity
- Diseases in human
- Viruses
- Breakthrough discoveries in medical biology
- Blood, haemostasis and immunity
- Bones and skeletal system
- Muscles
- The heart
- The circulation
- The respiratory system
- The gut
- Metabolism and temperature regulation
- The renal system
- Endocrinology
- Reproduction
- The nervous system
Chemistry
- Basic chemical terms
- Stoichiometric calculations
- Atomic structure
- Periodic table of elements
- Chemical bonds
- Nomenclature of inorganic compounds
- Solutions. Electrolytes. Acids and Bases
- Oxidation and reduction
- Brief synapsis of inorganic compounds
- Introduction to organic chemistry
- Alcohols. Thiols. Aldehydes
- Carboxylic acids and their derivatives
- Amines. Nitro compounds
- Heterocyclic compounds
- Sacharides
- Fatty acids and lipids
- Amino acids and proteins
- Enzymes
- Vitamins
- Nucleotides and nucleic acids
- Energy and metabolism
Physics
- Introduction
- Mechanics of solid bodies
- Harmonic motion, wave motion and sound
- Mechanics of fluids
- Principles of thermodynamics
- Theory of electricity
- Magnetism and Electromagnetism
- Optics
- Optics - Basic terms
- Optics - Optical imaging by lenses and mirrors
- Optics - The human eye and simple optical instruments
- Optics - Wave properties of light 8.5 Optics - An introduction to photometry
- Theory of relativity
- Principles of quantum, atomic and nuclear physics
- Principles of quantum, atomic and nuclear physics - Introduction
- Principles of quantum, atomic and nuclear physics - Properties of electron shells
- Principles of quantum, atomic and nuclear physics - The atomic nucleus
- Principles of quantum, atomic and nuclear physics - Detection and measurement of ionizing radiation