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Getting started with team based learning at the Faculty of Medicine Comenius University in Bratislava

The education and training of medical doctors and other health professionals are undergoing fundamental transformation in a worldwide context. The traditional teaching models are currently being substituted or complemented by up-to date study models. They open more space to innovative pedagogic strategies that facilitate active learning and student-centred teaching approaches.
Team-based learning (TBL) is an innovative teaching/learning strategy that is based on students’ learning in small teams. It is a relatively new approach in medical education, but the evidence for its academic effectiveness in this field is growing.
Authors of the booklet provide an overview of the basic concepts of the TBL and share their experience with introducing TBL into physiology teaching of medical students.

Burns

Human skin seems to be simply external coverage of the human body. This statement is not completely true, as human skin, in addition to its protective function from the external environment, does have a range of other functions such as mechanical barrier, external immune barrier, participation in thermoregulation, excretion of sweat and sebum, sensory functions, and identification functions for the human being. Skin is the largest organ of the human body, as its average surface in adult persons is about 2 m² and its total mass is about 5 kg. An extensive burn injury affecting more than 20% of the body surface area, can lead to temporary, or permanent dysfunction or failure of the skin organ which could become a life threatening situation.

Topographic Anatomy of the Head

Topographic anatomy of regions of head and neck. Cranium. Temporomandibular joint. Muscles of mastication. Muscles of facial expression. Suprahyoid and infrahyoid muscles. Larynx. Salivary glands. Motor and sensory innervation of face and oral cavity. Lymphoid system of face and neck. Coniotomy, tracheotomy.

B lymphocytes and plasma cells

B lymphocytes are principal cells that mediate humoral adaptive immunity. After their maturation in the bone marrow, B cells enter peripheral lymphoid tissues, which are the sites of interaction with foreign antigens. Production of antibodies is initiated by the interaction of antigens with a small number of mature B cells specific for each antigen. An antigen binds to the membrane receptors on specific B cells and initiates a series of responses that lead to two principal changes: cell proliferation resulting in expansion of the clone, and differentiation to either plasma cells actively secreting antibodies or to memory cells.

Key words: B cells, subsets of B cells, memory B cells, plasma cells

Metabolism for the dentistry students

Metabolism, metabolic rate. Basal metabolic rate. Total daily energy expenditure. Factors that determine the metabolic rate. Measurement of the metabolic rate. Energy balance. Metabolism and physical activity. Oxygen debt. Efficiency of physical work. Metabolism of proteins, fats and carbohysrates. Fed state and fasting state metabolism.

Skeletopedia - Interactive 3D atlas of human bones

www.skeletopedia.sk

Creation of 3D atlas of human bones as an internet page with use of HTML5, Javascript, PHP and MySQL. To obtain polygonal models surface scanners and CT i-CAT scanner were used. Scanned models are true human bones, property of Department of Anatomy LF UK. Primary audience of the atlas are students of medicine. Atlas contains also interactive annotations, automatic search and visualisation of bone structures on 3D models, brief charts with key facts about bones and quizzes.

MEFANET

Network MEFANET (www.mefanet.cz)

This inter-university project had been prepared since 2006. The network of medical faculties (MEFANET) was finally established on 20th of June 2007 at the constitutive meeting of the Coordinating Council in Prague.

Medical faculties (MF) involved in the MEFANET project

• MF at the Masaryk University (Brno)
• MF at the Comenius University in Bratislava
• Jessenius MF in Martin at the Comenius University
• MF at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
• MF at the Palacky University in Olomouc
• 1. MF at the Charles University in Prague
• 2. MF at the Charles University in Prague
• 3. MF at the Charles University in Prague
• MF in Hradec Králové at the Charles University in Prague
• MF in Plzeň at the Charles University in Prague

Central gate of the MEFANET project

http://portal.mefanet.cz/index-en.php

Mefanet JOURNAL (Mefanet J)

The MEFANET Journal (Mefanet J) is intended to present within a single forum all of the developments in the field of medical informatics, medical education, e-learning and thereby promote the synergism among these disciplines. The journal is the premier vehicle for disseminating information about MEdical FAculties NETwork, which covers all Czech and Slovak medical faculties.

MEFANETin - journal

The first issue of MEFANETin - bulletin of the MEFANET project - was released in January 2008. You can download the latest issue and archive issues on this page or on page of Profect MEFANET.