“Case study” technology in the course of “Medical Biology”

On April 3, students of the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology with a course in Medical Biology discussed a case study in parasitology: “Sporozoans. Infusorias. Methods of diagnostics of protozoa”.

Associate Professor Biesiedina A.A. conducted a class on “Medical Biology”, where she used case technology as an educational method to engage students’ communication and creative abilities, teach them to acquire knowledge and form competencies. During the analysis of situational problems, all students were given the opportunity to share their thoughts and conduct their own analysis, solving the problem in the issues of medical geography, morphological and functional features, developmental cycles, ways of infection, pathogenic effects, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of protozoa. Interpret the morphophysiological adaptations of protozoa to parasitism.

After hearing the students’ presentations, the teacher selected controversial opinions and offered to discuss them in more details.

The students learned to identify the final, intermediate, obligate, facultative and reservoir hosts of protozoa; explained the impact of modern global migration processes on the prevalence of protozoan infections in Ukraine; and identified methods for laboratory diagnosis of protozoa based on the location and life cycles of protozoa.