Program Overview

University Program: Medical Biochemistry

Introduction

The Medicinal Biochemistry program is an integrated undergraduate and graduate university program offered by the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb. The program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in medical biochemistry, preparing them for careers in research, healthcare, and industry.

Program Details

Type of Study

• Type of study: Integrated undergraduate and graduate universities
• Method of performance: Regular
• Semester duration: 10

Curriculum

The program consists of 10 semesters, with a range of compulsory and elective courses. The curriculum includes:

• Semester 1:
  • Physics
  • Mathematics
  • Awesome chemistry with stoichiometry
  • Stana's biology with genetics
  • Physical and health culture
  • Introduction to the study of medical biochemistry
• Semester 2:
  • Analytical chemistry
  • Cytology and histology
  • Physical chemistry
  • Basics of anatomy
  • Physical and health culture
• Semester 3:
  • Biological chemistry
  • Physiology
  • Microbiology with parasitology
  • Organic chemistry
  • Physical and health culture
• Semester 4:
  • Bioethics
  • Biochemistry
  • Biostatistics
  • Pharmaceutical chemistry
  • Pathophysiology with pathology
  • Physical and health culture
• Semester 5:
  • Physical biochemistry
  • Hematology 1
  • Molecular biology with genetic engineering
  • What a biochemistry clinic
• Semester 6:
  • Analytical biochemistry
  • Biochemistry of medicines
  • Hematology 2
  • Immunology
  • Clinic of Biochemistry of Organs and Organ Systems 1
  • String practice 1
• Semester 7:
  • Pharmacology
  • Human and population genetics
  • Immunochemistry
  • Clinic of Biochemistry of Organs and Organ Systems 2
  • Coagulation
  • Molecular diagnostics
• Semester 8:
  • Biochemistry of nutrition
  • Laboratory informatics
  • Selected chapters of internal medicine
  • Special area of the biochemistry clinic
  • String practice 2
  • Toxicology
• Semester 9:
  • Analytical techniques in therapeutic drug monitoring
  • Graduation thesis
  • Evaluation of instruments, procedures and reagents
  • Emergency laboratory diagnostics
  • Integrated course of laboratory diagnostics - assessment of findings
  • Organization and management of the medical-biochemical laboratory
  • Sociology and health
  • Health legislation in laboratory medicine
• Semester 10:
  • Vocational training

Elective Courses

The program offers a range of elective courses, including:

• Biological membranes and stanin signaling
• Physico-chemical methods in biomedicine
• Selected methods of instrumental analysis
• Free radicals and antioxidants in health and disease
• Diagnostics and therapy of viral infections
• Climate change and health
• Metalloproteins
• Microbiome and health
• NMR spectroscopy
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Biopharmaceuticals
• Drugs, doping and addiction
• Modern biochemical techniques
• Cultivation of cells and cell lines
• Experimental ecotoxicology
• Complex genetics
• Laboratory diagnostics with the patient
• Laboratory endocrinology
• Basics of epidemiology with microbiological diagnostics
• Translational medicine - from the laboratory to the patient's bedside

Legend

• P - Lectures
• V - Exercises
• S - Seminar (Seminar)