Qualification: Doctor-cyberneticist
Duration: 6 years (12 semesters)
ECTS: 360
Fields of study: Medical Cybernetics, Health Care, Diseases Diagnosis, Medical, Statistical and System Analysis
Languages of instruction: Russian, English (on request)

DESCRIPTION

The Specialist’s degree programme qualifies high-skill doctors and cyberneticists, who have profound knowledge in medicine and cybernetics, including information, communication, treatment, and prevention technologies. Programme graduates are engaged in creating and applying medical and cybernetic tools and devices for preventing, diagnosing and treating various diseases and maintaining public health.

Forms of in-class activity: lectures, laboratory classes, practical classes, review sessions, and individual work.

AIMS

treatment activity:
•    collecting and analysing medical and statistical health indicators in the population of different age and gender groups, which characterise their health status;
•    diagnosing diseases and pathological conditions in patients;
•    diagnosing medical emergencies;
•    creating immaculate living conditions for patients and favourable working conditions for medical staff in medical institutions;
•    generating motivation in the population, which is aimed at maintaining and improving their own health and health of those around them;
•    promoting health, hygienic and recreation education in the population aimed at preventing diseases and maintaining public health;

analysis activity:
•    conducting system analysis of research targets within medicine and health care;

information and technology activity:
•    analysing, establishing, introducing and operating medical information systems and communication technologies;

management activity:
•    organising and managing medical treatment in medical institutions and their structural units, defining job functions and responsibilities;
•    producing accounting and supporting documents in medical institutions and their structural units;
•    fulfilling major requirements of information security;

assessment and project activity:
•    conducting medical, social and economic studies;
•    assessing the quality of health care delivery, examining the epidemiologic situation;
•    managing and arranging activities for protecting and improving public health;
•    evaluating risks associated with newly introduced medical and cybernetic technologies;
•    producing and filing research and project documents;

research activity:
•    managing and conducting research on topic issues;
•    developing new methods, tools and technologies within medicine, cybernetics and health care;
•    producing and disseminating research results.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of the clinical residency programme the graduates should be able to:

•    provide first aid and apply protection techniques in emergency situations;
•    evaluate morpho-functional and physiological conditions and pathological processes in humans for fulfilling professional tasks;
•    use specialised equipment and medical tools while performing professional duties;
•    implement a set of activities aimed at maintaining and improving health, adopting healthy lifestyle, preventing emergence and (or) spread of diseases, their early diagnosis, identifying causes and conditions for their emergence and development, as well as reducing negative impact of environmental factors on human health;
•    undertake anti-epidemic activities, organise protection of the population in the centres of highly infectious diseases or in case of aggravating radiation situation, natural disasters and other emergency situations;
•    assess the results of laboratory, instrumental, pathological, anatomical and other studies and examinations for recognizing the condition or establishing presence or absence of a disease;
•    conduct comprehensive analysis while exploring biological and organizational systems;
•    create mathematical and heuristic models of physiological systems for studying the properties and performance of human body, for introducing these models in the computer-aided systems for monitoring and analysing the effects of drug and drug-free treatment, for identifying indicators according to the experimental and clinical data, and for detecting features of diagnosing and forecasting progression of diseases;
•    develop and introduce up-to-date information technologies in health care, apply mathematical methods and modern software for processing experimental, clinical and diagnostic data, and for modelling medical and biological processes;
•    design computer-aided systems for various purposes in health care;
•    follow main management procedures in public health care, i.e. in medical institution and their structural subdivisions;
•    organise and conduct research, including selecting goals, setting objectives, planning, choosing appropriate methods, collecting, processing and analysing data, disseminating results in line with the requirements of information security.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Graduates are employed in medical treatment and diagnosis institutions (hospitals, clinics, out-patient departments), in medical and biological research centres, laboratories and institutes engaged in operating medical equipment and conducting medical and biological experiments, and in local and regional commercial health care establishments.