Master degree program
Medicine (Clinician-Scientist)

Medicine (Clinician-Scientist)

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Medical Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

Upon completion of this program, it is expected that undergraduates will be able to:
1. Integrate knowledge, skills and abilities to solve research and practical tasks in an interdisciplinary aspect
2. Explain new knowledge and draw conclusions in the field of machine learning (learning with a teacher, learning with partial involvement of a teacher, learning without a teacher, learning with reinforcement) and neural networks.
3. Classify the concept of systemic medicine as a complex and comprehensive tool for analyzing the factors of the development of polygenic diseases.
4. Demonstrate competently to draw up conclusions, reports and other types of documentation necessary for the work);
5. To classify technologies, methods and techniques of theoretical and methodological approaches in the interpretation of medical information;
6. To evaluate the scientific and production processes related to the implementation of Personalized Medicine in clinical practice.
7. To conduct a comprehensive assessment of the role of various factors in the structure of diseases;
8. Evaluate, reflect and control the influence of the personal qualities of the physician-researcher and practice on the research results and professional activities;
9. Create a design and program of scientific research, analyze, describe, justify and present medical and statistical data with adequate methods and technologies, apply statistical methods in data processing;
10. Develop and implement independent application projects using modern tools and methods.
11. Build effective professional communication with colleagues;
12. Think critically, creatively and independently, clearly describe professional information in forms and styles suitable for the audiences and the purposes it serves;

Program passport

Speciality Name
Medicine (Clinician-Scientist)
Speciality Code
7M10104
Faculty
Faculty of Medicine and Health

disciplines

"Omics" Technologies in Medicine
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to form the ability to apply “Omix” technologies in medicine, to describe “proteomix”, - identify signs and draw conclusions on protein microarrays, etc. -find the relationship between omix technology and personalized medicine, Demonstrate knowledge of using omix technology - describe a group of monogenic and multifactorial diseases, -explain the results of omixic technologies in the context of clinical diagnosis.

Critical thinking
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: To acquaint with the basics, concept and methodology of the use of critical thinking in medicine and to form students' abilities: - discuss judgment systems for event analysis, - formulate conclusions, interpret the results - Own critical assessment methods for systematic reviews and meta-analyzes. -assess the level of evidence obtained from scientific publications in the field of translational medicine;

Environmental factors and their effects on public health
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to give theoretical and practical foundations on environmental factors and their impact on health, to form abilities; - understand and solve the problems of the influence of environmental factors on human health; - analyze the results of studies on the protection of public health, - assess the correlation between the qualitative composition, concentration of harmful substances and public health

Epidemiology
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is the formation of highly qualified specialists in the effective application of epidemiology methods in medicine, capable of: - correctly assess the impact of potential risk factors on the development of the disease, - be competent in matters of epidemiological examination, epidemiological diagnosis, environmental epidemiology. the content of anti-epidemic activity and the fundamentals of its organization. - explore the causes, condition, mechanisms of diseases

Evaluation of medical technologies
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to be able to develop basic skills for evaluating medical technologies to improve the quality of medical care. The discipline will provide the basic concepts of a system for evaluating the clinical and financial effectiveness of medical technologies, methods for promoting safe and effective patient care, and develop skills to systematize information about the effectiveness, safety and economic feasibility (acceptability) of diagnostic, treatment, prevention and rehabilitation methods.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: formation of a specialist’s research culture, research competence, as well as the theoretical, methodological and practical foundations for organizing research activities in the conditions of the development of science and the implementation of industrial and innovative development programs of the Republic of Kazakhstan; fundamentals of methodology and methods of scientific research, logic and structure of pedagogical research, scientific apparatus and research planning

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline to form the ability to apply practical skills in the organization and planning of scientific research. The discipline studies: forms and methods of planning, organization and design of scientific articles and dissertations; forms of summarizing the results of scientific research in presentations, speeches, projects, articles.

Pedagogy of Higher education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is the formation of the ability of pedagogical activity through the knowledge of higher education didactics, theories of upbringing and education management, analysis, and self-assessment of teaching activities. The course covers the educational activity design of specialists, Bologna process implementation, acquiring a lecturer, and curatorial skills by TLA-strategies.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Advanced course in Translational Medicine
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to build the ability to use the latest research technologies to personalize the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, as well; -assess clinical examples for the application of the principles of personalization of diagnosis and treatment - Understand the importance of using omix technology in the diagnosis of diseases. - to master practical skills in molecular biological and cellular technologies in the context of their application for clinical practice.

Basic concepts of programming in Python 3.0
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal - to build the ability to understand the functioning of information systems for managing information flows in medicine and healthcare, the application of computational techniques for data processing, to navigate the flows of biomedical information, - manage data for more efficient patient movement: admission - diagnosis - treatment - rehabilitation - monitoring. -structure data in programming to develop a disease management program

Biosafety and Biosecurity
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Objective: to develop the ability to apply methods of biological safety and biological protection of medical personnel and the population from infectious pathogens. The course develops the ability of undergraduates to: - apply the principles and approaches for disinfection and sterilization used in medical organizations; - analyze biological safety, get a holistic view of the discipline " Biological safety and biological protection»

Biostatistics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to identify patterns and dependencies in the studied phenomena; to use methods and tools of statistical analysis; to interpret the results and statistical data obtained as a result of processing, as well as tables, figures and graphs. The course examines modern trends in data analysis in medical research, the formation of skills for applying the principles of statistical analysis in professional activities.

Cellular techniques in clinical diagnostics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: - training of highly qualified specialists in the interpretation, application of the results of cellular and molecular-biological technologies for effective clinical practice. The course is aimed at theoretical knowledge and practical skills in molecular biological technologies, development of the field of medical proteomics: search for proteomic profiles for a personalized approach to treatment, assessment of methods for finding a specific “cancer proteome”

Data Science and artificial intelligence in medicine
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to solve physical and technical problems in the field of medical electronics and biomedical diagnostics using artificial intelligence programs and big data analysis. Predict various situations, analyze data and look for hidden patterns, Evaluate information and formulate a final assessment, be able to use GPT chats correctly, etc.

Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to form the ability of a systematic approach to new technologies for collecting, analyzing and interpreting scientific information from the perspective of the best scientific evidence with clinical experience and patient expectations. The course studies the modern areas of medical science from the point of view of the principles of evidence-based medicine, the formation of skills in applying the principles of evidence-based medicine in professional activities

Foundations of Bioethics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: - training highly qualified specialists who are able to apply and comply with the principles of biomedical ethics in professional activities. The course studies the basics of biomedical ethics; rules of communication in a medical environment. Patient rights; Moral problems of medical genetics; Ethics in psychiatry and psychotherapy, with AIDS, ethical and legal regulation of biomedical research in humans and animals.

Fundamentals of Precision and Translational medicine
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to build the ability to use the latest research technologies to personalize the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, interpret diagnostic test data for a personalized approach, determine the stages of the "translation" of fundamental biomedical and other knowledge into medical practice, master the basic knowledge of precision medicine, study and master the field of application of medical proteomics , genomics, evaluate methods for finding a specific "cancer proteome."

Introduction into R programming
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to develop the ability to use the programming language R in medicine, to master the basic skills of working with graphics, to classify and identify programming languages, to analyze the results of machine processing, to understand the functions of programming R for the purpose of possible application in predicting the course of diseases The course is aimed at introducing a programming language for statistical data processing and graphics.

Introduction into Systems Medicine as medicine of the future
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to build the ability to analyze and understand the system of qualitative principles of diagnosis and treatment, to represent systemic medicine as an integrated approach to human diseases. The course will introduce Systemic Medicine as an integrated approach to human diseases, allowing to take into account a wide variety of disease factors, including genetic predisposition, lifestyle, environmental factors, etc.

Legislation and regulatory acts in biomedical research
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form the ability to apply domestic and international legislation and legal acts in biomedical research. The course will form the undergraduates ' ability to: -understand the ethical principles of conducting biomedical research, - interpret legal acts in research, - determine the order of research with human participation. - use legal tools to protect their patients' rights.

Molecular biology techniques in Translational Medicine
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to train highly qualified specialists in the interpretation and application of the results of cellular and molecular-biological technologies for effective clinical practice. The course studies molecular biological and cellular technologies, in the context of applications for clinical diagnosis and treatment, in personalized medicine, the study of proteomics: the search for proteomic profiles that ensure the separation of patients into clinical groups, the search for a specific “cancer proteome”;

Organization of clinical and preclinical research
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to be able to give students an idea of the place of preclinical and clinical research in the overall plan of the research program. They will be able to master the techniques of project management, formulate goals, objectives and plans for preclinical and clinical research, areas of application, know the regulatory framework and documentation, types of clinical trials.

Systems Medicine
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to be able to form the ability to analyze and understand the system of qualitative principles of diagnosis and treatment. Upon completion of the course, undergraduates will be able to: present systemic medicine as an integral approach to human diseases, use the principles of systemic diagnosis, compare diagnostic technologies, devices and automated computer systems to select advantages and disadvantages of effective diagnosis

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2021-2024 years