The course “Introduction to Medicine and History of Medicine” is a first-year compulsory course of
the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Study of Medicine in English encompassing
24 hours of lectures and awarding 2 ECTS credits.
The course helps students gain insight into the laws of the gradual development of medicine as a
science and acquire basic professional terminology. The lectures cover:
- an introduction to medicine (medical terminology, the structure of the healthcare system
and formal medical higher education in the Republic of Croatia, the characteristics of a
good physician and medical student, etc.);
- an overview of the history of medicine from prehistoric times to the present;
- the most important chapters of the history of medicine and the Faculty of Medicine in
Rijeka