Molecular Cytology and Genetics Pavol Jozef Safárik University in Kosice

Overview

The graduate of the Molecular Cytology and Genetics programme from Pavol Jozef Safárik University in Kosice has the ability to demonstrate systematic understanding of the field in a broader biological context, to perform sophisticated skills and methods used in the field that meet international criteria, can actively apply all attributes of the scientific methodology, is competent to formulate scientific hypotheses and objectives and propose comprehensive solutions to the problems of the field studied, including their impacts on society, taking into account social, ethical and other criteria.

Key Facts

• The graduate of Molecular Cytology and Genetics programme from Pavol Jozef Safárik University in Kosice can assess and modify its own professional activity in a broader context, in relation to the long-term impact in the field and in terms of social, ethical and environmental criteria. The graduate knows relations with interdisciplinary fields of other biological sciences and has a deep knowledge of theories, sophisticated methods and procedures used to characterize biological processes at a level corresponding to international criteria. The graduate is capable of independent and critical thinking in search of answers to unanswered questions of performing research. The graduate can identify a complex problem, design and initiate a solution, formulate a scientific hypothesis, objectives, propose relevant means and methods of investigation applied in fundamental biomedical and biotechnological research, as well as laboratory diagnostics. The graduate can analyse data and interpret the results obtained based on synthetic procedures in the broader biological context. The graduate is capable to present and publish the results as scientific outputs in both, Slovak and English languages.
• The staffing of the programme is enhanced by the fact that three personalities of the staff matrix are contact persons or members of the top research team “Bioactive” and cooperate continuously also within the framework of scientific projects, which creates optimal space for scientific education at the 3rd level in accordance with the Dublin descriptors.
• The learning objectives in the study programme are achieved through measurable educational outputs - subjects of the study programme. The study rules of doctoral studies – PhD Study Regulations at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice define the basic framework for accumulation of credits in the learning and scientific part so as to guarantee the scientific character of the study. Both the learning and the scientific part of the study programme are designed in such a way that the graduate meets the educational goals in full.