THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT THE UNIVERSITY O F BELGRADE - FACULTY OF PHARMACY

Milošević Andrijana, Ignjatović Svetlana, Krajnović Dušanka, Jocić DraganaUniversity of Belgrade - Faculty of Pharmacy

Introduction: Biochemistry is one of the first subjects that have become common for both the students of the Faculty of Pharmacy and those of the School of Medicine. Since the medicine has been continually developed, the need for the strengthening of the relation between these two professions arose. Pharmacy Department was established at the School of Medicine in 1939. and later in 1945 it became Faculty of Pharmacy where Medical Biochemistry department was established as early as 1961.

Objective: To explore the development of medical biochemistry graduate study programe and the related literature at the Belgrade University - Faculty of Pharmacy.

Methods: The relationship between the biochemical subjects (courses offered, corresponding literature for students) and the year of the study curriculum has been retrospectively analyzed. Number of students enrolled at the Faculty who are interested in biochemistry has been analyzes by the method of desk research analyzes.

Results:

Author Title (year of published)

Trpinac

Fundamentals of Inorganic Chemistry - Special Part (1946); Fundamentals of Inorganic Chemistry - General Part (1947); SelectedTopics in Biochemistry (1948); Chemical practicum for students of medicine and dentistry(1956).

Hojman, TrpinacClinical and Chemical Analysis (1948); Clinical Chemical Analysis (1949).

Topalović-Avramov Biochemistry for Pharmacy Students (1960).

Berkeš, Kapetanović, Rosić, Mašić

Practicum in Medical Biochemistry for Students of Pharmacy (1965).

Berkeš, Kapetanović, RosićBiochemical practicum for Pharmacy Students (1967).

Berkeš, KapetanovićMedical Biochemistry (1970); Medical Biochemistry Practicum (1970); Introduction to Enzymology for Students of Pharmacy (1972).

Majkić- Singh, Spasić

Medical Biochemistry Practicum (1974); Practicum in Medical Biochemistry (1980); Professional and Methodological Guidance for the Work and Organization in the field of Clinical and Biochemical Laboratory Diagnostics (1987).

Berkeš, Tomašević-Berkeš General and Medical Enzymology (1975).

KapetanovićThe overall Physical and Chemical Examination of Urine (1975).

Majkić- Singh

Introduction to Enzymology (1979); Application of the International System of Units (SI) in Medical Biochemistry (1980); Clinical Enzymology (1993); Medical Biochemistry (1994); Medical Biochemistry II (1995); Advancesin Laboratory Medicine (1997); Application in Medical Biochemistry Laboratory Medicine (2000); Medical Biochemistry I (2001); Central Laboratory and Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Clinical Center of Serbia since 1952. to 2002. (2002); Medical Biochemistry second edition(2006).

Petrović, Vidaković, Rajić Practicum in Hematology for Students of Pharmacy (1994); Hematology (1996).

Majkić- Singh, Spasić, Stojanov, Jelić-Ivanović, Spasojević-Kalimanovska

Medical Biochemistry: Principles and Methods(1995).

Majkić- Singh, ðurñević, KavarićDevelopment of Medical Biochemistry in Yugoslavia (1998).

Group of authors Medical Lexicon (1999).

Petrović, Dopsaj, Rajić, Milojević Laboratory Hematology (2002).

Spasić, Jelić-Ivanović, Spasojević-Kalimanovska

General Biochemistry (2002); Medical Biochemistry (2003).

Stojanov Endocrinology Laboratory (2004).

References:1.Majkić-Singh N, ðurñević J, Kavarić J. Razvoj medicinske biohemije u Jugoslaviji. Beograd: Društvo medicinskih biohemičara Jugoslavije; 1998. 27-80.2.60 godina Farmaceutskog fakulteta u Beogradu 1948-2005. Beograd: Farmaceutski fakultet u Beogradu; 2006. 35-53.3.Majkić-Singh N. Education in Medical Biochemistry in Serbia. The Journal Of The International Federation Of Clinical Chemistry And Laboratory Medicine . 2010; 21(2).

Figure 1: Number of students enrolled in the period 1999/00-2011/12

The results show that the number of enrolled students is constant (table 1) and it is a number that meets the needs of the local market. Items associated with biochemical topics (courses and teaching materials) gradually multiplied during the years as shown in Table 2. A special department has been introduced only for biochemistry, with a relatively large number of cases of biomedical content.

Table 1: Biochemical subjects in the curriculum d evelopment presented by ratio in the whole study pro gramme Undergraduate study progfram – Master of Pharmacy – M edical Biochemist

Table 2: Study materials for biochemical courses of t he undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum programme

ACKNOWLEDGMENTThis paper is presented in the framework of two projects that are being funded by the Serbian Ministry of Science and Technology Development (No 175036 and 41004)

Conclusion: The relatively constant number of students enrolled each year and an increase in the number of books in the field of biochemistry suggests that this scientific area is still at large potential for development.