Abstract:

Introduction:
The study of electromagnetic fields in the biosphere is now especially important in the connection with massive contribution of artificial sources of electromagnetic radiation. The aim of medical higher education is to provide students with specific professional competences in the informed use of electromagnetic fields in medical diagnostics and therapy with minimal risk to the healthcare professionals and patients. From an ethical point of view, it is important that information disseminated on the impact of high frequency electromagnetic fields on the human health has to be based on scientifically proven facts.
Basic information in this field should be provided to the students of medicine during their undergraduate university study in the subject medical biophysics at the Faculty of Medicine Comenius University in Bratislava.

Material and methods:
To obtain feedback information about medical student’s knowledge on the properties of electromagnetic waves the pedagogical investigation was realised in the 1st year of medical study. The 71 Slovak students and 47 English speaking students were asked to answer ten questions in the multiple choice test.

Results:
The main task of teaching of medical biophysics is to prepare students to understand the physical laws that are applied in medicine. In the current syllabus of medical biophysics at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University are included such topics as electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic spectrum including microwaves, low (LF) and high frequency (HF) electromagnetic waves, visible light, infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) light, reflection, refraction of the light, basic principles of their detection, optical properties of human vision, measurement and processing which are crucial for diagnostic and therapeutic methods in medicine. From this point of view for the teachers is important to obtain valid feedback information on effectiveness of teaching.

Conclusion:
In the teaching process of medical biophysics is involved a full complex of experimental tasks and their processing that deal with observing and registering of electromagnetic fields such as illuminance, visual acuity, refractometry, spectrophotometry, thermometry, infrared radiation detection by thermocamera and now prepared measurement to exposure to electromagnetic fields (PF5 Pocket Power Frequency Meter used to measure of LF electromagnetic fields exposure and HF-Analyzer Gigahertz, HF35C, was used to measure HF field exposure).

Acknowledgement :
Contribution was supported by GP KEGA MESRS of the SR № 023UK–4/2021.

References:
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Keywords:

Medical study, medical biophysics, electromagnetic fields.