The course Physical Education and Health is a compulsory course at the first and the second year of the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Study of Medicine in English. The course comprises 60 hours of practicals (1.5 ECTS credits).

Practicals will be organized in groups according to the scheduled time.

The B programme (for students with health issues) is organized in collaboration with the doctor for each student separately.             

The C programme – the optional programme (hiking, skiing, summer camps with appropriate content) are not mandatory and will be organized as a way of compensating for missed classes.

A top athlete status – students who have a top athlete status, i.e. students who have been granted the title of a Croatian athlete in the I, II or III category by the Croatian Olympic Committee, are exempted from classes. In order to be exempted from classes, students have to provide a document from the Croatian Olympic Committee about the categorization.

Course aims, tasks, and learning outcomes:

Maintaining and improving students’ health by regularly applying kinesiological activities. Improving and increasing the fund motor information with the aim of promoting and preserving health (motor and functional abilities). Developing permanent habits and needs for kinesiological activities in a student’s everyday life, which would enable the student to overcome intellectual efforts more easily.

General course outline:

General preparatory and specific exercises through various organizational forms of work (with or without equipment and music)

Athletics: running (sprints, middle-distance, long distance tracks), jumps.

Swimming: teaching swimming to non-swimmers, swimming techniques (breaststroke, backstroke, and freestyle), and rescue swimming training.
 

Sports games: volleyball, basketball, five-a-side football (perfecting the technique and playing).

Racket game: Badminton.

Fitness: aerobics, step aerobics, machine exercise workout, yoga.

Hiking and walking tours.

Developing general competencies (knowledge and skills):
 

Positive influence on students' anthropological traits (anthropometrical characteristics, motor and functional abilities).
 

Developing specific competencies (knowledge and skills):
 

Developing students’ physical education for the purpose of maintaining and promoting their own health.

Satisfying the need for physical movement and creating a habit out of the everyday exercise.
Acquiring knowledge and skills for obtaining a certain level of motor achievement.

Training students for creative and individual research in various forms of P.E. and Health, especially those that contribute to humanization and socialization of a person.