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Pain Medicine
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:1.00
Study Course Accepted:21.03.2023 12:50:05
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | AURK_050 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ināra Logina | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 13 Pilsonu Street, VSIA P.Stradiņa KUS, Block No. 32, ark rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67069452 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 24 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic knowledge of biology, anatomy and physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and clinical disciplines. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Provide students with knowledge of main types of pain, mechanisms of pain development and treatment options. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction in pain medicine. Biological role of pain. Pain as biopsychosocial phenomenon | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 2 | Anatomy and physiology of pain | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 3 | Mechanisms of chronic pain and treatment options. The main types of chronic pain | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 4 | Pharmacotherapy of pain | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 5 | Examination and evaluation of pain | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Low back pain and other chronic musculoskeletal pain | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Headaches | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Neuropathic pain | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 9 | Chronic visceral pain | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 10 | Dysfunctional and somatoform pain syndromes – nociplastic pain. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 11 | Cancer related pain and pain in palliative care | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 12 | Multimodal pain treatment | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students get acquainted with the readings of the study programme independently and make a summary of the acquired information. They participate in discussions on specific clinical cases and analyse therapy and care. Students prepare demonstrations of clinical cases, analyse them and come up with recommendations for pain therapy and pain prevention | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | In order to successfully master the study course material and prepare for the final examination of the study course, the student performs the following activities – mandatory, not assessed with a mark, the execution of the assigned tasks with pass/fail is recorded (completed or not completed): 1. Completion of test tasks on the acquisition of video collection material in the 1st practical lesson 2. Participation in practical classes. For each missed lesson – prepare a written presentation or, as far as possible, participate in another group's lesson on the topic of the missed lesson 3. Solution and analysis of clinical cases in practical classes (pass/fail). The final assessment of the course consists of: 50% – a written exam consisting of two parts: a multiple-choice test with 25 theoretical questions (50%) and 2 clinical tasks (50%); 50% – attendance of practical classes and completed tasks | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Upon completion of the study course, students will be able to: • understand and describe the main mechanisms of pain development; • understand the main types and causes of pain and their biological meaning; • assess the complaints of pain patients, their role and impact in the clinical practice | ||||||||
| Skills: | The student will be able to: • examine and evaluate symptoms of pain patients and their needs at different stages of care; • identify the main types of pain and their causes in various clinical situations; • choose the most appropriate therapeutic options; • explain the pain mechanisms and therapeutic targets to patients, their relatives and care providers. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will be able to: • take part in planning of patient care at different stages of the disease; • prescribe relevant therapy to an individual patient on the basis of a biopsychosocial approach in cooperation with other medical professionals; • estimate short-term and long-term effects of pain therapy and solve prognostic tasks; • implement health promotion measures, prevention and early detection of problems | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | „Sāpes”. Prof. I. Loginas redakcijā. Rīga: Medicīnas apgāds, 2013. | ||||||||
| 2 | http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/310834-overview | ||||||||
| 3 | Waldman, Steven D. Pain management. Philadelphia Saunders, 2011. 2nd ed. | ||||||||
| 4 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For International students: | ||||||||
| 5 | Waldman, Steven D. Pain management. Philadelphia Saunders, 2011. 2nd ed. | ||||||||
| 6 | http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/310834-overview | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Logina, I. „Muguras sāpes”. Rīga: Nacionālais apgāds, 2006 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Pain: Clinical Updates. | ||||||||
| 2 | http://www.efic.org/ | ||||||||
| 3 | http://www.iasp-pain.org/ | ||||||||
