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Occupational Medicine and Occupational Diseases among Midwives
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:15.02.2023 11:24:04
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | AUVMK_023 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Health Care | Target Audience: | Nursing Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Maija Eglīte | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 16 Dzirciema Street, avmk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67060816 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 11 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 22 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Prior knowledge in chemistry, biochemistry, physics, microbiology, propedeutics, neurology and physiology is required. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The objective of the study course is to learn the theoretical foundations and practical methods of occupational medicine and occupational diseases on the impact of various risk factors of the working environment on the health of workers, prediction, identification, assessment, control, prevention or reduction, as well as the aetiology, pathogenesis, principles of treatment and rehabilitation of occupational diseases. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | List of occupational diseases. Procedures for diagnosing occupational diseases in Latvia. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 2 | Occupational health and occupational medicine. List of occupational diseases. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Indoor air pollution and impact thereof on health. Sick building syndrome. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Occupational health for health care workers. Work-related body specifics of young people and women. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Occupational health for health care workers. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Ergonomic work environment risk factors for health care workers. Preventive measures. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Ergonomic work environment risk factors. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Psychosocial work environment risk factors for health care workers. Burnout syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Occupational diseases caused by psycho-emotional risk factors. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Diseases of the musculoskeletal, connective tissue system. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Peripheral neuropathies. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Biological risk factors in health care. Chemicals as risk factors in health care. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Biological risk factors in health care. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 14 | Chemicals as risk factors in health care. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 15 | Presentation of the paper. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | The student independently prepares a presentation during the course, which is presented to the group with the aim of studying in depth one of the topics covered in the course. Tasks: • To choose a topic for in-depth research and analysis, using the latest data and research from around the world; • To prepare a presentation (10 minutes), present it to the group; • To prepare to answer questions and take part in the discussion after the presentation. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | During the course, the student is assessed according to the following criteria: 1. 100% attendance is required for a student to be eligible to take the exam for this course. 2. The student actively participates in classes, analyses situational tasks and patient cases – 20% of the total assessment; 3. The student prepares an independent presentation during the course, which is presented to the group: 30% of the total assessment; 4. At the end of the course, the student takes an exam (in written form), getting 3 random examination papers and 1 situational task: 50% of the total assessment. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | As a result of completing the study course, students will obtain knowledge and will be able: • to explain the meaning, principles, directions and objectives of occupational medicine; • to describe the prediction of occupational risk factors, measurement methods, basic principles of standardisation, regulatory documents developed and implemented in legislation; • to formulate the basic issues of ergonomics, importance thereof, methods used in different work environments; • to briefly describe the ways of developing preventive measures and monitoring of the work environment; • to describe the aetiology of occupational diseases caused by occupational risk factors and work-related diseases, pathogenesis, therapy, rehabilitation. | ||||||||
| Skills: | As a result of completing the study course, students will be able: • to independently, critically analyse, substantiate and justify the role of occupational medicine as a preventive branch of medicine in the work environment; • to orient in literature and online databases to find the necessary information on occupational risk factors in the work environment and occupational examination; • to carry out a sanitary and hygienic inspection of various objects of the work environment, revealing occupational risk factors that are unfavourable and harmful to human health; • to prepare recommendations, organise and manage measures to prevent or reduce the risk of occupational factors; • to recognise the typical signs and forms of the most common occupational diseases caused by physical, chemical, ergonomic, biological and mechanical risk factors in the work environment, and choose the correct methods of examination; • to prescribe the optimal therapeutic and rehabilitation course for patients. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | The acquired competence allows to: • to assess the degree of danger of harmful risk factors to the health of the patient, worker, society and the environment; • to take part in an occupational health team to address issues related to health and safety at work, to detect occupational diseases at an early stage and to help with occupational examination issues; • to communicate with people of different competences and backgrounds on occupational health issues; • to take evidence-based, verifiable decisions in relation to the health of patients, the public as a whole and the state of the environment; • to propose, plan and implement measures to improve treatment conditions and eliminate or reduce deficiencies in the organisation of the work environment. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Higiēna. Prof. Z.Lindbergas red., Rīga, 1991. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Eglīte M. Darba medicīna. – Rīga, 2012. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 3 | Dundurs, Jānis, Occupational health : occupational hazards / J. Dundurs ; Riga Stradina University. Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health. Riga : [RSU], 1998. 84 p. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 4 | Dundurs J. Methodic Directions for Practical Works in Occupational Health. 2001. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Zenc C (ed). Occupational medicine. Mosby, 1988. | ||||||||
| 2 | Rom WN. Environmental and occupational medicine. Boston, Little, Brown, 2007 | ||||||||
| 3 | Timbrell J. Introduction to Toxicology. Glasgow: Taylor & Francis, 2009. | ||||||||
| 4 | Pruss-Ustun A, Bos R, Gore F, Bartram J. Safer water, better health: costs, benefits and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health. World Health Organization, Geneva, 2008. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Pasaules veselības organizācijas un citas arodveselības nozares interneta vietnes. | ||||||||
