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Non-traditional (Integrative) Medicine
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:20.01.2023 13:27:58
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | FKK_027 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Basic Sciences of Medicine, including Pharmacy; Pharmaceutical Pharmacology | Target Audience: | Clinical Pharmacy | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inga Gūtmane | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, Dzirciema street 16, A-building. 5th 502.kab., Gmk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061544 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 18 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 2 | Class Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 6 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic knowledge in anatomy and physiology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Provide student with knowledge about those branches of medicine nowadays that are called integrative (non-traditional) in our state. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to non-traditional methods | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Principles of Eastern medicine. Acupuncture | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Work with body's active points | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Applied psychology nowadays and its usage in medicine. Hypnosis | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Principles of biophysical medicine. Bioresonance | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Homeopathy – history and usage in medicine | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Internship in homeopathic pharmacy | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Student individually reads provided materials, gathers information. Creates an evaluation of a clinical pharmacy in situations of medicamentous therapy. It is recommended to fill in the study course survey, evaluating the existing course content and creating proposals for updating the course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Active participation in practical classes; timely handed in and qualitative homework, quality of oral answers provided (50%); Test: knowledge on acquired topics is tested (50%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students will obtain knowledge and understanding, which allow to describe that integrative (non-traditional) branches of medicine that are included in "Certified medical and diagnostic list of methods" in our state and several methods, which at this moment are not certified, but are useful in the world and in our state. | ||||||||
| Skills: | As a result of the study course acquisition students will be able to differentiate integrative medicine branches and explain their essence. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | As a result of the study course students will be able to explain the application of integrative medicine branches in order to improve the quality of life of the patient. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Lekciju un nodarbību materiāli. | ||||||||
| 2 | Jirgens fon Rozens. 15 soļi hronisko slimību ārstēšanā. Rīga, LMA apgāds, 1995. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Kligler, Benjamin., and A. Lee, Roberta. Integrative Medicine – Principles for Practice. McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division, NY, 2004. | ||||||||
| 2 | Xinnong Cheng. Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion. Foreign Languages Press – Beijing, 2009. | ||||||||
| 3 | Tianjun Liu, O. M. D. (Editor in Chief). Chinese medical Qigong. Singing Dragon, London – Philadelphia, 2010. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | BMC Complementary and alternative medicine. | ||||||||
| 2 | QI- journal. | ||||||||
| 3 | Yin-Yang House. | ||||||||
