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Differential Diagnostics and Current Issues in Treatment of Internal Diseases (Endocrinology, Hematology, Pulmonology)
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:29.07.2020 14:33:51
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | ISK_202 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Internal Medicine | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Jūlija Voicehovska | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Internal Diseases | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 2 Hipokrata Street, isk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67042139 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Preliminary knowledge of propaedeutics, pathology, pharmacology, immunology, dermatology, biochemistry. Students should know the topics of previous internal diseases courses. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Students will learn the latest updates and issues of diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment in the fields of Hematology, Endocrinology and Pulmonology. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Endocrine hyper- and hypotension. Endocrine comas. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 2 | Differential diagnosis of thyroid pathology. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 3 | Anaemia, differential diagnostic, treatment updates. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 4 | Haemorrhagic diathesis and laboratory differential diagnostic. Differential diagnostic of vasopathy, thrombocytopenia, platelet function disturbances, coagulopathy. Thrombocytopenic purpura. Gestation thrombocytopenia. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 5 | Differential diagnostic of lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly. Neutropenic syndrome, reasons, latest treatments. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Assessment of dyspnoea. Differential diagnosis. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Assessment of haemoptysis, differential diagnosis. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Obstructive lung diseases, differential diagnosis and treatment novelties. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual work with a patient – history collection, interpretation of examinations, development of a treatment plan, formulation of a possible diagnosis; establishment of a patient's disease history under the lecturer's and physician's supervision; presentation and defence of the study research paper. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | According to the State Exam evaluation criteria. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test (Semester) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | The acquisition of study subject results in knowledge of the most important aetiology of endocrinological, respiratory and haematological diseases, pathogenesis, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis and treatment. Students will learn about the principles of filling medical documentation in hospital circumstances. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students will be able to communicate with patients and colleagues, identify endocrinological, respiratory and haematological diseases listed in the study description, their severity and pattern/course of development, differentiate them, justify diagnosis, prescribe the necessary investigative plan and assess results, prescribe treatment for certain patients, design the necessary medical documentation. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | The acquired competencies of the study course will allow purposeful and structured examination of the patient's history, assessment of the patient's vital signs (namely, patient's state of consciousness, breathing, heart rate, central and peripheral pulse, arterial blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation, body temperature, diuresis) the components and symptomatology that affect it will allow the patient's health status to be evaluated, normality and deviation interpreted, and the finding and specific situation to be attributed, and the next tactic to decide. It will allow to recognize acute medical conditions, to organize timely assistance, to interpret the results of various examinations and formulate the appropriate conclusions, to plan treatment tactics. The acquired competencies will allow to perform manipulations appropriate to the respective pathological condition, to write prescriptions, to fill in medical documentation in accordance with the requirements of regulatory enactments. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | A. Lejnieks. Klīniskā medicīna. 1.-3..grāmatas.Nacionālais apgāds, 2010-2012 | ||||||||
| 2 | Safron Whitehead, John Miell „Clinical endocrinology” Scion Publishing.com 2013. | ||||||||
| 3 | Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 12th edition, 2011 | ||||||||
| 4 | Harrison`s Principles of Internal Medicine. 18-th ed, 2011 | ||||||||
| 5 | The Merck Manual of diagnosis and therapy, 2011, 19.ed. | ||||||||
| 6 | Marshall A.Lichtman, Ernest Beutler, Thomas J.Kipps, Uri Seligsohn, Kenneth kaushansky, Josef T. Prchal. Williams Hematology. Seventh Edition. 2006. | ||||||||
| 7 | DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology (Cancer Principles and Practice of Oncology) by Vincent T. DeVita Jr. Jr. MD, Theodore S. Lawrence PhD MD, Steven A. Rosenberg MD PhD, Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilk | ||||||||
| 8 | S.Lejniece. Klīniskā hematoloģija. Nacionālais Medicīnas Apgāds, 2005. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | S.Lejniece. Klīniskā hematoloģija. Nacionālais Medicīnas Apgāds, 2002. | ||||||||
