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Overview of Surgery
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:18.08.2022 12:30:26
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KK_026 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Surgery | Target Audience: | Public Health | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Andrejs Vanags | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Surgery | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 13 Pilsonu Street, VSIA P.Stradiņa KUS, Block No 24, kk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67069745 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 3 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 6 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Anatomy, physiology, patologic physiology and psychology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Students gain the knowledge of emergency and elective abdominal surgical diseases, of the outbreak, pathogenesis, clinic, diagnosis, treatment, prevention principles. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Acute abdominal cavity surgical diseases (appendicitis, peritonitis). | Lectures | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 2 | Gallbladder disease. Acute cholecistytis. Complications of gallbladder disease. | Lectures | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 3 | Intestinal surgical diseases. Ileus. | Lectures | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 4 | Stomach and dudodenal surgical diseases. | Lectures | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 5 | Diaphragmatic hernia and abdominal wall hernias. | Lectures | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 6 | Surgical diseases (appendicitis, peritonitis) of acute abdominal cavity. Gallbladder surgical diseases. | Classes | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 7 | Stomach and dudodenal surgical diseases. | Classes | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 8 | Diaphragmatic hernia and abdominal wall hernias. Obrstruction of the bowel and small intestines. | Classes | 1.00 | other | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Independent work with literature. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | To pass the study course, students must fulfill these conditions 100%: watch the lectures, attend all the online classes, show active work in classes, as well as take all the multichoice tests on E-studies. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | The student should acquire knowledge of different surgical disease diagnosis and appropriate tactics for treatment. | ||||||||
| Skills: | On study course completion the student will be able to evaluate the various clinical situations in the context of surgical pathology. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | On completion of the study course, students will be able to: • analyse the findings of the investigation; • create the necessary laboratory and instrumental investigation plan for the patient; • argue, rationalise and to formulate expanded surgical clinical diagnosis; • formulate the conservative and surgical treatment. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | „Ķirurģija”, Profesora Jāņa Gardovska redakcijā, Rīga 2013. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Internets: emedicine.com | ||||||||
