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Basics of Paediatrics II
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:17.08.2022 10:48:34
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PEK_038 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Paediatrics | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Valda Staņēviča | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Paediatrics | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 45 Vienibas gatve, pk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67621730 | ||||||||
| 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: | Knowledge in humanitarian and social studies disciplines, which develop skills of critical and creative thinking, comprehension of a human as a living being and its role in society. Foreign languages (Russian, English or German, Latin). Preclinical disciplines: human anatomy and functions (1st, 2nd, 3rd year disciplines) clinical medicine, internal diseases. | ||||||||
| Objective: | During the course students will acquire knowledge about structural and functional peculiarities of a healthy child, regularity of growth and development from birth until 18 years, most frequent paediatric diseases, as well as necessary skills and attitude for medical work with children and to use these skills to commence the course “Paediatric diseases”. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Most common haemato-oncological diseases in children and their characteristics. Particularities of leukaemia in children. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Characteristics of heart, blood vessels and ECG in children. Most frequent rhythm disturbances in children. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Characteristics of kidney diseases with nephrotic or nephritic syndrome in children. Kidney and urinary tract infections in children. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Diabetes in children. Guidelines for diagnostics, treatment and care of children with diabetes mellitus type 1. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Characteristics of haematopoiesis in children, peculiarities of total blood count in children. Iron deficiency anaemia, its causes, pathogenesis, clinics, diagnostics and prevention. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Congenital hypothyroidism. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Characteristics of diabetes mellitus in children. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Post-streptococcal illness in children. Rheumatic fever, characteristics of primary rheumatism in children, aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis, treatment, prophylaxis. Acquired heart disease (mitral, aortic, tricuspid insufficiency and stenosis). | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 9 | Juvenile idiopathic arthritis – etiology, pathogenesis, characteristics, treatment. Acute arthritis. Examination of joints. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 10 | Haemorrhagic syndrome. Characteristics of leukaemia, thrombocytopenia, haemophilia in different ages. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 11 | Gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and pancreatitis in children. Chronic abdominal pain in children – differential diagnosis and management. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 12 | Test – testing practical skills of patient examination and conclusion forming. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | 1. Practical classes when students analyse the theoretical material, complete situation task, discuss clinical cases, attend clinical conferences and participate in counselling. 2. Clinical examination of patients and work with medical case-records. 3. Preparation of clinical cases with tasks, which include: • Analysis of patient’s clinical case of certain pathology using problem-oriented scheme of case-record. • Preparation list of used literature according to a clinical case. • Review of most frequently used medications. • Presentation of clinical case. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1. During the study course the assessment of student’s knowledge, skills and competencies is carried out in practical lessons, patient evaluation, control tests in lessons (case reports, multiple choice tests, case tasks, etc.), discussions in small groups about theoretical questions and clinical cases, independent work control, written test at the end of the practical lessons. 2. Examination takes place at the end of the 5th study year after successful completion of lecture course and practical lessons. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | The acquired knowledge will allow to understand digestive, respiratory, urinary and muscle systems and prevalence of diseases, to administer the facts about influence of disease risk factors, primary prevention, morphology, etiology, pathology, diagnostics and treatment, including clinical pharmacology, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, intensive care and secondary prevention in paediatrics. | ||||||||
| Skills: | To collect data of child’s family and medical history. To perform child’s physical examination. To be able to communicate with the child patient and their parents or other caregivers and relatives. To conclude after the collection of results and perform necessary therapeutic and preventive actions. To define patient’s problems in a structured manner, offering possible diagnostic, differential diagnostic, therapeutic and prophylactic solutions within their competency. To document the results in case reports and report them to colleagues, using the correct medical terminology, considering the principles of ethics and demands of personal data protection. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To administer basic instrumental and functional methods of investigations and evaluate the results. To administer basic laboratory tests and evaluate the results, recognising normal conditions from pathologies in a typical course of disease. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Katedras mācību metodiskie materiāli; | ||||||||
| 2 | Mācību metodiskie materiāli Pediatrijā; | ||||||||
| 3 | Modificētās slimību vēstures shēma MF studentiem; | ||||||||
| 4 | Metodiskās rekomendācijas Bērnu reimatoloģijā; | ||||||||
| 5 | http://www.partika.lv/sakums/Ricibas_plans/5._Bernu_veselib… | ||||||||
| 6 | Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 21st Edition. Kliegman, Robert M. 2020 (e-vide pieejama RSU bibliotekā ClinicalKey datu bāzē) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Rudolph C.D., Rudolph A.M., Lister G.E., First L.R., Gershon A.A. (editors). Rudolph’s Pediatrics. 22nd Edition. McGraw-Hill Company, 2011. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Citi informācijas avoti: PEDINFO, Medscape, E medicine, PubMed, EndoText u.c | ||||||||
