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Internal Diseases
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:02.09.2021 16:22:13
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | ISK_195 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Internal Medicine | Target Audience: | Rehabilitation | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Larisa Umnova | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Internal Diseases | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 2 Hipokrata Street, isk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67042338 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 2 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 4 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic knowledge of the human body's physiology, pathology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To introduce students with the basics of internal diseases. Train students in internal diseases diagnosis and treatment principles. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Methods of investigation for a patient. Interrogation and general inspection of a patient. A concept of symptom and syndrome, their role in diagnosis and differential diagnosis of a disease. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Cardiovascular diseases. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Cardiovascular diseases: risk factors, causes, clinical presentations, treatment options, complications and prevention. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 4 | Respiratory diseases: risk factors, causes, clinical presentations, treatment options, complications and prevention. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 5 | Gastrointestinal and urinary system diseases: risk factors, causes, clinical presentations, treatment options, complications and prevention. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Endocrine and musculoskeletal diseases. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual work – work with patients, according to the course topics. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Attending classes, Preparing for the classes, Individual work analysis. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | • to understand and be able to describe the origin of the main internal diseases and it’s symptoms; • be able to provide a summary of patients’ investigation results. | ||||||||
| Skills: | • to recognize the main internal diseases; • be able to evaluate if the patient needs to be consulted by other specialist; • to evaluate treatment principles correctly. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will be able to apply knowledge in internal diseases in Audiospeech therapist work. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Lejnieka A. red. Klīniskā medicīna. Rīga, MA, 2010-2012. | ||||||||
| 2 | Orļikovs G., Pičkurs K. Propedeitika. Rīga, RSU, IV izdevums, 2014. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Merck manual [of diagnosis and therapy]. 20th ed. 2018. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://estudijas.rsu.lv/index.php | ||||||||
