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Internal Diseases
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:19.08.2021 10:11:22
Study Course Information | |||||||||
Course Code: | ISK_197 | 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, iskrsu[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: | Normal anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology. | ||||||||
Objective: | Providing a student with methods of subjective and objective examination, and skills of interpretation of the additional examinations. | ||||||||
Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
1 | Methods of investigations for a patient. Interrogation and 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. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
6 | Endocrine and musculoskeletal diseases. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
Assessment | |||||||||
Unaided Work: | Patients’ examination and description. | ||||||||
Assessment Criteria: | Evaluate the patient's condition, analyze and explain abnormalities; formulate and justify a conclusion. | ||||||||
Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
Knowledge: | Know the basic methods of patients investigation, diseases symptoms. | ||||||||
Skills: | To be able to investigate patients, recognize abnormal findings, link them to a specific organ and system damage. | ||||||||
Competencies: | Evaluate the patient's condition, analyze and explain abnormalities; formulate and justify a conclusion. | ||||||||
Bibliography | |||||||||
No. | Reference | ||||||||
Required Reading | |||||||||
1 | Propedeitika. 5. izdevums /G.Orļikova un K.Pičkura red./ Rīga, 2014. | ||||||||
Additional Reading | |||||||||
1 | Klīniska medicīna prof. A.Lejnieka reakcijā, 1.-3. grāmatas. Nacionālais Medicīnas apgāds, 2010-2012. | ||||||||
Other Information Sources | |||||||||
1 | www.inbox.lv/ispropedeitika/faili. |