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Basics of Paediatrics I
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:15.08.2022 14:17:11
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PEK_037 | 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: | 1. 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. 2. Foreign languages (Russian, English or German, Latin). 3. Preclinical disciplines: human anatomy and functions (1st, 2nd, 3rd year disciplines) clinical medicine, propaedeutics. | ||||||||
| 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 | Paediatrics as a branch of medicine. Early stages of human development. Characteristics of childhood stages. Healthy child. Development of children. Health status of children in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Term, post-term, pre-term newborn. Evaluation of development of a newborn – gestational age, child’s accordance to gestational age. Adaptation periods of a newborn, their signs and course. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Peculiarities of the respiratory system. Airway obstructive syndrome. Respiratory distress syndrome. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Anatomical-functional properties of the gastrointestinal organ system. Chronic feeding impairments and malabsorption syndrome. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Introduction to paediatrics. Paediatrics as a branch of medicine. Stages of early human development, their characteristics and course. Characteristics of childhood stages, their physiology and pathology. A conversation and communication with a child and parents – history taking, evaluation of obtained data. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | The growth and development of a child: physical, psychomotor and sexual development. Regulation of the process of growth. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Principles of nutrition of children up to 18 years of age. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | The structural (anatomical) and physiological peculiarities of musculoskeletal system, differential diagnosis of diseases. Vitamin D deficiency. Differential diagnosis, treatment, and prophylaxis of rickets. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 9 | The neonatal period – evaluation of development of a newborn – gestational age, child’s accordance to gestational age, weight, length. Determination of the gestational age. Adaptation period of a newborn –signs and course. Differential diagnosis of neonatal jaundice. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 10 | Anatomical and physiological properties of a child’s skin and subcutaneous layer. Atopic and seborrheic dermatitis. Local infections during neonatal period (skin, umbilicus, eyes). | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 11 | Anatomical and physiological properties of respiratory organs. Acute bronchitis, bronchiolitis with weezing. Pneumonia depending on the age of children. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 12 | Anatomical and physiological features of urogenital system in children. Urinary infections (complicated, uncomplicated). | 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 a patient’s clinical case of certain pathology using problem-oriented scheme of case-record. • Preparation list of used literature according to 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): | Test (Semester) | ||||||||
| 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: | Interpret clinical analysis, apply it to a specific clinical situation and relate it to a common investigative process. Through integrative thinking, compare the signs of pathology with normal parameters of morphology and homeostasis, know the symptoms of the disease, explain the pathology, formulate a diagnosis and differentiate it from other diagnoses, check the probability of the most frequent complications, predict the course and consequences of the pathological process. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Pediatrijas 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… | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 21st Edition. Kliegman, Robert M. 2020 (e-vide pieejama RSU bibliotekā ClinicalKey datu bāzē) | ||||||||
| 2 | Rudolph C.D., Rudolph A.M., et.al. Pediatric. 22th Edition. McGraw-HillCompany, 2011. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Interneta informācijas avoti: PEDINFO, Medscape, E medicine, PubMed, EndoText , BMJ Clinical Evidence, BMJ Journals, Cochrane Library, DynaMed, Science Direct | ||||||||
