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Basics of Paediatrics III
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:19.08.2019 15:19:32
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PEK_040 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| 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: | Rīga, Vienības gatve 45, pk rsu[pnkts]lv, pkrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67621730 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 20 | Class Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 60 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 60 | ||||||||
| 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 his role in society. Foreign languages (Russian, English or German, Latin). Paediatric propaedeutic, pharmacology, pathological physiology, microbiology, internal diseases, skin diseases, infectious diseases, basics of paediatrics, paediatric infectious diseases. | ||||||||
| Objective: | During the course students will improve their knowledge about structural and functional peculiarities of a healthy child, regularity of growth and development from birth until 18 years, about most frequent paediatric diseases, including paediatric infectious diseases, as well as necessary skills and attitude for medical work with children and to use these skills to commence residency in paediatrics. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Practical clinical skills in children health managements (pathological changes in lung and/or heart function, newborn CPR.) | Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| 2 | Introduction to study programme, seminars, practical work, independent work of students. Observation and examination of patients. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 3 | Control of children infectious diseases in children groups (collectives) and hospital. Tasks for independent work of students (principles of rational (appropriate) antibacterial and antiviral treatment). | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 4 | Parenteral rehydration in children. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 5 | Children’s immunisation practice in Latvia. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Control of students’ independent work in children infectious diseases. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Characteristic of arterial hypertension in children. Measurement of BP in children. Stages and treatment of arterial hypertension. Acute arterial hypertension. ECG in children. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Acyanotic congenital heart defects: ASD, VSD, AVSD, PDA, Coarctation of the aorta. Pulmonary hypertension. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 9 | Cyanotic congenital heart defects: Transposition of the great arteries, Tetralogy of Fallot, Hypoplastic left heart syndrom. Acute and chronic heart failure in children. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 10 | Differential diagnosis of growth disorders. Disorders of puberty. Diagnostic algorithm for disorders of sex differentiation. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 11 | Differential diagnosis of anaemia in children. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 12 | Connective tissue illnesses. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 13 | Most frequent primary systemic vasculitides. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 14 | Inflammatory diseases in children – non-specific ulcerous colitis, Crohn’s disease, their features, diagnosis, treatment. Differential diagnosis with Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 15 | Tubular nephropathies. Cystic kidney diseases. Acute and chronic kidney failure. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 16 | Peculiarities of laboratory investigations in children at different ages. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 17 | Perinatal asphyxia. Resuscitation of newborn. Hypoxic – ischemic damage of CNS and other organs. Differential diagnosis of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and birth trauma. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 18 | Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Medical aspects of child abuse and violence. Shaken baby syndrome. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 19 | Chronic and recurrent respiratory diseases (asthma, cystic fibrosis, PCD, GERD with respiratory symptoms, non-CF bronchiectasis, immunodeficiency, bacterial bronchitis). Stridor, wheezing. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 20 | Control of the students’ independent work in paediatrics. | 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 of a 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. State examination takes place at the end of the study year after successful completion of practical lessons. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | The acquired knowledge will allow to understand digestive, respiratory, urinary and muscle systems and to 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: | 1. To administer basic instrumental and functional methods of investigations and evaluate the results. 2. 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. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Rudolph C.D., Rudolph A.M., Lister G.E., First L.R., Gershon A.A. Pediatric. 22th ed. McGraw-Hill Company, 2011. | ||||||||
| 2 | Robert M. Kliegman, MD, Bonita M.D. Stanton, MD, Joseph St. Geme, Nina Schor and Richard E. Behrman, M.D. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 20th Edition, W. B. Saunders Company, 2016 | ||||||||
| 3 | Red Book: 2012 (or 2009) Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book: Report of the Committee on Infectious Disease) by Larry K., Ed. Pickering | ||||||||
| 4 | Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease: Expert Consult Basic, by Sarah S. Long MD, Larry K. Pickering MD and Charles G. Prober MD (2018, Elsevier Inc) | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | PEDINFO, Medscape, E medicine, PubMed, EndoText, BMJ Clinical Evidence, BMJ Journals, Cochrane Library, DynaMed, MD Consult, PubMed, Science Direct | ||||||||
