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About Study Course

ECTS:1.95
Course supervisor:Aleksejs Višņakovs
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Anatomy; Clinical medicine

Objective

Description of most common infection deseases.
to promote knowledge acquisition and to develop understanding and skills related to clinical manifestations, differential diagnosis, emergency medicine of most common infectious diseases in prehospital and hospital stage.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.• describe acute infection symptoms, diagnostic methods and treatment;
• explain fever differential diagnosis;
• arrange symptoms of infectious diseases, internal diseases and surgical diseases for differential diagnosis.

Skills

1.• formulate indications for immediate hospitalization of infectious patients;
• organise examination and treatment plan;
• difference infection deseases from internal and surcigal deseases;
• initiate immediate treatment of deseases in pre-hospital and hospital stage;
• fill the urgent report on infectious diseases;
• take samples of biological material for diagnostic of infectious diseases.
Clinical skills: Gastric lavage through a probe, Peripheral venous catheterisation, Take samples of biological material for diagnostic of infectious diseases.

Competence

1.the most common infectious disease diagnosis, differential diagnosis and emergency provision of pre-hospital and hospital stage.