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About Study Course

ECTS:6
Course supervisor:Sandra Rozenštoka
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Clinical medicine; Paediatrics

Objective

To ensure acquisition and improvement of theoretical knowledge and practical skills in paediatrics according to the requirements of sport medicine physicians’ specialty.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.Knowledge of mutual interconnection of sports medicine as a multidisciplinary field of medicine and paediatrics. The knowledge obtained in functioning of cardiovascular, respiratory and other systems in children during rest and physical load, as well as in treatment, diagnostics, dynamics, treatment methods, rehabilitation and indications to stop or decrease the physical load in case of different heart diseases, arterial hypertension, bronchial asthma, diabetes mellitus and other diseases. Knowledge about injuries of the movement support apparatus in children and adolescents, their treatment methods and physical load regimes.

Skills

1.Ability to examine, assess and prepare a treatment plan in simple cases for different paediatric patients, to reasonably select and interpret the obtained examination data and results of the functional assessment methods. Ability to assess physical development, posture and its disorders in children and adolescents.

Competence

1.Competence in solving different clinical cases and application of the obtained knowledge in sports medicine physician’s practice.