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About Study Course

ECTS:16.05
Course supervisor:Sarmīte Skaida
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Clinical medicine; Psychiatry

Objective

To ensure the acquisition of theoretical knowledge and practical skills required for the detection, recognition and description of symptoms and syndromes of psychiatric disorders.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.Knowledge on the levels of psychopathological symptoms and syndromes, awareness of psychopathological symptom groups and the specific nature of psychopathological syndromes.

Skills

1.To develop an emphatic, supportive clinical conversation with a patient, to systematically obtain all required information in order to qualify the syndrome; to evaluate the change of state in drawing up the dynamic history of the disease - summarising of subjective and objective data of the anamnesis and precise reflection of the psychiatric and neurological condition in medical documentation.

Competence

1.In communication with patients as they are in different psychological states, with their relatives, with other members of patient care team either at the inpatient institution or in outpatient settings, while observing the ethical and legal conditions.