Differential Diagnostics and Current Issues in Treatment of Internal Diseases (Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Rheumatology) (ISK_201)
About Study Course
Objective
Students will learn the latest updates and issues of diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment in the fields of Rheumatology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology.
Prerequisites
Preliminary knowledge of propaedeutics, pathology, pharmacology, immunology, dermatology, biochemistry. Students should know the topics of previous internal diseases courses.
Learning outcomes
The acquisition of study subjects results in knowledge of the most important etiology of renal, gastrointestinal and joints diseases, pathogenesis, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis and treatment. Students will learn about the principles of filling medical documentation in hospital circumstances.
Students will be able to communicate with patients and colleagues, identify renal, gastrointestinal and joints diseases listed in the study description, their severity and pattern/course of development, differentiate them, justify diagnosis, prescribe the necessary investigative plan and assess results, prescribe treatment for certain patients, design the necessary medical documentation.
The acquired competencies of the study course will allow purposeful and structured examination of the patient's history, assessment of the patient's vital signs (namely, patient's state of consciousness, breathing, heart rate, central and peripheral pulse, arterial blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation, body temperature, diuresis) the components and symptomatology that affect it; will allow the patient's health status to be evaluated, normality and deviation interpreted, and the findings and specific situation to be attributed, and the next tactics to be decided. It will allow to recognize acute medical conditions, to organize timely assistance, to interpret the results of various examinations and formulate the appropriate conclusions, to plan treatment tactics. The acquired competencies will allow to perform manipulations appropriate to the respective pathological condition, to write prescriptions, to fill in medical documentation in accordance with the requirements of regulatory enactments.
