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About Study Course

ECTS:24
Course supervisor:Anita Brila
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Clinical medicine; Public and environmental health

Objective

During the study course a medical resident acquires knowledge about the subject of epidemiology of infectious diseases, methods, tasks and objectives, ecological and epidemiological classification of infectious diseases, structure of epidemic process, description of characteristics of the epidemic process: incidence rate, focus, permanent periodic and seasonal fluctuations of the epidemic process within a year and territorial distribution regularities. Record keeping and registration procedure of infectious diseases for the purpose of epidemiologic examination of focus of infection, tasks and algorithms.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.As a result of acquisition of the study course a medical resident acquires knowledge about the subject of epidemiology of infectious diseases, methods, tasks and objectives, ecological and epidemiological classification of infectious diseases, structure of epidemic process, description of characteristics of epidemic process: incidence rate, focus, permanent periodic and seasonal fluctuations of epidemic process within a year and territorial distribution regularities, the procedure for registration of data about infectious diseases and epidemiological examination principles of a disease case.

Skills

1.As a result of acquisition of the study course a medical resident will be able to record (register) infectious diseases, perform epidemiological examination of the case, and determine the limits of the focus of infection for the implementation of anti-epidemic measures.

Competence

1.As a result of acquisition of the study course a medical resident will obtain competence and will be able to independently register information on disease cases and perform epidemiological examination the case.