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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 6
Course supervisor:Sergejs Babikovs
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Medicine
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine; Internal Medicine

Objective

- to provide students with the principles of deontology;
- to introduce students to the methods of subjective and objective examination – survey, inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation, results interpretation;
- to instruct students on assessment of laboratory and instrumental data, students learn how to write academic medical history;
- to encourage students in clinical thinking and decision-making. (symptom – organ damage – syndrome).
- to learn how to define and recognize white blood cells (WBC) of the whole blood count, as well as neutrophils, lymphocytes, eosinophils, basophils, monocytes. To learn neutropenia evaluation, it's categorization. To learn hemoglobine and RBC changes/alterations. To learn platelets count changes/alterations. To learn RBC and WBC morphology possible changes.
- to learn blood count changes due to clinical manifestations of the hematologic disorders. To learn methods of examination applied in case of hematology disorders.
- to learn how to define anemia, to recognize main characteristics and clinical findings due to anemia. To learn how to recognize type of anemia according to laboratory classification. To learn how to diagnose and treat iron-deficiency anemia, B12 deficiency anemia, folic acid deficiency anemia. To learn hemolytic anemia definition, diagnostic criteria.
- to learn how to define and treat bleeding disorders, vasopathy, thrombocytopenia, thrombocytopathy, coagulopathy. To learn degrees of the severity for thrombocytopenia. To learn laboratory data applied for bleeding disorders classification. To learn hemophilia fin Willebrand disease, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler disease) diagnosis and treatment.

Prerequisites

Normal anatomy, histology, normal physiology, biochemistry and principles of medical physics, biology and basics of genetics.
Normal bone marrow, normal hematopoesis, normal blood coagulation, coagulation factors. Normal blood cells, functions.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- discuss the latest medical technologies, examination methods, scientific disciplines;
- sequentially arrange the obtained information to identify possible risk factors;
- to recognize the level of pathology, considering all the data obtained by means of physical examination (inspection, palpating, percussion, auscultation and performing instrumental examination when necessary).

Skills

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- speak to patients, their relatives, colleagues, other persons involved in the process of health care;
- specify the complaints, medical history;
- perform inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation;
- interpret the results of bronchoscopy;
- measure forced expiratory volume;
- recognize signs of clinical and laboratory kidney and liver pathology;
- recognize joint and spine pathologies.

Competence

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- evaluate symptoms, reveal interconnections between pathologies;
- evaluate lung functional examination data, relate it to the certain clinical case;
- evaluate sputum test, attribute to certain clinical case and general examination data;
- evaluate pleural puncture results, relate it to a particular clinical situation and link it with the overall investigation process;
- evaluate blood test results, recognize main hematology disorders, attribute to a specific clinical case and general examination data;
- evaluate urine test results, attribute to a specific clinical case and general examination data;
- analyze situations, substantiate, logically formulate and explain their opinion.

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