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About Study Course

ECTS:3
Course supervisor:Elga Bataraga
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Clinical medicine; Dermatology and venereal diseases

Objective

To train the medical residents of the specialty in dermatology, venereology in diagnosing and treating skin manifestations of neurological diseases, in diagnosing acute conditions in neurology, in establishing differential diagnosis of dermatovenereological and neurological diseases.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.Demonstrates the acquisition and development of in-depth understanding for the following topics:
1. Main forms of early neurosyphilis. Meningitis syphilitica asimptomatica
2. Meningitis syphilitica acuta (manifesta)
a.)Meningitis syphilitica acuta generalisata
b.)Meningitis syphilitica acuta diffusa (hidrocephalgia)
c.)Syphilis meningoneurotica
d.)Syphilis meningovascularis
3. Meningitis syphilitica chronica
4. Meningomielitis syphilitica
5. Gumma syphilitica cerebri et medullae spinalis
6. Main forms of the late-stage neurosyphilis. Syphilis cerebri vasculosa
7. Tabes dorsalis
8. Paralysis progressiva
9. Taboparalysis
10. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis
11. Symptoms of the frontal lobe disorders
12. Symptoms of the temporal lobe damage
13. Symptoms of the occipital lobe damage
14. Symptoms of the parietal lobe damage
15. Symptoms of the autonomic nervous system segmental part damage
16. Symptoms of the autonomic nervous system upper segmental part damage
17. Spinal cord injury symptoms
18. Brain and spinal cord injury symptoms

Skills

1.Neurological examination of a patient. Analysis of the results of radiological and MRI examination. Evaluation of the results of laboratory examinations.

Competence

1.After obtaining the certificate to be competent in working as a dermatologist and venereologist, to apply the knowledge acquired during the study process, to recognize and differentiate the skin and sexually transmitted diseases from other pathologies.