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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Vilnis Lietuvietis
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Medicine
Language:English, Latvian
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine

Objective

Students will acquire knowledge of urologic diseases, their aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical picture, diagnostics, principles of treatment and prevention.

Prerequisites

Anatomy, physiology and pathology of the urogenital system, basics of propaedeutics.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

On successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
• list and describe urologic diseases, their aetiology and pathogenesis;
• explain diagnostics, principles of treatment and prevention of urologic diseases;
• describe up-to-date methods of clinical, laboratory and instrumental investigation;
• discuss surgical treatment methods and their indications.

Skills

On successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
• collect complaints and anamnesis of urologic patients;
• perform examination of a patient with a urologic disease using palpation, percussion and auscultation;
• do urinary catheterisation on male and female (on moulage);
• do rectal examination (on moulage).

Competence

On successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
• analyse the data acquired during the urologic patient examination;
• prepare necessary laboratory and instrumental investigation plan for the patient;
• interpret the data acquired by laboratory and instrumental investigation methods;
• formulate and justify a full clinical diagnosis;
• define indications for surgical and conservative treatment.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Medicine, SSNMF10Master’sRequiredIvars Kukulis, Linards Rēdmanis, Arvis Freimanis, Juris Jansons, Jānis Bērziņš, Alberts Belovs, Sven Olaf Laabs
Medicine, MF10Master’sRequiredIvars Kukulis, Linards Rēdmanis, Inese Tikmere, Alberts BelovsJānis Bērziņš, Vilnis Lietuvietis, Arvis Freimanis, Kļims Ļeoņenko, Juris Jansons, Māris Jakubovskis, Sanda Siliņa,