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Basics of Paediatrics II
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:12.12.2023 11:15:30
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PEK_051 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Paediatrics | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Valda Staņēviča | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Paediatrics | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 45 Vienības gatve, pk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67621730 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 30 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 30 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | In the humanities and social sciences disciplines that develop students’ critical creative thinking skills, understanding of a human as a living being and its role in the society. In foreign languages (Russian, English or German, Latin). Preclinical theoretical knowledge of the structure and function of the human body (disciplines of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th year of study), clinical medicine, internal disease course. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide students with knowledge of structural and functional features of the child’s body, development from birth to 18 years, frequent childhood illnesses, as well as to develop the necessary skills and attitudes in the work of a general practitioner with children. Contents: • Physical, mental and social health of the child • Nutrition and its role in various stages of the child’s age • The most common pathology in early, preschool, school age • Structural and functional features of the organ systems (digestive, endocrine, joint and connective tissue systems, cardiovascular, haematopoietic systems) and their most common diseases • Emergency paediatric conditions in simulated situations • Promoting health at childhood. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and pancreatitis in children. Chronic abdominal pain in children- differential diagnosis. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 2 | Peculiarities of diabetes mellitus in children. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 3 | Juvenile idiopathic arthritis –aetiology, pathogenesis, characteristics, differential diagnosis, treatment. Acute arthritis. Examination of joints. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 4 | Post-streptococcal non-purulent complications in children. Primary rheumatic fever, characteristics of primary rheumatic fever, pathogenesis, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment, prevention. Post- streptococcal arthritis. PANDAS syndrome. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 5 | Liver pathology in children – non-infectious hepatitis. Hepatic failure. Peculiarities of inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis) in children. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Haemorrhagic syndrome in children. Leucosis, thrombocytopenia, haemophilia, peculiarities in different age groups of children. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Most common tumours in children. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | The most common primary vasculitis in children (Purpura Schönlein-Henoch, Kawasaki disease, Polyarteritis nodosa, Granulomatous vasculitis, Takayasu’s arteritis). Diffuse connective tissue disorders in children (SLE, JDM, Mixed connective tissue disease, Scleroderma). | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 9 | Skills in performing CPR on children of various age groups. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 10 | Test of practical skills of examination of patients and drawing up a conclusion. Presentation of patients/clinical cases. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | The knowledge acquired in the course is tested using multiple-choice tests, which students complete in the e-study environment in each lesson. Before each lesson, the student prepares and familiarizes himself with the current material, using the self-control questions available in the e-environment for each lesson. For the assessment lesson, the student creates a PowerPoint presentation about the examined patient/clinical case given by the lecturer, in which he puts the name of the clinical case, summary, introduction, case presentation, discussion and reference. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Test performance is automatically graded in the e-study environment and constitutes 50% of the daily lesson grade. The other half of the grade (50%) is made up of the students' involvement in the lesson - the ability to answer the questions asked by the lecturer + analyzes of clinical cases. The exam grade is calculated as: 50% class grade (average class grade + test class/2) + 50% exam grade (test (70%) + clinical case (30%). Exam with cumulative assessment (for students who received the "automatic" option at the end of the course "Fundamentals of Pediatrics I" in the 4th academic year) - for all students who have successfully passed each of the study results verification tests and received an average cumulative assessment of 7 or higher - (lecture test (grade from course "Basics of paediatrics I" lecture test) + average grade for the practical lesson + test score)/3 – no additional exam is required. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | The acquired knowledge will allow to identify the most common diseases of the digestive, endocrine systems, joint and connective tissues, cardiovascular, haematopoietic systems, their prevalence and peculiarities in different age groups of the child, to describe and present facts about the impact of disease risk factors, and aspects of primary prevention, morphology, aetiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment, including clinical pharmacology, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, intensive care, and secondary prevention. | ||||||||
| Skills: | To find out patient complaints and anamnesis. To perform physical examination of the patient by palpation, percussion and auscultation. To take peripheral pulse, heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure, assign them to a specific clinical situation and link them to the overall examination process. To apply basic knowledge of reasoning, logic, and rhetoric to analyse practical situations, discuss, explain one’s opinion, and constructively contribute to the achievement of professional goals and fulfilment of specific tasks. To be able to communicate with patients, their relatives, colleagues, other people involved in health care. To plan independent improvement of one’s own communication skills, respecting other people’s different levels of knowledge, experience, tradition, culture and other individual personality characteristics. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To interpret clinical test results, relate them to a specific clinical situation, and link them to the overall examination process. To compare signs of pathology with normal parameters of morphology and homeostasis using integrative thinking, recognise disease symptoms, explain pathology, formulate a diagnosis and differentiate it from other diagnoses, check for the most common complications, predict the course and consequences of the pathological process. | ||||||||
| Clinical Skills: | |||||||||
| No. | Skill | Level | |||||||
| 1 | Evaluation of diagnostic significance of autoantibodies in children with rheumatological diseases (JIA, DSS, Vasculitis) | B1 - Basic level | |||||||
| 2 | Musculoskeletal screening in children | B1 - Basic level | |||||||
| 3 | Pediatric musculoskeletal screening (pGALS). | B2 - Intermediate level | |||||||
| 4 | Resuscitation of children of different ages | A - Beginner level | |||||||
| 5 | Resuscitation of children of different ages | B1 - Basic level | |||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | E - studijās ievietotie mācību materiāli./E - learning materials | ||||||||
| 2 | Kliegman, Robert M., St Geme, Joseph W., Blum, Nathan J., et.al. Nelson Texbook of Pediatrics. 2020, Elsevier Inc. | ||||||||
| 3 | RSU tiešsaistes datu bāzes: brīvpieejas datubāzes (PubMed), uz pierādījumiem balstītas medicīnas datubāzes- ClinicalKEY, DynaMedPlus./RSU online databases | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Kliegman, Robert M., Lye, Patricia S., Bordini, Brett J., et.al. Nelson Pediatric symtom- based diagnosis. 2022, Elsevier, Inc. | ||||||||
| 2 | Marcdante, Karen J., Kliegman, Robert M. Nelson Essentials of pediatrics. 2023, Elsevier, Inc. | ||||||||
